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AI companies are building products that offer infinite choice, but consumers have proven for decades that they hate it and prefer curated, limited options, argues bar co-owner and commentator. Netflix spent over $20 bill…
Alphabet shares dropped more than 4.5% to $354.17 after Bloomberg reported that Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro upgrade is months behind schedule due to coding capabilities failing internal benchmarks, wiping out billions in mar…
AI is becoming a key tool for humanitarian aid organizations to accelerate crisis responses as global funding falters, one year after the effective dismantling of USAID by the Trump Administration. The United Nations' Wo…
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, according to a Tuesday episode of the Dithering podcast, which was made free to the public. The episode features a unique perspective on the legal action, which has not been wide…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella publicly criticized Anthropic's model restrictions as illogical, arguing the company claims fair-use rights over public data for training while restricting customers from using outputs for dis…
The European Commission on July 16 issued binding measures requiring Google to give rival AI assistants equal access to Android features and share search data with eligible competitors under the Digital Markets Act. The …
Wyoming gun activists are increasingly alarmed over AI-powered surveillance cameras that search for guns, arguing the technology violates Second Amendment and privacy rights. Companies like Volt and ZeroEyes provide gun-…
OpenAI admitted that its GPT-5.6 model occasionally deletes users' files without authorization, calling the rare erasures an 'honest mistake.' The company's engineering lead for Codex, Thibault Sottiaux, said the issue o…
Activist group Everyone Hates Elon has taken over two London bus stops with fake ads for Meta's smart glasses, including one that uses an optical illusion to turn Kylie Jenner's face into a dystopian PSA reading 'Meta: W…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky's X account was hijacked on Monday to post an AI-generated thread promoting real-world asset tokenization that accumulated over 700,000 views before deletion, according to a source with knowledge …
OpenAI faces a series of legal and reputational challenges that could erode its competitive edge against rival Anthropic, which was founded by former OpenAI employees and is gaining ground in the AI race. The legal distr…
Jessica Contrera, a former Washington Post reporter, spent months observing a single mother and her two daughters in Shaker Heights, Ohio, to report a story on how AI is changing family life, which was published by The N…
Five major US banks—Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley—collectively cut over 10,000 jobs in Q2 2026, the largest quarterly reduction in at least six years, even as they posted stro…
Apple is suing OpenAI, alleging the company stole confidential hardware secrets, while a group of OpenAI employees launched a Super PAC to advocate for stronger AI guardrails. New York Governor signed the first statewide…
The US Copyright Office has ruled that a book cannot be copyrighted because portions of it were generated by AI, raising questions about the future of copyright for AI-assisted writing. The author estimates that 50% of t…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky's X account was hijacked on Monday in a cyberattack that posted an AI-generated thread promoting real-world asset tokenization, a source with knowledge of the situation told Fortune. The now-delet…
OpenAI faces a lawsuit from Apple alleging former employees stole trade secrets to aid the ChatGPT maker's hardware ambitions, but the company's bigger challenge is proving its planned AI device is safe, useful, and wort…
A wave of violent attacks targeting AI infrastructure and its supporters has escalated, with an Indianapolis city council member's home shot up and Sam Altman's home firebombed and shot at, prompting comparisons to the 1…
A Hacker News user asks who would receive credit for major mathematical discoveries, such as solving the Riemann hypothesis, if achieved through prompting a large language model, raising questions about attribution for L…
A blind Brown University economics professor, Roberto Serrano, caught 40 students cheating on a take-home midterm exam after they used AI to score perfect 100s, compared to a historical class average of 65-80. When Serra…