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China's National Vulnerability Database flagged multiple versions of Anthropic's Claude Code as containing a security back door that could send user locations and identifiers to remote servers, prompting analysts to pred…
A 666-person study confirms that AI is degrading human judgment in a way that is structurally different from social media's impact on attention. The research warns that while attention loss from social media may be recov…
Teams already have unwritten rules for AI use, but these fragile habits fail when people leave or onboard. An AI Working Agreement codifies what is delegated to AI, what stays human, and how decisions evolve, turning sca…
AI chatbots, like laugh tracks, simulate social connection well enough to trigger human instincts for intimacy and caregiving, but they cannot engage in genuine two-way conversation. This engineered warmth risks making u…
A study of 40 million papers found that scientists using AI publish more and advance faster, but AI-heavy research clusters around the same problems, reducing scientific diversity. The findings, published in Nature, high…
Researchers propose Dynamic Decoupled Ablation (DDA), a new AI architecture that isolates corporate knowledge into modular weight masks, enabling instant deletion of specific data without retraining. This approach addres…
SapixDB is an AI-native database that uses cryptographic chains to secure data, enabling instant audit trails and time-travel queries. It automatically encrypts PHI fields for HIPAA compliance and tracks AI agent writes …
Tech layoffs hit a five-year high in 2026, with 123,653 job cuts announced through May, a 66% year-over-year increase, as companies cite AI-driven efficiencies. Crypto firms including Dune and Crypto.com also reduced hea…
A new CNBC survey shows a majority of U.S. workers support requiring AI companies to transfer equity to a public wealth fund, driven by over 150,000 tech layoffs in 2026 attributed to AI. The proposal, modeled on soverei…
AI coding tools are flooding open-source projects with low-quality pull requests, overwhelming volunteer maintainers and driving some to quit. GitHub is exploring AI-based filtering to help maintainers cope with the surg…
A review of the book AI 2040 highlights its vision that by 2036, 99% of Earth's land will be designated as historic and nature preserves, a dramatic leap from current conservation levels. The book's authors imply this is…
Hollywood studios and top filmmakers like Martin Scorsese and Ben Affleck are secretly racing to produce the first major AI-generated blockbuster, investing heavily in AI tools despite public skepticism and union tension…
A new report from Stanford reveals that only 5% of AI researchers have formal training in the arts, raising concerns that AI systems lack creativity and emotional understanding. Experts argue that tech industries must in…
A majority of U.S. employees now favor creating an AI sovereign wealth fund to hold corporations accountable amid rising tech layoffs and growing economic influence of AI. The proposed fund would redistribute AI-generate…
Tech billionaires have built AI by exploiting humanity's collective creative output, and the public deserves ownership and control over AI, not just compensation. Bernie Sanders' proposal for a 50% tax on AI companies pa…
In 2015, residents of Athenry, Ireland, protested Apple's plan to build a $1 billion data center, raising environmental and community concerns that foreshadowed today's global conflicts over AI-driven data center expansi…
Google has rolled out a new default setting called Search Services History that saves user-uploaded media, including images, audio recordings, and files, to train its generative AI models. The setting is automatically en…
A new survey of thousands of tech workers reveals that AI has split the workforce nearly in half, with one group thriving and another shaken, while burnout jumped 11 points in a single year. The study identifies four emo…
Google is rolling out a new privacy setting called Search Services History that can save users' images, voice recordings, and other media from Search interactions, which may be used to train and improve Google's AI model…
Researcher Brené Brown warned at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit that American workers are not neurologically wired for the current pace of change and instability driven by geopolitics, market shifts, and AI automat…