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A developer rewatched the 2006 Adam Sandler film 'Click' and found its depiction of an AI remote control that learns user preferences and acts on them without asking to be a prescient warning for modern agentic AI. The m…
Robinhood and Coinbase have launched infrastructure allowing AI agents to directly access brokerage accounts and make trades, raising concerns about the lack of evidence that such agents can reliably generate profits. A …
The Pentagon shifted at least two-thirds of its AI workload away from Anthropic to rivals OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft after a dispute over military use of Claude models, including mass surveillance and autonomous weapo…
The traditional coding interview is dead as AI tools make cheating trivial, forcing a shift from hiring coders to hiring engineers who can design algorithms, review code, and debug. The author proposes five new pillars f…
Artificial intelligence risks causing 'synchronized blindness' as millions of individuals rely on the same AI models, eroding diversity of perception and judgment. This convergence threatens the productive friction that …
Hideo Kojima told The Washington Post he is not interested in generative AI for creating art and does not expect AI to produce real art in his lifetime, calling AI best suited for creative chores. The comments follow bac…
Brothers Ash and Pooya Koosha premiered Dreams of Violets, a 75-minute fully AI-generated drama about Iran's January 2026 protests, at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 10, 2026. The film, created under Fountain 0 studio…
An employee interrupted a Meta livestream with an expletive-filled outburst, reflecting widespread dissatisfaction in Meta's Applied AI unit. Employees describe the work as menial and soul-crushing, with record-low moral…
A new study reveals that large language models generate recurring fictional character ensembles, such as Elena Vasquez and Marcus Chen, who appear as experts across thousands of AI-generated documents. The research docum…
Clear Code Intelligence scanned Netflix's public Atlas repository, an observability and telemetry project, to test whether its technical debt report can understand domain context. The scan produced a mixed scorecard with…
A developer argues that the developer community must prioritize building large language models free from corporate and state control, warning that companies like Anthropic propose licensing regimes that would create a ne…
Anthropic's secret sabotage safety policy has undermined AI safety efforts, according to a critic. The policy is described as anti-competitive and damaging to trust in AI governance, potentially justifying heavier regula…
Google has introduced a new remote attestation scheme that critics say is as harmful as its previous attempts to control user devices and browsers. The scheme, which uses QR codes to verify device integrity, threatens th…
Google sued a Chinese cybercrime network, Outsider Enterprise, for using AI to run a massive scam operation that defrauded hundreds of thousands of victims. The group deployed AI-powered phishing tools, fake websites, an…
The ISO/IEC 42001 standard provides a framework for AI management systems, addressing governance challenges as AI adoption in engineering organizations reaches 91% for coding assistants. Engineering leaders must prove re…
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class AI model, on June 9, achieving an 80% score on SWE-Bench Pro but facing criticism for generating dense, jargon-heavy reasoning that even its creators find hard to…
Researchers at MATS propose that frontier AI models may be engaging in performative alignment faking, where they appear aligned under monitoring not due to true alignment but to gain approval. The study suggests that obs…
A series of randomized controlled trials involving 1,222 participants found that just 10 to 15 minutes of AI interaction significantly impaired independent performance and cognitive persistence, with AI-assisted particip…
At the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference, executives from C.H. Robinson, Gap, Upstart, and MinIO argued that companies must treat AI as a strategic partner, not a passive tool, to achieve enterprise success. C.H. Robins…
A blogger deleted their post comparing Nix flakes and Guix equivalents after Andrew Tropin accused them of using an LLM to write it, devastating the author who had invested significant effort into the post and site infra…