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Amazon Studios is refusing to release the Luca Guadagnino film 'Artificial,' which portrays tech billionaires Sam Altman and Elon Musk negatively, due to Jeff Bezos's business ties with Altman and a $50 billion investmen…
Yann LeCun, a prominent AI researcher, criticized Elon Musk's xAI as a 'failure' and warned that AI labs risk causing a 'big bubble explosion.' The remarks were made in a CNBC article that is currently inaccessible due t…
US Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced a bill to give the American public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies, citing the need for public control over AI's benefits. The proposal comes as OpenAI and Anthr…
John Edwards, the UK's Information Commissioner and top data and AI regulator, resigned on Friday following a workplace investigation into his conduct, marking the first resignation in the office's 40-year history. His d…
CNBC reports that AI credit markets face a risk of a 'violent' correction, according to Man Group, urging investors to remain clear-eyed about the potential downturn.
Holden Karnofsky, a prominent figure in AI safety, compiled a list of ways AI safety efforts could be net negative, acknowledging that actions intended to improve safety might inadvertently cause harm. He estimates a 60%…
New benchmarks reveal that larger AI models like GPT-5.5 and DeepSeek V4 Pro hallucinate significantly more than smaller open-weight models, with GLM-5.2 achieving a 28% hallucination rate compared to GPT-5.5's 86%. The …
Google's AI Overviews are presenting entries from the SCP Foundation, a collaborative horror fan-fiction project, as factual information. The AI fails to note that the content is fictional, despite clear disclaimers on t…
Former Take-Two and Zynga AI lead Dr. Luke Dicken warned that generative AI hype risks backlash, saying it is 'poisoning the well.' Take-Two retired its AI group earlier in 2026 amid restructuring, while Dicken urged att…
Imperial County, California, supervisors voted to impose an emergency moratorium on new data center approvals, halting a planned $10 billion AI complex that would have consumed 750,000 gallons of cooling water daily and …
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's AI strategy, 'AI for All,' reframes opposition to AI and data centers as a lack of AI literacy, sparking criticism. Protesters in Vancouver have demonstrated against Telus's planned …
Neuroscientists from Université de Montréal and Johns Hopkins University warn that people risk mistaking AI intelligence for actual consciousness, noting that advanced chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude can appear fluent a…
New research from Kapwing reveals that 59% of videos served to a new TikTok user's For You page are AI slop, three times the rate found on YouTube. The study also found that 57.4% of TikTok videos aimed at children are A…
Norway has implemented a near-total ban on artificial intelligence in elementary schools, effective 2026, citing concerns over data privacy and child development. The policy restricts AI tools in classrooms for students …
Meta forced roughly 6,500 engineers into a new unit called Agent Data Optimization to manufacture training data for AI models, a move employees describe as soul-crushing and liken to a gulag. The involuntary reassignment…
Palworld publishing lead John 'Bucky' Buckley stated that the developers avoid using generative AI because gamers do not want it, calling the matter a closed conversation. In an interview with GamesRadar+, Buckley argued…
The U.S. labor market showed a worrying signal as nonfarm payrolls dropped by 92,000, with AI reshaping employment trends.
Amazon MGM Studios has dropped the upcoming Sam Altman biopic 'Artificial' months after Amazon invested billions in OpenAI. The film, directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Andrew Garfield, is being shopped to other st…
The AI industry's focus on model intelligence is becoming irrelevant as trust emerges as the true bottleneck. Adoption fails not due to capability but human willingness to hand over decisions, and national investments in…
Noam Shazeer, a star Google AI researcher, has left the company again to join OpenAI, just two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to bring him back via a 'hackquisition' of Character.ai. The deal structure, which allow…