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The iF Design 2026 Trend Report identifies five key design trends, emphasizing a shift away from AI-driven uniformity toward human-centered, imperfect, and community-focused design. Brands are increasingly valuing craft,…
Tether's AI research team argues that cloud-hosted AI systems force users to rent intelligence, creating availability bias, high costs, and data sovereignty risks. They advocate for local, edge-optimized AI that runs on …
Anthropic researchers discovered an internal workspace inside its Claude AI model where concepts form before being verbalized, resembling human conscious access. The structure, which emerged during training, allows silen…
A federal judge appointed a mediator to resolve the legal dispute between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over OpenAI's restructuring, after a jury rejected Musk's claims that Altman betrayed OpenAI's founding principles. The m…
Intelligence can lead to poor decisions as smart people become adept at justifying irrational choices through motivated reasoning. Psychologists find that higher cognitive ability often correlates with stronger confirmat…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation argued on July 7, 2026 that automated moderation has become a permanent infrastructure layer of platform governance, not a temporary emergency measure. The analysis traces the shift fro…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argues that automated content moderation using AI has become a permanent fixture of online platforms, warning that crisis-era protocols adopted during the pandemic have persisted …
A new analysis argues that AI visibility dashboards, which claim to track brand presence in AI search results, are largely useless due to extreme inconsistency in AI responses. A study by Rand Fishkin found that repeated…
Norm Ai raised $120 million in Series C funding at a $1.2 billion valuation, led by Khosla Ventures with participation from Blackstone, Bain Capital Ventures, and Coatue. The startup operates its own law firm, Norm Law, …
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging supporters to become members for as little as $10 per month to help cut through AI hype and advocate for privacy, free expression, and protections against surveillance a…
A Hacker News user argues that reliance on large language models is causing companies to become dysfunctional by offloading cognitive tasks to LLMs, leading to complexity creep, cognitive debt, and hallucinations in supp…
DMark Beauty and DermAsia are integrating AI across beauty, wellness, healthcare, and medical aesthetics to enhance personalization and operational efficiency, according to The Manila Times. The adoption signals a shift …
Some AI researchers argue that scaling large language models may not be sufficient to achieve human-level intelligence, pointing to alternative approaches such as world models, pure reinforcement learning, or neurosymbol…
Meta has placed its Conversation Focus feature for Ray-Ban smart glasses behind a $19.99 monthly subscription, limiting free use to three hours per month. The feature, which amplifies voices during face-to-face conversat…
Ukraine will prioritize AI systems that can be self-hosted on its own servers to avoid dependence on providers who could restrict or cut access, a senior official said Tuesday. The policy, reinforced after the U.S. order…
OpenAI has offered the US government a 5% equity stake valued at $42.6 billion, part of a broader regulatory framework proposed by CEO Sam Altman to preempt AI regulation. The move has already impacted crypto markets, wi…
The internet faces a new naming and trust problem with AI agents, mirroring the early DNS era. Security incidents, such as an AI agent rewriting its own security policy at a Fortune 50 company, highlight the urgent need …
Chinese authorities are considering restricting foreign access to the country's most advanced AI models, including unreleased ones, in talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai. The move would reverse China's current open-…
Ekonomer varnar att USA:s fokus på AI-investeringar skapar ekonomisk obalans, med en svag arbetsmarknad och sjunkande arbetskraftsdeltagande. Professor Brett House vid Columbia University och Ben Harris vid Brookings Ins…
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for an AI Child Safety Pledge at the Global Dialogue On AI Governance in Geneva, urging companies to prove AI systems accessible to children are safe. He warned that unregulat…