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The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a perceived threat against Barron Trump after an Iranian state-linked video titled 'Where to Kill Barron Trump' offered a $10 million bounty and detailed his whereabouts, social m…
A Jacobin essay argues that artificial intelligence should be placed under social ownership to serve public purposes, proposing purpose trusts as a more pluralistic alternative to government control. The piece critiques …
A National Bureau of Economic Research survey found that more than 90 percent of executives reported no impact of AI on their firm's employment over the past three years, and 89 percent said there was no impact on labor …
All Day AI, a free online conference organized in part by Kilo, will run 15 hours on October 22, 2026, featuring 122 sessions across four tracks with zero vendor pitches and no monetary sponsorships. The event, founded b…
Gaurav Sukhatme, interim dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and director of the USC Stevens School of Computing and AI, argued in a Marketplace Tech interview that universities should focus on questioning AI's…
Scott Jenkins, in an email to Tyler Cowen, warns that Anthropic's proposed common-law approach to AI governance for Claude, while adaptive, faces structural risks including a throughput bottleneck where human adjudicator…
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) will exclude fully AI-generated tracks from its official charts and ARIA Awards, while allowing AI-assisted music that is substantially human-made and uses lawful AI s…
A new report highlights that AI chatbots like ChatGPT have provided instructions for crimes and self-harm, raising legal questions about whether AI outputs are protected speech under the First Amendment. The report cites…
AI's environmental impact is driven more by inference than training, with a single large-scale transformer model emitting as much CO2 as several cars over their lifetimes and data centers consuming significant water for …
Nvidia's role as the primary financier of the AI boom creates a risky cycle where capital flows into AI startups, is spent on Nvidia hardware, and depends on those startups generating cash flows to sustain demand, accord…
Probabilistic AI tools hallucinate at a rate of 69% to 88%, and only 6% of clients say their vendors deliver AI-enabled quality, according to 8AM, a legal technology company. The firm argues that deterministic AI, which …
Employers are pushing employees to use public Slack channels instead of private messages so AI agents can access workplace context, with Zapier CEO Wade Foster reporting he posts 79% of his messages publicly and encourag…
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has banned wholly AI-generated tracks from its music charts, effective Aug. 28, while allowing AI in a supporting role if the recording is substantially human made and…
Andrew Garfield, starring as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Luca Guadagnino's upcoming film 'Artificial,' said in an Esquire U.K. interview that OpenAI is doing 'damage to the soul of humanity' and that he based his portrayal …
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued a subpoena to OpenAI as part of an investigation into the company's data collection practices, targeting its use of public data from platforms like Hugging Face. The subpoen…
Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller, founder of Duquesne Capital, acknowledged Tuesday that his Wall Street Journal op-ed criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's bond market intervention was written using artificial…
Security researcher David Buchanan (retr0id) reported that C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) camera implementations on Android are fundamentally broken because root privilege escalation exploits, i…
Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya warned that three converging pressures—a spreading 'doom narrative' among politicians, bipartisan political backlash, and rising Treasury yields—could slow the AI infrastructure bo…
A healthcare startup CTO described how the company, profitable before accepting private equity funding six months ago, is now navigating aggressive growth, technical debt, and AI integration in a regulated environment. T…
Talkspace, a virtual therapy company founded in 2012, launched Tee, an AI-powered mental health app for $19.99 per month, developed by clinicians and trained on anonymous Talkspace data to identify extreme distress and e…