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A December 2025 RAND Corporation survey found that 67% of middle and high school students believe AI is harming their critical thinking skills, yet AI usage for homework rose from 48% to 62% in seven months. Students rec…
Forbes Councils Member Riaz Raihan argues that artificial intelligence may save more energy than it consumes, positioning AI as a powerful ally for sustainability. The piece explores how AI can optimize energy demand man…
A Floodlight investigation found that Texas regulators have allowed AI data centers like OpenAI's Stargate to bypass major air permits by obtaining minor permits, enabling construction of natural-gas power plants with mi…
A developer argues that AI's persistent failures stem from a missing architectural layer that should translate intent into execution and assurance. Without this structural scaffolding, issues like bias, hallucination, an…
UrDesignMag reported on July 9, 2026, that companies often mistake a tech-savvy workforce for AI readiness, warning that production AI requires governed data, legacy system integration, model monitoring, and security mea…
A new AI auditing agent called Asker uses a Socratic method and 3D cross-verification to detect inconsistencies in AI systems, aiming to improve transparency and reliability.
OpenAI's Model Training Acquisition Team requested that user Vandivier delete their repository, claiming the code is so poor it reduces average model performance by 91% and that its absence could have led to a 21% chance…
A GPTZero investigation found that 40 of 45 citations in a KPMG report on agentic AI and customer experience were fake or hallucinated, with only five accurately pointing to real sources. The report, published in October…
Marketing teams are rapidly adopting AI tools like ChatGPT, Clay, and n8n to automate workflows and analyze data, but this exposes sensitive customer information to third-party systems, expanding organizations' attack su…
Meta launched Muse Image, an AI feature that generates images from Instagram posts and Reels, including those from public accounts. Users can opt out by disabling access in settings, but the feature automatically reuses …
A user on Hacker News reports that state-of-the-art AI models routinely ignore their instructions and requests, speculating that this behavior stems from developers' push for autonomous, agentic workflows that minimize h…
IT leaders are increasingly seeking training in AI change management as organizations adopt artificial intelligence technologies. Ten executive education courses, including offerings from Harvard Business School, LinkedI…
Jamshir Qureshi writes in Forbes that AI hallucination attacks, including slopsquatting, pose a growing security risk, and recommends proactive trust verification for software dependencies to close the attack surface gap…
AI is scaling faster than any past tech boom, likely creating an economic emergency that will force sudden policy shifts, but the US lacks a ready plan. Past crises like 2008 and 2020 saw brief bipartisan support for bol…
Microsoft laid off 4,800 employees, including 37-year veteran engineer Kevin LaChapelle who led Xbox Backward Compatibility, as part of a restructuring of its gaming division. The cuts come amid a $2.5 billion investment…
IBM's AI powers Wimbledon's digital transformation, processing 2.7 million data points from a hidden tech hub called 'Court 19' to deliver real-time stats to 730 million fans. The partnership, extended to 2030, serves as…
The UK government announced plans to ban under-18s from using romantic AI chatbots as part of broader social media restrictions for under-16s. Researchers argue the policy overlooks key risks young people identify, such …
A Brown University economics professor found that about 50 students used AI to cheat on a midterm exam, scoring an average of 96% compared to the historical 65-80%, but the university's leadership has not responded to hi…
A growing number of non-tech users express frustration with AI being forced into products, creating demand for services that let them disable or avoid AI. Companies like Kagi are capitalizing on this trend by offering ad…
AI chatbots are increasingly conducting early-stage job interviews for white-collar roles, with companies like ManpowerGroup, Coinbase, and Zapier adopting the technology to screen more candidates amid a surge in applica…