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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma was appointed co-lead of the Federal Reserve's Productivity and Jobs task force on July 9, 2026, tasked with evaluating AI's impact on labor markets and monetary policy, just two days after Xbox anno…
A study of 692 publications reveals that AI fairness research is heavily concentrated in the United States, with low- and middle-income countries largely absent. The skewed citation influence suggests that current bias m…
A recent Gallup study shows college students are increasingly considering changing majors due to AI's threat to their industries, as over 126,000 jobs have already been lost to AI according to the Alliance for Secure AI.…
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has joined a Federal Reserve task force studying AI's impact on jobs and productivity, days after announcing 3,200 layoffs at Xbox. The task force, which includes Marc Andreessen and economist Charle…
Senator Ed Markey unveiled an AI accountability agenda on July 10, bundling nearly a dozen bills that expand federal oversight beyond frontier-model safety to include data center siting, workplace surveillance, child saf…
A developer observes that many online comments appear AI-generated, citing polished but vague compliments, repeated sentence structures, and frequent em dashes as telltale signs. The developer questions whether such comm…
A New York Times article examines how white-collar professionals are being enlisted to train AI systems that will ultimately replace their own jobs, highlighting the paradox of workers facilitating their own obsolescence…
AI-generated images and videos of World Cup fans are spreading rapidly on X, fooling thousands of users into believing they are real. The slop includes semi-erotic scenarios and fake romantic moments, with some posts gar…
Christopher Nolan said younger filmmakers and his own children are rejecting AI-generated content, calling it 'AI slop,' and noted a renewed interest in practical effects and tactile storytelling. The director cited exam…
The US Federal Reserve appointed Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, to co-lead a task force examining how artificial intelligence reshapes productivity, jobs, and monetary policy. The task force, part of…
Meta launched Muse Image, an AI image-generation tool integrated into Instagram and WhatsApp, which by default allows users to generate images from public Instagram accounts via @ mentions, sparking backlash over privacy…
A new AI governance method combines participatory evaluation, expert cost analysis, and genetic algorithm-based simulations to identify effective policy combinations for mitigating AI harms. The approach aims to help pol…
A study of neural-interface models reveals a critical gap between formal robustness certificates and real-world safety, with EEGNet's classification accuracy dropping 25.7% under attack while certificates remained valid.…
A new framework from the Nielsen Norman Group identifies five essential qualities for site-specific AI chatbots: handoff willingness, flexibility, proactivity, emotional responsiveness, and transparency. The research war…
Elon Musk admitted on X that he was 'clearly wrong' about Anthropic, now calling the AI company 'obviously currently the leader in AI' and praising its Mythos/Fable model. The reversal came amid Anthropic's compute deal …
Anthropic launched a new film, 'Hope in Hard Questions,' as part of its Keep Thinking campaign to position itself as a responsible AI company. The ad, created from questions gathered from over 120,000 people worldwide, a…
A blog owner is blocking old browser versions to combat high-volume crawlers suspected of gathering data for LLM training, causing feed readers like Inoreader and Feedly to display error pages instead of content. The own…
Andrej Karpathy has been largely inactive on social media and GitHub since joining Anthropic nearly two months ago, raising questions about whether his reduced public presence is beneficial for the AI field.
A developer built ToS Radar PRO, a Chrome extension that uses local AI inference to scan Terms of Service and Privacy Policy pages for dangerous clauses like AI data scraping, forced arbitration, and auto-renewals. Testi…
Saarth Shah built Sixtyfour, an AI agent platform that grades every build against expert-curated questions before shipping, prioritizing reliability over capability. The system fuses live web research, public records, an…