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A Brown University economics professor found that about 50 students used AI to cheat on a midterm exam, scoring an average of 96% compared to the historical 65-80%, but the university's leadership has not responded to hi…
A growing number of non-tech users express frustration with AI being forced into products, creating demand for services that let them disable or avoid AI. Companies like Kagi are capitalizing on this trend by offering ad…
AI chatbots are increasingly conducting early-stage job interviews for white-collar roles, with companies like ManpowerGroup, Coinbase, and Zapier adopting the technology to screen more candidates amid a surge in applica…
Half of parents worry their children rely on AI too much, according to a Deloitte survey of 1,150 parents of school-aged children. Only 22% of schools provide approved generative AI tools, yet nearly 30% of children use …
France's antitrust regulator is finalizing an investigation into Nvidia over alleged anti-competitive practices tied to its GPU dominance and CUDA software ecosystem, with potential fines of up to 10% of global revenue. …
Former OpenAI and Google DeepMind researcher Phil Chen told Business Insider on July 9, 2026 that AI raises the value of problem selection and resource allocation over task execution, advising workers to build reputation…
A new poll of nearly 3,800 Steam players by GameDiscoverCo reveals that 43% of PC gamers have no major issue with AI disclosures on Steam, but only 17% believe developers are fully transparent about AI use in games. The …
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth revealed that a researcher moved sensitive employee keystroke and mouse-tracking data to an unauthorized internal location, forcing the company to pause its Model Capability Initiative. The progr…
The United States faces a growing risk of losing the AI talent and productivity war due to a severe shortage of skilled STEM professionals, producing fewer than 820,000 STEM graduates annually compared to China's 3.57 mi…
Jonathan Michael Langford is building Jack, a local-first autonomous agent designed to prioritize privacy and security. The project aims to move beyond chain-of-thought reasoning in AI development.
OtterSec is committing $100,000 to a fund aimed at preserving the competitiveness of Capture The Flag (CTF) competitions, which are being undermined by AI models that can solve challenges instantly. The company argues th…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his software engineers prefer building AI agents over writing Python code, arguing that the shift creates jobs rather than eliminating them. Huang positioned the trend as a promotion for engi…
A Japanese nonprofit found over 43,000 AI deepfakes of celebrities created in two months last year, causing copyright losses estimated at ¥2 billion to ¥4.5 billion. The Japan Publicity Right Protection Organization (JAP…
A rare bacterium, Cupriavidus gilardii, was found in wastewater discharged during construction of Meta's $800 million AI data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, prompting a months-long cleanup and new environmental regulations…
A new study by Bean et al. (2025) finds a 61 percentage point gap between LLM performance on healthcare benchmarks and real-world deployment, where patients using LLMs as medical assistants showed no improvement in self-…
Recruitment firms like Randstad are pivoting to specialized AI roles as generative AI automates routine hiring tasks, with demand for AI solutions leads up 226% and process automation specialists up 196%. The industry be…
Meta is testing a 'super sensing' mode for its Ray-Ban smart glasses that could enable continuous environmental recording, raising privacy concerns. The company sold over 7 million pairs in 2025, signaling growing consum…
AI is turning the most productive engineers into single points of failure by removing the collaborative friction that once spread knowledge across teams, according to a LeadDev.com analysis. The tool that makes a 10x eng…
A developer explores the rise of personal AI as an eternal archivist, arguing that while it offers unprecedented self-awareness through objective behavioral analysis, it also threatens human identity by eliminating the r…
A developer argues that AI-generated content is not less authentic than human-written slop, because online emptiness predates AI. The post contends that friction, not authenticity, has been lost, and that the real proble…