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Blogger Noah Smith reflects on the diminishing influence of punditry in an era of populism, AI, and monetization, arguing that while blogging once allowed him to inject ideas into the discourse with speed and breadth, re…
Figma CEO Dylan Field said creative professionals should not fear AI-generated design, arguing that AI produces average work while humans can create something fundamentally new. He made the remarks at a San Francisco eve…
Amazon has pulled distribution of the Luca Guadagnino-directed film 'Artificial' after completion, reportedly due to concerns over its critical portrayal of OpenAI, in which Amazon holds a major equity stake. The move ma…
Cory Doctorow argued on The Atlantic's podcast that AI companies have lured investors with overhyped claims and accounting gimmicks, predicting the resulting bubble will burst with economic fallout rivaling the pandemic …
Instacart's Caper Carts, equipped with cameras, scales, and location tracking, are now deployed in over 100 U.S. cities across 15 states, collecting real-time shopping data and serving targeted ads from brands like Gener…
IBM CHRO Nickle LaMoreaux said AI will eliminate relatively few jobs overall, as productivity gains will create new roles that don't yet exist. She advised workers to focus on outcomes and AI application skills rather th…
A researcher mapping the AI safety ecosystem for MATS Research discovered unexpected organizations, including the Human Line Project, which collects stories of AI psychosis, and Impact Academy, which helps professionals …
Hunter Biden challenged Donald Trump Jr. to a cage match anywhere except the White House lawn, criticizing the UFC Freedom 250 event held there as an inappropriate use of a sacred public space. Biden made the challenge t…
AI tools are making bad engineers faster without improving their judgment, according to a developer who argues that AI amplifies existing behaviors rather than changing them. The author observes that AI agents replicate …
Coefficient has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for global health and wellbeing projects that account for the potential impacts of transformative AI, funding research, policy development, and implementation to impro…
Confidential Containers, a CNCF Sandbox Project, provides open-source, vendor-neutral technology for protecting sensitive AI models, regulated data, and supply chains using hardware-based confidential computing. The proj…
Researchers from Peking University developed ECG-R1, a multimodal vision-language model trained with reinforcement learning to differentiate ischemic from nonischemic T-wave inversion on ECGs. The model, accepted at ICML…
A cautious optimist argues that AI safety, interpretability, bias, and alignment are as critical as raw capability, warning that the same technology enabling vaccine research could also design pathogens. The author empha…
Google's AI Overview is treating fictional entities from the SCP Foundation horror wiki as real, with no disclaimers. The AI's pattern-matching mistakes the wiki's deadpan bureaucratic style for factual documentation, le…
A survey of US health-care workers found 70% of nurses and 77% of physicians fear losing skills due to AI over-reliance. A study of Polish endoscopists showed adenoma detection rates dropped from 28.4% to 22.4% when AI w…
IEEE launched a five-course online program, Large Language Models Demystified, to help technical professionals master LLMs for engineering tasks. The program covers APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, data security, an…
A blogger shares their favorite talks from re:publica 26, a German conference on internet topics, digital rights, and media culture. The talks cover AI agents, counter-power against far-right polling, AI-generated right-…
An AI-generated album featuring the late Twin Cities rapper Eyedea, born Michael Larsen, has been released using thousands of pages of his handwritten lyrics and old recordings. The project, assembled by longtime friend …
VladTV published an article on June 19, 2026, summarizing a members-only video interview in which AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy repeated his longstanding claim that there is a 99.9% chance artificial intelligence…
A study by IIIT Hyderabad finds that government procurement contracts and tenders are shaping AI governance in India more than formal regulation, embedding requirements on standards, accountability, compliance, and perfo…