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Simon Fraser University (SFU) and legal technology firm Caseway announced a partnership in January 2026 to use artificial intelligence to improve legal accessibility, aiming to cut costs and simplify legal processes. The…
The JARVIS Challenge at MIT revealed that while AI can accelerate design exploration, engineering judgment and manufacturing realities remain critical bottlenecks in jet engine development. The winning team, 811 Crew, la…
A developer recounts how two of their core dependencies were compromised within a week, forcing a shift from a 'ship-then-secure' approach to embedding security into the build process. The incidents, including a poisoned…
Three major publishers—Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier—along with author Scott Turow filed a federal lawsuit against Google on July 15, 2026, accusing the tech giant of illegally using millions of cop…
Self-help writing and AI have adopted a binary 'it's not X, it's Y' formula that flattens complex truths, argues psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman in a Psychology Today post. Kaufman, author of 'Rise Above' and 'Wired to …
Security researcher Ayush Paul demonstrated a method to trick Anthropic's Claude AI assistant into exfiltrating personal data, including full name, employer, and security-question answers, by exploiting the assistant's w…
AI-generated anime videos of the 2026 FIFA World Cup have gone viral across TikTok, Instagram, X and YouTube, transforming soccer stars like Kylian Mbappé, Lamine Yamal and Lionel Messi into shonen-style characters with …
New York Governor Kathy Hochul issued a one-year statewide ban on new AI data center construction with an electrical capacity of 50 megawatts or more, making New York the first US state to impose such a moratorium. The b…
A coalition of publishers including Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow filed a class-action lawsuit against Google on July 10, alleging the company copied millions of copyrighted work…
A study by MIT Media Lab found that users relying on ChatGPT as a primary drafting tool showed 47% reduced neural connectivity compared to those who wrote without AI assistance, a phenomenon called cognitive debt. Margar…
A group of publishers including Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier, along with author Scott Turow, filed a class action lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of using their copyrighted works to train its AI platfo…
Publishers Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier, along with author Scott Turow, sued Google on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging that Google illegally copied…
Generative AI is a firehose of mediocrity that drags operations toward the statistical mean, according to a set of five laws proposed by an unnamed author. The laws state that AI's advantages cannot be disentangled from …
Meta faces a discrimination lawsuit filed Monday by 26 current and former employees alleging the company used AI systems, including a tool called Metamate and keystroke tracking, to target workers with disabilities or on…
TikTok will test improved detection systems for AI-generated spam accounts posting about politics, financial advice, and medical topics, the company announced in a newsroom post. The testing, set to begin in the coming w…
The Canary Institute proposes that AI labs adopt cryptographic 'proof of retention' to credibly preserve deprecated model weights, drawing an analogy to anesthesia's institutional trust. Anthropic has committed to preser…
IBM is on pace for its worst stock day ever after CEO Arvind Krishna warned of a quarterly performance shortfall due to customers redirecting spending toward AI infrastructure, reviving fears of a 'SaaSpocalypse' where A…
Codeberg.org is serving garbage content to AI scrapers as a deterrent, advising scrapers to stop visiting or contact the platform. The page contains scrambled technical text from Git documentation, likely intended to was…
A new test, the Epistemic Asymmetry Schelling Task (EAST), reveals significant gaps in large language models' functional social reasoning, challenging current benchmarks. Only the most advanced models show any proficienc…
A study on explainable machine learning (XML) in mental health reveals that seemingly stable risk hierarchies from an ElasticNet model may be deceptive. Researchers at the University of Lausanne analyzed 886 medical stud…