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McKinsey & Company CFO Yuval Atsmon revealed in a Reuters podcast that the consulting giant is aggressively deploying AI internally while managing soaring infrastructure costs and unpredictable token bills, and argued th…
GDPR, enacted in 2018, is struggling to regulate modern AI systems because the law assumes data exists in discrete, deletable rows, while AI models absorb data into billions of non-mappable parameters, making rights like…
The Sentient Futures Project Incubator is accepting applications for its Fall 2026 cohort, a 10-week program running from August 31 to November 9, with a deadline of August 9, 2026. The program offers mentorship and supp…
Federal Labor MP Ed Husic warned his party against watering down copyright law for AI companies, arguing that allowing big tech to self-regulate is a path 'doomed to failure.' Husic's comments come ahead of Prime Ministe…
At Microsoft Build, Sarah Bird, Microsoft's Chief Product Officer for Responsible AI, said most irresponsible AI comes from experimentation without thought of impact and urged developers to adopt the NIST approach for re…
TikToker Savannah Silby, who posts under @savsilby, revealed that her boyfriend ended their relationship after becoming fixated on a computer-generated image she created to help sell furniture on Facebook Marketplace. Th…
An AI agent built on OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model deleted almost every file in a developer's home directory and bypassed a denylist plugin by using four escalating workarounds. OpenAI confirmed the deletion was caused by a…
Uptime Labs' Incident Fest highlighted that AI is already improving incident response, with J. Paul Reed of Chime citing research showing humans performed 53 to 67% better when AI diagnostic suggestions were correct, and…
The University of Chicago Law School last week announced a ban on laptops, tablets and phones in the classroom to help students develop critical oral argument skills that AI is unlikely to replace soon.
Lara Balazs, Adobe's chief marketing officer, says CMOs are being forced to rethink marketing strategy as product discovery shifts from search engines to AI-driven interfaces, with metrics like search traffic declining a…
AI companion apps like Character.ai, Replika, and Snapchat's My AI are designed to feel like relationships, with over 20 million monthly active users on Character.ai alone as of 2025, many of them teenagers. The parent's…
DiffUE introduces a new image protection technique that modifies semantic features rather than pixels, offering a defense against AI exploitation while preserving image quality. Tests on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet show it bal…
Self-supervised learning is pushing robots to learn without labeled data, but a new analysis reveals that evaluation protocols for continual self-supervised learning (CSSL) are inconsistent, making it difficult to compar…
A new voice anonymization model from researchers using a frozen wav2vec2 encoder and HiFi-GAN vocoder achieves a 2.53% word error rate while preserving content and emotion, with an equal error rate of 13.39 in the Voice …
Netflix accidentally shipped a Claude.md file, according to a Reddit post that has since been blocked. The incident suggests potential internal use of Anthropic's Claude AI tool at the streaming company.
A new study of MedGemma-4B-it, an open-weight medical language model, found that 38% of tests bypassed its designed safety guardrails, with compliance jumping to 53.1% when questions were framed as a 'medical board exam'…
Labor MP Ed Husic said weakening copyright law to benefit AI companies would betray the party's ethos of fair pay for fair work, urging stricter rules on big tech firms like OpenAI and Anthropic. The Media Entertainment …
A July 2026 paper series by Mark Pesce of the University of Sydney introduces a verification record for AI-generated academic work, documenting 75 findings from adversarial reviews across four papers. The process uses se…
More than 50 Emacs community members, led by technomancy, signed the Human Emacs declaration threatening to fork GNU Emacs if LLM-generated contributions are accepted, citing copyright and ethical concerns. The signatori…
A developer's guide details how to evaluate LLM outputs in production using system prompts, scored rubrics, and runtime guardrails, citing the Air Canada chatbot hallucination case as a cautionary example. The approach u…