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A Japanese nonprofit found over 43,000 AI deepfakes of celebrities created in two months last year, causing copyright losses estimated at ¥2 billion to ¥4.5 billion. The Japan Publicity Right Protection Organization (JAP…
A rare bacterium, Cupriavidus gilardii, was found in wastewater discharged during construction of Meta's $800 million AI data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, prompting a months-long cleanup and new environmental regulations…
A new study by Bean et al. (2025) finds a 61 percentage point gap between LLM performance on healthcare benchmarks and real-world deployment, where patients using LLMs as medical assistants showed no improvement in self-…
Recruitment firms like Randstad are pivoting to specialized AI roles as generative AI automates routine hiring tasks, with demand for AI solutions leads up 226% and process automation specialists up 196%. The industry be…
Meta is testing a 'super sensing' mode for its Ray-Ban smart glasses that could enable continuous environmental recording, raising privacy concerns. The company sold over 7 million pairs in 2025, signaling growing consum…
AI is turning the most productive engineers into single points of failure by removing the collaborative friction that once spread knowledge across teams, according to a LeadDev.com analysis. The tool that makes a 10x eng…
A developer explores the rise of personal AI as an eternal archivist, arguing that while it offers unprecedented self-awareness through objective behavioral analysis, it also threatens human identity by eliminating the r…
A developer argues that AI-generated content is not less authentic than human-written slop, because online emptiness predates AI. The post contends that friction, not authenticity, has been lost, and that the real proble…
Congressional lawmakers must be prepared to discuss key AI policy questions, including regulation, ethics, and national security implications, as artificial intelligence rapidly advances. The article outlines critical ar…
The Kubernetes community has introduced a framework for integrating AI into open-source maintainership that prioritizes human accountability, requiring transparent disclosure of AI usage in pull requests and prohibiting …
A Nature study published in May 2026 found that commercial large language models including ChatGPT and Claude gave more favorable answers about China when prompted in Chinese than in English, with human raters judging Ch…
Facebook has taken no action against a far-right influence campaign using AI-generated videos about Britain, despite being flagged by The Independent more than a month ago. The page, Life in Britain, has over 100,000 fol…
OpenAI meluncurkan dua model suara baru untuk ChatGPT, GPT-Live-1 dan versi mini, yang memungkinkan interaksi berkelanjutan dengan kemampuan mendengar dan berbicara bersamaan, termasuk penerjemahan langsung. Pembaruan in…
As AI increasingly takes over software testing, enterprises risk deploying AI testers that systematically miss novel defects because they validate only past patterns. Unlike human testers, AI tools can be confidently wro…
A PlainEnglish article warns that AI benchmark scores such as MMLU, HumanEval, and HellaSwag can overstate production readiness when leaderboard numbers are treated as proof of model quality. The commentary cites broader…
Researchers released the CAI Dataset, a 14-month corpus of 230,935 cybersecurity LLM session logs and 26 million prompts from 16,768 IPs across 123 countries, making it the largest known collection of LLM-driven hacker t…
Founders launching AI-built apps must evaluate code ownership, build limits, data security, and pre-launch technical reviews, as highlighted by Builder.ai's bankruptcy after raising $450 million from Microsoft and SoftBa…
A software developer who rejoined a former team found that members now rely heavily on AI for coding, code review, and PR descriptions, diminishing craftsmanship and engagement. Another developer described a team where A…
Andreessen Horowitz released a video arguing that American AI development must outpace adversaries, claiming that whoever builds advanced AI first shapes the world's defaults. The piece critiques this stance, arguing tha…
OpenAI and the Walton Family Foundation will launch an AI Skills Jam for K-12 educators this summer, training over 1,600 teachers and administrators in practical AI workflows like lesson planning and administrative tasks…