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Researchers at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research have restored hand movement and the sense of touch to Keith Thomas, a man paralysed from the chest down, using a "double neural bypass" that combines a brain-c…
Apple has emerged as a winner in the AI race by carefully balancing enthusiasm with caution, avoiding the legal and reputational troubles plaguing rivals like OpenAI. The new AI-powered Siri has become a genuinely useful…
A developer describes how a bug in a personal project revealed the hidden cost of AI-generated code: a 'debt' of understanding that must eventually be repaid. After weeks of relying on AI to write code without fully comp…
Verizon is laying off about 3,000 retail workers and transferring 274 corporate stores to independent owners under CEO Dan Schulman, who expects AI to replace a large percentage of customer service work. The cuts follow …
XAI has sued 67-year-old Terry Wayne Harwood of South Carolina, who already faces criminal charges for child sexual exploitation, alleging he used fake Grok accounts from December 2025 to February 2026 to generate or att…
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk to new users on July 30, putting the 21-year-old platform into maintenance mode after a 2023 study found that 33–46% of workers were using large language models to complete tasks, underm…
A NASDAQ-listed AI company hired Bulaev to design guardrails for employee AI-generated LinkedIn posts after discovering that employees use Claude to write content, risking brand damage and securities law violations. Bula…
EDB Chief Engineering Officer Max Romanenko said AI agents will increase the global workforce by 34%+ in less than three years and require a sovereign-first architecture with unified data and governance at the data layer…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has introduced tenant-protection measures targeting misleading AI-generated images in real estate listings, requiring platforms like Zillow and StreetEasy to disclose any digital modifi…
A Meta Oversight Board study released Thursday found that major AI chatbots, including those from Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI, are more likely to refuse to generate political criticism of restrictive leaders or governmen…
CNET reports that most AI chatbots, including Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude, default to using user data for model training, but users can opt out through settings. For Gemini, users must disable Web & App Activi…
Synthetic databases can serve as audit logs for AI models, enabling explainability to regulators without retaining real customer data, according to a technical guide. The approach stores model snapshots, synthetic data g…
Warp CEO Zach Lloyd says allowing job candidates to use AI tools during interviews has improved hiring by revealing judgment and problem-solving skills rather than prompt engineering ability. At Warp, candidates build re…
ProductMind founder warns that overreliance on AI, especially with Anthropic's Fable 5 model, can atrophy skills without intentional unaided practice, citing a programmer's paradox where knowledge persists but capability…
Justin McLeod, founder of Hinge, has raised $18 million for his new AI-powered matchmaking company Overtone, which aims to replace traditional dating apps with curated introductions based on relationship science and user…
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a proposal requiring real estate agents and listing sites to disclose the use of AI or digitally altered images in rental listings, part of a broader tenant-protection package. The…
A New York Times journalist discovered an unauthorized biography of herself on Amazon, written by an AI and published under a pseudonym, highlighting the growing problem of AI-generated 'slop' books flooding online marke…
Extinction Rebellion activists sabotaged a Microsoft data centre construction site in Amsterdam on July 16 by throwing balloons filled with a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, acetic acid, salt, and acrylic paint onto the re…
Vibe coding — using LLMs to generate software from natural-language prompts — is here to stay, argues an unnamed commentator, because non-technical users now experience the thrill of getting something working on screen, …
Half of enterprises (50%) have shipped an AI agent that passed internal evaluations but caused a customer-facing failure in the past year, according to a VentureBeat Pulse Research survey of 157 organizations with 100+ e…