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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…
Meta pulled Instagram's AI-curated feed and auto-caption features on July 13 after user backlash, with internal data showing engagement 42% below human-curated alternatives and caption suggestion acceptance at 3%. The ra…
More than 200 economists and researchers including 15 Nobel Prize winners signed a statement organized by Korinek, Brynjolfsson, Agrawal, and Cunningham warning that AI-driven labor displacement will occur in years rathe…
Apple filed suit against OpenAI on July 13, claiming the AI company used partnership resources to develop a competing AI-first device, in a case that will define whether model builders can vertically integrate against pl…
AI bots in customer service are efficient but often lack the empathy needed for complex or emotionally charged issues, according to industry observers. While automation scales interactions economically, businesses risk c…
In the AI era, traditional metrics like intelligence and talent are becoming obsolete, replaced by a new trinity of imagination, agency, and taste, argues a commentary. The author contends that as intelligence becomes a …
Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI highlights the fragility of tech partnerships and the critical need to protect intellectual property and employee insights, as once-allied giants now face off legally over proprietary knowl…
WordCamp US 2026 will take place August 16-19 in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring four tracks including AI, Honing Your Skills, Technical WordPress, and Beginner WordPress. The event begins with Contributor Day on August 16, …
The Church of England is drafting new rules for its 6,700 vicars on the use of artificial intelligence, following a directive from the General Synod that generative AI tools can no longer be ignored. Archbishop of Canter…
Alberto Romero argues that the rise of AI has decoupled cognitive labor from cognitive output, making intelligence rentable by the token and ability delegable to agents. The old formula of intelligence, ability, and tale…
More than 200 top economists, executives, and researchers, including over a dozen Nobel Prize winners, have signed a letter warning that AI could cause large-scale job displacement if policymakers do not act now. The 88-…
Meta's $201 billion revenue in 2025 is overshadowed by reports that its Instagram ad system in India inadvertently approved ads containing child sexual abuse material, highlighting a tension between profit-driven AI inve…
Consortium, an open-source workflow runtime for LLM-powered applications, enables developers to replace a single model call with reliable, auditable ensemble workflows by changing one line of code. The v0.1 release inclu…
Anthropic's vision-language model misidentified a video of a rotary automatic weapon firing as a screen recording of a terminal running code, demonstrating object hallucination where the model's output is governed by tra…
AI is creating a dual reality for older workers, either making their roles more efficient or pushing them into early retirement, according to recent research. In industries like manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare, …
Apple has filed a lawsuit alleging former iPhone engineer Chang Liu exploited a network vulnerability to steal trade secrets and supply them to OpenAI, where he joined the company's hardware division. The July 10 complai…
AI agents are complicating zero trust security models by acting as autonomous decision-makers, creating a verification dilemma where traditional authentication and endpoint verification fall short. The challenge, accordi…
AI reliability depends on clear specifications and rigorous verification, according to an unnamed expert. Without these foundations, AI models risk producing unpredictable outputs, especially as they handle critical task…
A randomized controlled trial by Anthropic researchers Judy Hanwen Shen and Alex Tamkin found that junior software engineers using an AI assistant scored an average of 50% on a comprehension quiz, compared to 67% for tho…
The AI boom will drive €6.8 billion in water spending for European data centres by 2036, according to a new report from Water Magazine. The spending is driven by the cooling needs of AI workloads, which require significa…