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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he left OpenAI because he didn't trust Sam Altman, stating 'why argue with someone when you don't trust them?' in a Bloomberg interview. Amodei expressed peace with the rivalry, saying the…
AI tools make individual workers faster but shift the burden of fact-checking and editing to reviewers, causing overall company productivity to stagnate. The time saved by one person is transferred to many others, who mu…
CtxGov, a tool that analyzes AI memory files to generate influence-boundary reports, was announced on Hacker News but its site returned a 404 error, indicating the project may not be publicly accessible yet.
A Pew Research Center survey of 5,119 US adults found that 49% now use AI chatbots, but 40% believe AI will harm society, 67% distrust government regulation, and 59% distrust companies to develop AI responsibly. ChatGPT …
Lock-in risk research remains neglected despite its potential for high impact, according to a new analysis by Formation Research. The post outlines threat models where AI could cause persistent negative cultural stabilit…
Veteran entertainment lawyer Ken Ziffren, a partner at Ziffren Brittenham, reflected on more than 50 years in entertainment law as UCLA's Entertainment Symposium marked its 50th anniversary. Ziffren, who launched the sym…
Two 14-year-old boys in Edmonton, Alberta face criminal charges for using artificial intelligence to create sexual exploitation images of female classmates, marking Canada's second such prosecution in six months. The cha…
College graduates across the U.S. are booing pro-AI commencement speakers, signaling widespread rejection of the technology among Gen Z. At multiple universities, students heckled executives like Eric Schmidt and Sundar …
Only 16% of Americans believe AI will positively impact society over the next two decades, according to a Pew Research Center survey. The gap between public skepticism and industry optimism is widening, with 50% of US ad…
A new Pew Research poll finds that 63% of Americans believe AI is advancing too quickly, even as 49% report using chatbots—up from 33% in 2024. Only 16% think AI will have a positive societal impact, with younger users m…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ordered remaining employees to participate in a three-day AI hackathon to rebuild 'hacker culture' weeks after laying off 8,000 workers. The move was met with employee backlash, with internal mes…
Uinta County commissioners unanimously approved a conditional-use permit for the 1.25-gigawatt Prometheus Hyperscale data center on 506 acres near Evanston, Wyoming, despite public skepticism about potential economic ris…
A restaurant owner who initially resisted online bookings learned that technology should handle transactional tasks so humans can focus on building relationships. Brené Brown's marble jar metaphor illustrates that trust …
A developer warns that defining human dignity by productive output becomes dangerous as AI outperforms humans on measurable tasks. The author argues that human worth must be decoupled from productivity, citing historical…
Only 16% of Americans believe AI will have a positive impact on society over the next 20 years, according to a Pew Research study. 40% expect negative effects, and 67% doubt the government will regulate AI meaningfully. …
Young Palestinian women in Gaza are learning to use artificial intelligence to create short films and tell stories about their life during the war, despite challenges from frequent power cuts and poor internet access.
China's State Council issued a 2026-2030 employment blueprint that orders research into a monitoring system to track how artificial intelligence creates and destroys jobs, using data such as industrial electricity use, s…
The Conversation published an article by Clara Macarena Ponce Romero on June 17, 2026, warning that young children's routine interactions with voice-based AI like Alexa and Siri may affect language development, including…
A new study reported by The Conversation finds that agrivoltaics—colocating solar panels with cropland—could generate enough electricity in Canada to eliminate fossil fuels from the national grid while using less than 1%…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that Chinese AI models are 6 to 12 months away from matching US capabilities, specifically citing 'Mythos-class' AI that can find thousands of software vulnerabilities in hours. The US C…