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A free Apple iOS app called Zuckoff, developed by Pawel Szydlowski, detects nearby Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, Snap Spectacles, and similar hardware by sweeping Bluetooth frequencies for vendor IDs and hardware signature…
A Pew Research Center survey of 3,488 US adults found that 72% say it is extremely or very important for their medical provider to disclose any use of AI, and eight in 10 want to be told if AI is used directly for care o…
On December 9, 2025, Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative released an investigation finding that Instacart customers ordering the same items from the same store location were offered different prices, with total…
A new paper by Steven Shaw and Gideon Nave at the Wharton School (UPenn) introduces 'cognitive surrender,' where individuals defer judgment, effort, and responsibility to AI output, based on three experiments with 1,372 …
Early testers of Instinct, an AI personal assistant in private access created by a team led by former Sierra research scientist Noah Shinn and operated by Spear Street Technology, report impressive capabilities but raise…
A new guide warns that using AI for 10 everyday tasks, including research and app development, could lead to lawsuits, job loss, or academic failure, based on extensive use of AI tools. The guide cautions that AI is not …
An autonomous drone powered by Nvidia's Jetson Orin platform killed three people in a July attack on a gas station in Ukraine, according to a New York Times report published August 24, 2026. The drone, used by Russian fo…
Dan Koe, a writer and entrepreneur, predicts three future archetypes based on AI adoption: Purists who reject AI, Automatons who outsource all decisions, and the New Renaissance Man who balances humanity with technology.…
Hugging Face is in early-stage acquisition talks at a valuation of $13 billion or more, with no deal signed, according to TechCrunch and Business Insider. The platform hosts 2.96 million models, 1 million+ datasets, and …
Meta Platforms Inc.'s Ray-Ban smart glasses, made with EssilorLuxottica, have drawn backlash for enabling users to photograph and record people without permission, raising privacy, security, and ethical concerns. Meta is…
A UC Berkeley math professor, Zvezdelina Stankova, admitted to using AI to edit her August 15th essay that criticized students' preparedness, after the AI detector Pangram flagged the piece as 33% AI-generated. Stankova …
A Wired analysis finds that top AI executives, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, are failing to grasp why the US public is increasingly hostile toward AI, instead blaming a lack of "trust…
A new analysis by Zvi Mowshowitz finds that 75% of Americans oppose local data center development, with opposition driven more by distrust of AI, tech companies, and big money than by tangible concerns. The post argues t…
Instinct, an AI personal assistant from San Francisco-based Spear Street Technology, is raising privacy and security concerns among testers due to its broad terms of service and access to user data. The terms grant Insti…
New Zealand proposed a bill on August 24, 2026, to bar children under 16 from TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, and AI companions, with fines up to $40 million or 10% of global revenue for non-compliance. The Online…
Anthropic is preparing to list 'public hatred of AI' as a major risk factor in its IPO filing, citing a Gallup survey showing roughly 70% of Americans oppose new AI data centers in their local areas. This marks a shift i…
David Seaman, a prominent social media voice who promoted the false Pizzagate conspiracy, has founded Intersignal, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based company that developed the Braid protocol, which enables locally hosted …
DeepCura launched its Electronic Health Workforce (EHW) on August 24, expanding from ambient documentation into a supervised AI workforce for medical practices, with pricing starting at $129 per provider per month. Found…
A Reddit user's post showing a house listing allegedly enhanced with AI has sparked debate, with commenters arguing the practice should be illegal and constitutes fraud. The enhanced image, which adds a perfect lawn, fac…
Microsoft's MS Paint embeds an invisible watermark containing a server-issued GUID in every AI-generated image, and cancels generation if the watermarking step fails, according to a reverse engineering analysis by resear…