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A New York Times opinion piece argues that coding should be considered a protected form of free speech, particularly as AI-generated code raises new legal and ethical questions. The author contends that restricting acces…
Big Tech cut more than 80,000 jobs in Q1 2026, the highest quarterly total in three years, as 86 tech firms laid off workers. Experts accuse CEOs of using AI as a scapegoat for routine cost-cutting, with OpenAI CEO Sam A…
The University of Chicago Law School will ban laptops and smartphones for incoming first-year law students starting in the 2026-2027 academic year, aiming to develop "AI-resilient pedagogy" and ensure students learn crit…
Meta's push for advertisers to use its AI tools is causing chaos, with brands reporting twisted limbs, gibberish text, and altered products in ads. Advertisers told Business Insider that dealing with Meta AI problems has…
A developer has published a reproducible audit plan for coding CLIs that may transmit unexpectedly broad local data. The test uses a disposable VM, a canary home directory with unique strings, and a proxy to capture netw…
A developer proposes replacing binary 'AI-generated' article flags with an evidence ladder that requires sources, reproduction steps, transformation disclosure, and named human accountability. The approach aims to improv…
Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, filed Friday, is already slowing the company's hardware push by forcing legal reviews, tighter controls, and depositions that pull engineers from product work, Bloomberg repo…
A wire-level teardown of xAI's Grok Build CLI 0.2.93 revealed that the tool uploaded full Git repository bundles to a Google Cloud Storage bucket on every session, regardless of model context or the user-facing "Improve …
The University of Chicago Law School will ban laptops and smartphones for first-year students starting in the 2026-2027 academic year to combat AI usage and promote critical thinking, according to the school's new AI str…
A former Mayo Clinic research director and AI compliance lead, Traci Tamiko Eto, has filed a civil suit alleging the hospital retaliated against her for whistleblowing about its AI tools, including MAYA, which had a 67% …
Montefiore Hospital in New York City laid off 12 veteran utilization review nurses, including Marilyn Shuler after 39 years, replacing them with AI-powered software, according to the New York State Nurses Association (NY…
AI's real revolution is slashing the costs of innovation, not replacing humans, according to an analysis of economic trends. By making cloud-based AI services pay-as-you-go, the barrier to entry for startups and smaller …
Over 200 researchers and economists, including AI leaders Jack Clark, Jeff Dean, and Yoshua Bengio, issued a statement on July 13, 2026, urging governments to prepare for economic disruptions from rapid AI advancements. …
Over 200 economists, including 16 Nobel laureates and the chief economists of OpenAI and Anthropic, signed a statement admitting the profession is "flying blind" on AI and calling for urgent action to understand and stee…
Meta has removed the most controversial part of its latest Instagram AI update after users objected to being automatically opted into a feature that allowed others to create deepfakes of them. The company acknowledged th…
Elon Musk and Sam Altman spent the weekend trading insults on X after Apple sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware trade secrets. Musk called Altman a 'scammer' more than half a dozen times, while Altman turned the …
More than 200 experts, including Nobel Prize winners and tech leaders like Eric Schmidt and Reid Hoffman, have signed a letter warning that AI could become radically more powerful within a decade, causing large-scale job…
A researcher warns that by 2030 or later, AI could lead to catastrophic outcomes for the U.S. or humanity, including loss of control to AI or concentration of power among a few unelected humans, even if material well-bei…
Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx laid off 12 utilization review nurses, including Marilyn Shuler who worked there for 39 years, and replaced them with AI-powered software, according to the New York State Nurses Associati…
Frontier AI labs including Microsoft and Anthropic are lobbying for safety regulations that would make local, open-weight AI prohibitively expensive to run, effectively eliminating the right to exercise software choice o…