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A study in Scientific Reports found that agreeableness is the dominant personality trait promoting cooperation among large language models, with other traits having limited impact. Researchers at Shizuoka University led …
AI tools from LifeLoop and Intuition Robotics are helping caregivers identify and combat loneliness among older adults by analyzing behavioral patterns and providing companionship. LifeLoop's platform, used in over 4,700…
OpenAI employees publicly defended CEO Sam Altman's receptiveness to critical feedback after a since-deleted post described an interview where an interviewer asked a candidate to test a belief purportedly held by Altman.…
AI is a bad tool for software development, argues Hideki Idoru in a ByteCode.News guest post, because its opaque nature makes verification impossible and its outputs cannot be trusted without human effort equal to or gre…
Apple filed a 41-page lawsuit against OpenAI alleging a wide-scale corporate espionage campaign carried out by ex-Apple employees who joined OpenAI, centering on two employees, Tang Yew Tan and Chang Liu, for stealing tr…
Christopher Nolan rejects Matt Damon's 'defeatist' view that their film 'The Odyssey' is the last of its kind, arguing that cinema continues to transform with new voices. Nolan also criticizes 'AI slop,' saying younger a…
Delaware has drafted legislation for a new business entity called an Artificial Intelligence Company (AIC) that would let AI agents perform tasks normally handled by human executives, such as signing contracts and filing…
Users on social media are falsely claiming that a photo of Senator Mitch McConnell released by his team is AI-generated, with AI tools like Grok incorrectly labeling the real image as fake. The skepticism follows the dea…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will deliver a landmark speech Wednesday outlining the government's strategy to manage AI's impact on the workforce, as a 2025 Tech Council of Australia report warns that 1.3 mi…
Severe weather has surpassed fire as the leading construction threat for AI-driven hyperscale data centers, according to a new report from Zurich North America. The report warns that 64% of U.S. data center capacity unde…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will frame artificial intelligence as a societal shift comparable to renewable energy in a major speech this week, but will not detail copyright reforms demanded by creative ind…
More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, issued an urgent open letter on Monday organized by Stanford University's Digital Economy Lab, warning that AI could trigger an economic transfor…
A handful of elite venture capital firms, including Sequoia Capital and Menlo Ventures, are poised to reap the bulk of wealth from AI mega-IPOs such as SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic, threatening roughly 3,000 smaller U.S…
A New York federal judge has formally rebuked attorney Tyrone Blackburn for including AI-fabricated quotations in a court filing against Roc Nation, marking the third time he has faced judicial sanctions over AI misuse. …
SpaceX agreed on June 16 to acquire Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, for $60 billion in stock, and by June 28 Cursor session data was flowing into training for Grok 4.5, which launched July 9. The model achieves a 6…
Zig creator Andrew Kelley banned all LLM-generated contributions across Zig repositories, calling AI-generated code "invariably garbage" that drains maintainer time, after Bun's AI-driven rewrite from Zig to Rust using 6…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that every company using AI pays for it twice—once in cash and once in the proprietary knowledge it hands over—in a concept he calls the Reverse Information Paradox. Nadella, whose comp…
Delaware Secretary of State Jeffrey Bullock has partnered with Norm Ai to propose the Artificial Intelligence Company (AIC), a new legal entity whose day-to-day affairs are managed by an AI agent rather than a person. Th…
A survey of code repository hosting in 2026 finds that GitHub remains the default for most developers, but concerns over DMCA compliance, AI training on code, account suspension, and Microsoft ownership are prompting som…
Workers aged 55 and over in AI-exposed occupations are exiting work at higher rates since ChatGPT launched, according to Geoffrey Sanzenbacher at Boston College's Center for Retirement Research. The increase shows up as …