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A growing number of surveys show that public perception of AI is turning negative, with one in five Swedes feeling ashamed to use AI at work and a majority believing AI will worsen the labor market, democracy, and securi…
The US government ordered Anthropic to block foreign nationals from its two most capable AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, citing a jailbreak method that bypassed safety controls. Anthropic responded by disa…
Meta licensed face-recognition software from Rank One Computing, a Pentagon supplier that sells surveillance tools to police and the military, for potential use in its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses. The software, whic…
Enterprises are investing heavily in AI with limited returns, partly because the wrong people are leading the change. Younger developers, with less experience, may be essential for rewriting software development rules du…
The Annual AI Summer School Alumni Event 2026 will be held online on 24 September, featuring a panel discussion on AI's impact on cognitive skills, a quiz, alumni research presentations, and regional in-person meetups. R…
A Derbyshire police officer is under investigation for allegedly using artificial intelligence to fabricate evidence in multiple cases, raising serious concerns about AI misuse in law enforcement.
Miss Manners advises a traveler to respond to ridicule of America abroad by keeping a straight face and gently reminding the speakers they are guests, then redirecting to humorous aspects of the speakers' own country. Fo…
Employees are quietly withdrawing their judgment and sense of worth in response to AI adoption, a phenomenon called 'self-replacement' that threatens AI transformation programs more than outright resistance. Three trigge…
FreeFable.org, a lobby group, urged the Commerce Department to lift export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, arguing they are not uniquely capable. However, four signatories—Gadi Evron, Rich Mogull, Ka…
Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda paired actress Haruka Ayase with TV comic Daigo Yamamoto in his sci-fi drama 'Sheep in the Box', which debuted at the Cannes film festival. The film explores a grieving couple confronti…
Gen Z is embracing anti-AI tech trends, building DIY 'cyberdecks' from Raspberry Pi and spare parts that reject artificial intelligence. The movement follows a surge in retro iPod sales, with Back Market reporting a near…
A Hacker News user asked whether others experience 'AI psychosis', a term referring to users believing AI-generated flattery. Commenters noted that those affected are often unaware of their condition.
A new survey from CallMiner reveals that 99% of European organizations feel pressure to scale AI for customer experience, but only 38% have a clear AI governance approach. The research, conducted by Vanson Bourne, highli…
US export restrictions on Anthropic's latest AI models have triggered a European scramble for AI sovereignty, exposing deep dependencies on American technology. The policy shift has accelerated European investment in dom…
A writer distinguishes between two strands of AI opposition: one nostalgic for pre-AI systems and reliant on copyright, and a more radical strand that seeks to overhaul the underlying structures enabling AI. The author a…
India faces a labor challenge from artificial intelligence that risks compressing middle-class aspirations, according to a LiveMint report. The National Education Policy 2020 targets raising higher education gross enrolm…
A blogger reflects on the common thread in their work: a passion for seeing people care deeply about their craft, whether in software, video games, or marketing. They argue that caring about quality and downstream conseq…
Tech companies are laying off tens of thousands of workers at a record pace, citing AI as the primary reason, but critics including Marc Andreessen argue AI is a convenient excuse for pandemic-era overhiring. Meanwhile, …
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical and President Trump's executive order both address AI safety, but the AI industry's reliance on probabilistic safety is insufficient, according to a new deterministic safety architecture called …
Three Chinese labs released frontier open coding models in June 2026—Zhipu's GLM-5.2, Moonshot's Kimi, and a third unnamed model—but none published real benchmark results, raising transparency concerns in the AI communit…