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Martin Puchner argues that writers' resistance to AI overlooks the shared foundation of language between humans and machines, urging a reconsideration of the relationship.
Meta's Oversight Board will review a case involving an AI-generated video of a female campaigner that falsely depicted her giving health advice, after the company left the post up. The video, which manipulated a news int…
A Hacker News user warns that the rapid pace of AI development, termed 'tokenmaxxing,' resembles mass hypomania, with ideas being churned and built at unprecedented speed, potentially leading to societal dissociation.
G7 leaders met in Évian-les-Bains to discuss AI regulation and cooperation amid competition with China, hosting tech executives including Demis Hassabis, Arthur Mensch, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei for a working lunch. T…
Chinese sci-fi writer Hao Jingfang revealed that half of her latest book was written with AI, sparking debate over AI-generated literature. Hao stated readers cannot distinguish AI-written parts, while critics argue it u…
A founder claims to write 10,000 lines of code per day using AI, but critics argue this reflects a misguided focus on quantity over quality, producing buggy, unmaintainable code that undermines true engineering craftsman…
A developer discovered that Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, secretly stored 43 MB of conversation data, including code snippets, file paths, and even password queries, in local directories without user notification.…
Arizona's data center industry, the second-largest in the US, is consuming 1.5 GW of power and 385 million gallons of water annually, with projections of tripling electricity use and water consumption surging up to 3.8 b…
Warfare is decimating animal populations worldwide, with conflicts in Ukraine, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Sudan causing mass displacement, habitat destruction, and population crashes. A study of African wildlife found hum…
AI-generated code is creating a new form of technical debt called cognitive debt, where developers lose understanding of how and why code was written, according to a former hardware engineer. Google and Meta report high …
Anthropic suspended its Fable 5 AI model within three days after U.S. government concerns over security protocols, highlighting a growing rift between U.S. regulatory policies and East Asian market realities. Japan's Sof…
The UK Home Office is using two AI tools, Asylum Case Summarisation (ACS) and Asylum Policy Search (APS), both powered by GPT-4o, in asylum decision-making without informing applicants or publishing required impact asses…
A panel discussion published June 18, 2026 concluded that agentic AI is shifting the conversation in financial services from automation toward decision support, forcing credit unions to balance speed with trust and accou…
A new study from the Wharton School at UPenn introduces 'cognitive surrender,' where AI users accept AI-generated answers without independent verification. In experiments with 1,372 participants, 73% accepted wrong answe…
AI models used for online hate speech detection vary widely in how they identify and classify hate speech, according to a 2025 University of Pennsylvania study. The study found significant inconsistencies across systems …
Anthropic employees and industry experts allege the Trump administration is targeting the AI company with unreasonable restrictions, including a de facto ban on its latest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national se…
ITV faced accusations of sexism after female pundit Emma Hayes was placed in a kitchen-like set with a chalkboard for tactical analysis during England's World Cup win against Croatia, while male pundits typically use dig…
French President Emmanuel Macron urged the US to grant broader access to Anthropic's AI models, following a US order to block foreign nationals from accessing them. G7 leaders discussed a "trusted partners" scheme to all…
Klarna is shifting customer service to gig workers after its AI chatbot failed to fully replace human agents, piloting a hybrid model where AI handles two-thirds of inquiries and contractors handle the rest. The buy-now-…
Data center owner Doug Sevey went viral after accusing Google of misleading the public about its proposed Iowa data center, which he says would guzzle water and harm local groundwater. Sevey, CEO of Enseva, argues the pr…