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Apple has sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets to develop its own consumer hardware, claiming OpenAI poached Apple staff and requested trade secrets in job interviews. The lawsuit also names two former Apple …
Meta has scrapped Instagram's AI feature that let users generate images using public profiles as references, just days after announcing it alongside Muse Image. The company said it listened to user backlash and removed t…
A developer presents a 7-point framework for evaluating AI engineers in 2026, arguing that traditional signals like Kaggle experience or PyTorch knowledge no longer predict who can ship reliable AI systems. The framework…
Three years after ChatGPT, 35% of new websites are AI-generated, and researchers from Stanford, Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive found after 33 months of measurement that AI content is not making the int…
AI agent projects fail predictably due to architectural and operational anti-patterns, not the underlying model, according to IBM. Common mistakes include premature multi-agent architecture, tool sprawl, hardcoded logic,…
Grocery Outlet in San Francisco's Mission District is using AI facial recognition software from SAFR at RealNetworks to match customers against a watchlist of people who have previously caused harm, with the system sendi…
Elon Musk launched a blistering attack on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on X, calling him a 'scammer' and joking about a parole officer, after Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI in the U.S. District Court for the…
Vairfid launches an identity and accountability layer for AI agents, providing a public registry, trust scores, and an enterprise SDK to verify agent identities and reduce risk in cross-company workflows. The platform as…
A study published in Science suggests that while AI has accelerated scientific discovery, it may also be narrowing the scope of research by focusing on problems that are easily solvable by machine learning, potentially r…
Phia, the AI-powered shopping browser extension co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, faced two major controversies: in November 2025, security researchers revealed it was capturing full HTML snapshots of nearly …
Opposition to AI datacenters has become a bipartisan issue in US politics, but focusing solely on datacenters obscures the larger impacts of AI, including the concentration of power and political influence of AI companie…
Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) released a discussion draft of the AI AGENT Act on June 29, 2026, marking the first federal law to regulate agentic AI systems. The Act, structured as an e-commerce consumer protection interve…
Professionals who treat AI as a replacement for thinking risk making themselves redundant, while those who use it strategically can amplify their value, according to experts including Sarah Smith, Chief Innovation Office…
Apple accused OpenAI of intellectual property theft through poached employees and a coordinated pattern of institutional misconduct, but its lawsuit also revealed security lapses at Apple as OpenAI poached hundreds of st…
Meta pulled its AI image generation feature from Instagram late Friday, days after its launch, following widespread criticism over privacy concerns. The feature allowed users to generate AI content using public Instagram…
AI companies are offering financial support to museums, but the terms of these partnerships remain unclear, raising questions about what the companies seek in return.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov accused the European Union of using 'banana republic' tactics to revive Chat Control after a low-attendance procedural vote in the European Parliament extended temporary rules allowing platfo…
Opposition to AI data centers has emerged as a bipartisan theme in US politics, but a new essay co-authored by Nathan E. Sanders and originally published in The Guardian argues that focusing on data centers obscures the …
Anthropic published a study in March 2026 introducing a novel metric called 'observed exposure' to measure AI's actual impact on jobs, finding that AI is not yet replacing jobs at scale but is creating a skills divide, w…
In a podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with Sarah Wells about governance in software architecture and its application to agentic AI development. Wells argued that governance enables teams to reduce complexity and improve se…