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Mozilla's inaugural 'State of Open Source AI' report, based on a global survey of over 950 developers, finds that the performance gap between open models and top proprietary systems like ChatGPT and Claude has narrowed t…
The era of the average knowledge worker has ended, according to Braden Kelley and Art Inteligencia in a July 5, 2026 analysis, as the Personal AI Renaissance creates a divide between unaugmented humans and AI-amplified i…
Venture-backed firms are acquiring support, finance-ops and managed-services providers and re-platforming them around AI agents, shifting to outcome-based pricing that creates governance and continuity risks for enterpri…
AI-generated answers can resurrect outdated negative articles, making them more influential and longer-lasting than traditional search results, according to SEO experts. A single decade-old customer-service complaint aga…
Samsung Health now deletes user data if they opt out of AI training, forcing users to choose between data retention and contributing to AI model training. The policy shift impacts user trust and compliance for health app…
South Korean prosecutors have filed the country's first criminal case involving AI-powered smart glasses used to cheat in a national qualification examination, indicting a man in his 40s on charges of violating the Natio…
Sen. Mitch McConnell's office released a photo Sunday night showing the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican smiling beside his wife, Elaine Chao, while holding a Washington Post Sports section, but the image failed to quell …
A machine learning practitioner with 20 years of experience argues that the current AI boom, driven by large language models and chatbots, is a mania that fails to justify its social and environmental costs. The author c…
A tech commentator argues that the biggest danger of AI is that builders use it to avoid reality, building excessive products without user feedback. The only way to win in the AI era is to relentlessly chase truth by fac…
The Script frontman Danny O'Donoghue has endorsed a Sinn Féin motion to protect Irish artists' copyright in the era of AI, saying 125 of his songs were scraped by five major AI companies for training, calling it "intelle…
A coalition of book publishers and authors, including Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, and novelist Scott Turow, filed a class action lawsuit against Google in the U.S. District Court for the Southern Dis…
A study using log data from Japanese junior high students using a grammar app found that AI-generated English learning content can improve performance, with multiple-choice questions requiring the least effort and cloze …
Researchers introduced MCLASH, a multilingual benchmark for culturally sensitive AI moral decision-making, along with MET and MET-D methods to improve cultural reasoning. MET-D, a self-distillation training stage, achiev…
A study analyzing 1,117 COVID-19 treatment articles found that Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems can amplify ideological biases in large language model outputs, with the strongest bias transfer occurring at mo…
LLM watermarking is emerging as a critical technology for ensuring transparency and accountability in AI-generated content, addressing provenance ambiguity and content laundering risks. The field faces challenges in stan…
ResearchQA, a new benchmark for citation-grounded AI, evaluates whether AI-generated answers are backed by verifiable sources using a dataset of 6,211 question-answering pairs from 494 open-access papers. The benchmark r…
Check Point Research's second annual AI Security Report warns that artificial intelligence has crossed from an assistant to an operator in cyberattacks, now directly executing intrusions with minimal human direction, bas…
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned on July 12, 2026, that artificial intelligence poses cyber threats as the single biggest risk, while geopolitical tensions involving Iran, Ukraine, and China could trigger an economi…
Freya Beamish, chief economist at GlobalData TS Lombard, is urging the Federal Reserve to tighten monetary policy now to curb inflationary pressures from the AI boom, arguing that AI-driven capital spending is generating…
Meta abruptly removed a feature on July 10 that let users generate AI images using other people's public photos without notification, after the feature was rolled out on July 7 and faced heavy criticism over privacy conc…