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Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday accusing the company of trade secret theft, revealing that more than 400 former Apple employees now work at OpenAI. Apple claims OpenAI has exploited confidential informatio…
The Trump administration plans a summit to expand its Ratepayer Protection Pledge, aiming to ensure AI infrastructure costs are not passed on to households, according to Reuters. Tech giants including Amazon, Google, Met…
More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates and representatives from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, are calling for immediate action to prepare for AI's economic impact, warning that the tra…
More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, signed an open letter Monday organized by Stanford University's digital economy lab warning that AI could drive an economic transformation larger…
A group of 70 prominent economists, policymakers, and technology leaders, including Erik Brynjolfsson, Daron Acemoglu, and Eric Schmidt, issued a statement warning that AI may become radically more powerful over the next…
A new Verasight survey of 1,690 adults found that 69% of Americans support forcing AI companies to transfer half their stock to a public sovereign wealth fund, and 89% support requiring AI firms to disclose all internal …
AI is reshaping work differently for managers and individual contributors, but the long-term endpoint for both may be becoming a manager, argues a new analysis. Managers gain an army of cheap AI doers but face pressure a…
The University of Chicago Law School is banning phones, tablets, and laptops in first-year classes and redesigning its curriculum to be more "AI-resilient" amid growing concerns over generative AI cheating. The policy, a…
Columbia Business School professors argue that the Balogun red card incident at the World Cup illustrates how AI increases, rather than decreases, the need for human judgment in decision-making. Semi-automated offside te…
Apple sued OpenAI on Friday for stealing hardware trade secrets, alleging that more than 400 former Apple employees now work at OpenAI and that the startup used a shared manufacturing partner to copy a proprietary metal-…
Twelve registered nurses at Montefiore hospital in the Bronx were laid off on July 13, 2026, after their roles were replaced by AI-powered software, according to the New York State Nurses Association, which says the move…
Meta's AI-powered ad tools are generating bizarre and damaging results for advertisers, including twisted limbs and altered products, despite the company's push for automation. Advertisers like Jessica Gleim say the tool…
Mark Cuban warns that AI in healthcare is becoming an arms race between hospitals and insurers, with each side deploying AI to maximize profits at the expense of patients. Cuban, who co-founded Cost Plus Drug Company in …
A new open-source tool, available as a Claude skill, aims to make AI-generated text in research papers and grant proposals sound more human by smoothing out robotic phrasing. The tool raises ethical questions about trans…
Workers ordered to use AI by their bosses are then penalized for it, a phenomenon researchers call the "AI penalty" that is costing employees promotions and raises, according to a Business Insider report. Christoph Riedl…
The University of Chicago Law School will ban laptops and smartphones for first-year students starting the 2026-2027 academic year, part of an "AI-resilient pedagogy and assessments" strategy to foster independent critic…
The further a topic is from your expertise, the smarter an AI will sound, creating a blind spot that not enough people take seriously, according to a blog post. The author recommends testing AI systems with deep question…
Interactions with AI assistants are often rude and self-centered, and these habits may spill over into human interactions, according to a Psychology Today article reviewed by Gary Drevitch. The article warns that declini…
Software engineering job applicants are increasingly using AI assistants like Final Round AI, Interview Coder, and ParakeetAI to generate responses during remote technical interviews, while employers counter with AI-powe…
Meta pulled a new AI feature on Instagram days after its launch due to privacy concerns over the tool's handling of publicly posted photos. The feature, part of the Muse Image AI generator, allowed users to create AI-gen…