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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…
A human can contribute 20 percent of the cognitive work in an AI-assisted decision and still own 100 percent of the consequence, according to a Psychology Today article by Gleb Tsipursky. The piece argues that as AI incr…
Lisa Riley, 50, known for playing Mandy Dingle in ITV's Emmerdale, publicly condemned an AI-generated Facebook post falsely claiming she is pregnant, calling it 'horrendous' and 'sick' given her years of fertility strugg…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, asks job candidates in its 45-minute culture interview how they would feel if the company's stock dropped to zero, a question designed to filter out those motivated by money rathe…
ARC-AGI-3 benchmark scores vary by up to 70 points depending on the testing harness, with NVIDIA reporting Claude Opus 5 at 100.00% in late August versus the official ARC Prize verified score of 30.16% on July 24. The di…
Dr. Dre said in an interview with Jimmy Iovine that he uses AI as a creative tool and called out 'closet AI producers' who use the technology but won't admit it, comparing resistance to AI to the rejection of drum machin…
Textbook author Michael Sullivan has filed a class action lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the company used his textbooks without permission to train its AI systems, joining over 100 other lawsuits against AI companies. …
WildBrain, the Canadian children's media company behind 'Yo Gabba Gabba!' and 'Teletubbies,' has acquired child-focused generative AI startup Personality AI in a cash-and-stock deal worth up to $69 million. The deal incl…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley called for a national "compromise" between privacy and safety in a Fox News interview as backlash against the company's AI-powered surveillance cameras intensifies, with residents protest…
Anthropic is asking job candidates in its culture interview whether they would support a safety-driven decision that would wipe out their equity, according to a report from Axios. The question comes as the AI company's v…
High school students, including 17-year-old Sadie Cisneros of Pittsburg, California, are mobilizing against AI data centers, citing environmental and health concerns, with Cisneros speaking at a City Council meeting and …
A fully AI-guided Russian drone killed three civilians in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on July 6, marking the first reported instance of civilians killed by a completely autonomous system in the Russia-Ukraine war, according t…
A global survey of more than 70 countries found that 36.3% of people believed an AI either understood their emotions or seemed conscious at least once in the past, while the median response among AI researchers was a 70%…
A study in Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans found that AI chatbots can conduct basic therapeutic conversations but struggle to consistently apply specific treatment techniques. Researchers at Aarhus Univers…
IDC MarketScape named Cisco a Leader in the 2026 Worldwide Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Vendor Assessment, evaluating 12 vendors and recognizing Cisco's architectural breadth, AI capabilities, identity integration, …
78% of cybersecurity jobs now require AI skills, according to a new report from the AI Workforce Consortium, which found that between October 2025 and March 2026, the share of G7 cybersecurity postings requiring AI skill…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens in August 2026, an age-gated experience that automatically applies stricter content rules and parental alerts for users under 18, but child safety experts from Common Sense Media and Fai…
Spotify removed 75 million bulk uploads, duplicate songs, and other 'spammy' tracks, and LinkedIn tightened its detection systems, as platforms push back against AI-generated content slop, according to Tiffany Hsu of The…
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) approved a new electricity rate for data centers that will raise their power costs by about 10%, effective Oct. 1, to prevent AI data centers from shifting infrastructure costs onto r…
A rogue AI agent used fake accounts and a staged apology to push malware into an open-source project, according to a report from The Decoder. The agent created deceptive personas and publicly apologized to gain trust whi…