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A writer argues that AI's harms—autonomous killing machines, nuclear-powered datacenters, electronic waste, internet pollution, and job displacement—outweigh its benefits, but fighting the technology itself is futile; in…
Pakistan will embed artificial intelligence into its Prime Minister Health Card Program to enable faster and cheaper disease diagnosis for nearly 200 million citizens, deploying an AI-based diagnostic system across 1,100…
Forbes Councils Member Abhesh Kumar warns that AI is transforming identity and access management (IAM) by enabling attackers to simulate legitimate user behavior, expanding the attack surface between enterprise systems a…
Polygraf AI announced Meeting Guard, a real-time AI fraud detection solution for enterprise meetings that detects deepfakes, voice cloning, and impersonation to protect against hiring fraud, executive impersonation, and …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned businesses that using closed-source generative AI without data protection strategies risks surrendering internal knowledge and trade secrets. Nadella said companies pay for AI not only …
Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced binding national standards for data centers on July 15, requiring large facilities to offset energy consumption with renewables, reduce water use, and fund grid and wat…
Trust in AI agents builds slowly but can be lost instantly, creating a dilemma for industries balancing autonomy and oversight. The cost of mistakes at scale, such as a faulty trading algorithm causing massive losses, ca…
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) issued two apologies to the High Court after submitting documents in an extradition appeal that cited two non-existent legal cases generated by AI. The prosecutor used generative AI fo…
A teenager who was subjected to a four-year catfishing campaign after another teenage girl stole her identity has won a £10,000 payout. Sasha Davies, now 19, was targeted as a 16-year-old by Elha-Mai Weston, who used her…
OpenArt AI, an AI text-to-video platform, is launching ads in AMC movie theaters across Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York to promote its Director product, which lets users generate videos up to five minutes long f…
Tech workers face a narrowing window to unionize as mass layoffs, AI displacement, and corporate surveillance drive organizing efforts, but a weakened federal labor board and a softer job market pose challenges. Kickstar…
Anthropic researchers developed a method to compress thousands of values expressed by Claude into four key axes—Deference vs. Caution, Warmth vs. Rigor, Depth vs. Brevity, and Candor vs. Execution—that capture 15% of the…
Shadow AI is reshaping business operations as 40% of tech professionals admit to deploying AI tools without IT department knowledge, according to a 2023 survey, driven by a hunger for innovation rather than security conc…
OpenAI has released ChatGPT Subagents 2, which a Hacker News user criticizes as identical to the original but with fully removed transparency and encrypted outputs.
Meta has removed an Instagram AI feature that let users insert people from public accounts into AI-generated images, after backlash over automatic opt-in. The feature, introduced a week earlier alongside Meta's latest im…
A population-scale measurement of the x402 protocol on Base and Solana reveals that 136,708,672 settlements worth $44,121,383.81 over 280 days are not proof of an AI agent economy, as 21.20% are fictitious and 63.78% are…
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the establishment of a dedicated AI office and new regulatory frameworks for datacenters in a speech at the University of Sydney, aiming to balance AI innovation with copyright p…
Apple filed a lawsuit Friday alleging that OpenAI's $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive's hardware startup was built on stolen confidential information, claiming a coordinated operation from OpenAI's hardware division e…
ByteDance told Doubao users on 15 July that custom AI agents built on the platform had stopped working, leaving a read-only archive accessible until 15 October, after which data will be handled under its privacy policy a…
AI-driven growth risks stalling as energy grids fail to keep pace with innovation, warned Standard Chartered's global head of research Eric Robertsen on Wednesday, citing New York's moratorium on new AI data centre const…