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AI-generated code now accounts for half to two-thirds of net new code in many organizations, but larger pull requests driven by AI tools correlate with more bugs, according to Span Field CTO Stephen Poletto. He warned th…
The Hard Times published a satirical opinion piece titled 'Opinion: AI Will Never Replace Deez Nuts,' using crude humor to mock claims that artificial intelligence will replace human labor. The article references OpenAI,…
Utah Republican congressional candidates Celeste Maloy and Phil Lyman clashed over AI regulation during a debate Tuesday, exposing fractures within the GOP over the Trump administration's national AI strategy. Maloy tout…
A developer reports that AI-generated code, while fast to produce, creates 'Ghost Implementations'—code that works but lacks justified logic, making maintenance and evolution difficult. After an AI built a UI in two hour…
The Pentagon confirmed that Elon Musk's xAI Grok chatbot was used in US military strikes against Iran, helping target over 2,000 munitions in 96 hours during Operation Epic Fury. Pentagon AI chief Cameron Stanley testifi…
AI does not replace human thinking but amplifies it, according to a developer's experience. The quality of thought determines outcomes, with clear thinking leading to dramatically better results and poor thinking causing…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced an internal company-wide AI hackathon scheduled for July 14-16, aiming to revive hacker culture. Employees, many of whom absorbed workloads after roughly 8,000 recent layoffs, expressed…
Researchers at Indiana University found that AI rewriting of radiology reports causes a 'slop paradox' where tasks that produce cleaner text for multimodal training actually degrade image-text alignment more than summari…
Schroders Group CIO Johanna Kyrklund argues that AI and tech stocks are not in a bubble, citing strong cash flows at major firms like Meta and Google that distinguish the current boom from the dot-com era. However, she w…
China's employment-first policy is forcing companies like JD.com to slow AI adoption, risking productivity gains. A 2026 court ruling bars firms from firing workers replaced by AI, while youth unemployment and 12.7 milli…
Enterprise AI systems are increasingly dependent on stateful infrastructure for managing context, history, and execution state, mirroring challenges in distributed computing. This shift means that operational difficultie…
A new study reveals that large language models exhibit a strong brand bias, recommending well-known brands 100% of the time when product specifications are identical, but this dominance can be broken by minor rating adva…
Researchers have developed a curriculum-grounded LLM-as-Judge pipeline for automated marking of exam questions, co-developed with an industrial partner. The system uses authorized curriculum artefacts and marking guideli…
Researchers introduced PuMVR, a benchmark of 1,000 image-text pairs across Punjabi's three scripts, and found that state-of-the-art vision-language models show a systematic Script Gap, with accuracy differences up to 16%…
Researchers introduced STATEWITNESS, an activation explainer that decodes hidden states from reasoning LLMs to audit deceptive behavior, achieving 0.916 mean AUROC and outperforming existing monitors by 11.6% to 25.0%. T…
Researchers at the University of Toronto introduced a novel method to evaluate second-order social bias in large language models (LLMs), where models exhibit bias in their judgments about biased content. Using a reasonin…
Researchers at arXiv have identified a conflict signature in language models that distinguishes deceptive outputs from honest errors, achieving 100% accuracy in detecting lies across multiple models including GPT-2, Qwen…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in an Associated Press interview that society must adopt new social norms as artificial intelligence becomes more widely used, urging people to engage with AI. He supported government regulat…
KPMG, a global consulting firm with 250,000 employees, published an AI-generated report in October 2025 titled 'Total Experience: Redefining Excellence in the Age of Agentic AI.' An audit by GPTZero found that 40 of 45 c…
Hong Kong teachers must complete at least 30 hours of digital education training every three years under a new government blueprint to boost AI integration in schools. Primary and secondary schools are required to includ…