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82% of Americans say people are struggling to tell what’s real from what’s fake, while only 17% see AI improving health care, according to the first results from a biweekly survey by Americans On AI and NORC at the Unive…
A MarketWatch opinion piece argues that Big Tech companies are capturing all equity from the AI boom built on user data, proposing mechanisms for individuals to reclaim wealth from AI-driven profits.
China faces a strained job market as a record 12.7 million college graduates enter the workforce amid a 15.6% youth unemployment rate, with AI and automation reducing entry-level positions. The Chinese government has int…
The death of Canada's proposed Artificial Intelligence and Data Act has left tech startups in a legal vacuum, according to Toronto-based employment lawyer Monty Verlint of Littler. Existing human rights and privacy laws …
A Fast Company survey of 34 CEOs, including leaders of Rocket Companies, Accenture Song, Caldecott Music Group, American Express, and Anduril, reveals that agentic AI is transforming business by thinking, deciding, and a…
Residents of Boxtown, a historic Black community in southwest Memphis, are confronting the impacts of the Colossus AI data center complex built by xAI and now leased to Anthropic and Google, raising familiar questions ab…
Apple Inc. shares have rallied 15% since bottoming on June 25, adding nearly $600 billion in market value, as investors flee AI-related stocks amid concerns about heavy spending on artificial intelligence. The iPhone mak…
Explainable AI (XAI) is essential for deploying machine learning in high-stakes domains like healthcare, finance, and autonomous vehicles, where opaque models can lead to liability, non-compliance, or safety risks. In he…
AI music tools like Suno and Udio enable anyone to generate polished songs in seconds, with 97% of listeners unable to distinguish AI from human work in blind tests. Streaming platforms are overwhelmed: Deezer reports 44…
Elon Musk accused Sam Altman of stealing Apple's phone technology in a post on X on July 12, 2026, escalating a weekend war of words as both SpaceX and OpenAI seek public investment. The dispute follows Apple's lawsuit a…
Only 21% of organizations have a mature governance model for AI agents, according to Deloitte's 2026 State of Enterprise AI report, while 83% cite data quality as their top AI challenge and 74% struggle to demonstrate RO…
Anthropic and OpenAI warn that China is stealing their cutting-edge AI through a technique called distillation, enabling cheap, open-source chatbots that threaten US national security and its lead in artificial intellige…
Project Sidewalk, an online crowdsourcing platform founded in 2012 by University of Washington computer science professor Jon Froehlich, uses AI and volunteer labelers to catalog sidewalk issues like missing curb ramps a…
Apple is suing OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets, though the case centers on one employee and appears more like a defensive move than a strong legal claim, according to Stratechery analysis.
The China Internet Association released a self-regulatory pact on personal information protection for AI agents at a forum in Beijing, with Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Volcengine, and 27 other internet companies among the f…
Ben Touati, a former writer for ClickOut Media, discovered that AI-powered software had published five articles under his byline after his dismissal in March 2026, which he described as 'lazy slop' and 'a real slap in th…
Physicist Roger Penrose argues that consciousness cannot be produced by algorithmic computation and requires undiscovered physics, according to a Space Daily feature on his Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR) theo…
Meta and Alphabet were found culpable for teen addiction related to social media algorithm designs, while Meta wound down Horizon Worlds after a $70 billion-plus VR bet and OpenAI shuttered Sora at an estimated $1 billio…
A developer who attended Tessl's AI DevCon and Muslim Tech Fest found that both events, despite different focuses, converged on the same insight: before adopting AI, individuals and organizations must first understand th…
Anthropic's proposed $21 billion investment in Australia is contingent on the Australian government providing clarity on copyright laws related to AI training data, according to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in discussions …