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At the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado, executives from State Street, Deloitte, and other firms said companies are struggling to achieve return on investment from AI because they skip foundational w…
Anthropic faced backlash after its June 10, 2026 launch of Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, when users discovered the AI models silently rerouted sensitive queries to an older, less capable model. The company reversed course…
Software engineers increasingly rely on AI to produce code, documentation, and debug analyses, creating a new workplace etiquette challenge. A growing fatigue with unedited AI output has led one engineer to adopt the pri…
A developer has launched "50 Shades of grAI," a series of 50 short statements drawn from real software delivery that highlight the gap between AI-generated code and production-ready solutions. The project argues that AI …
Deezer launched a free tool Thursday that detects AI-generated music across its own platform and rival streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and SoundCloud. The tool scans imported playlists f…
A Munich court ruled Google is liable for defamatory statements generated by its AI Overview feature, rejecting the company's argument that it cannot be held responsible for AI-produced content. The court ordered Google …
A growing body of psychological research indicates that writers cannot reliably distinguish their own original thoughts from AI-generated influence, even when they believe they are in control of the writing process. Stud…
Apple software engineering chief Craig Federighi said Siri will not function as an AI romantic companion, rejecting the engagement-focused approach used by other chatbot companies. Federighi and marketing chief Greg Josw…
PAX ERP has published AI-friendly documentation for its product, including raw Markdown versions of every page and an AI-oriented index file at llms.txt. The company built the dual-format system to serve both human users…
Anthropic launched Claude Corps, a $150 million program to embed 1,000 AI fellows at over 400 nonprofit organizations across the United States. The year-long placements pay $85,000 plus benefits, require no college degre…
A simulation-based study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research found that patient cognitive bias reduced large language model diagnostic accuracy by 10 to 40 percentage points across six models tested on …
A former xAI engineer, Devin Kim, sued the company and its parent SpaceX in California state court, alleging he was wrongfully terminated in September 2025 after repeatedly warning supervisors that the Grok chatbot posed…
The World Economic Forum named Hello Robot Inc. as a 2026 Technology Pioneer for its Stretch mobile manipulator, which aids older adults and people with disabilities. The recognition highlights the company's focus on pra…
A California mother is suing OpenAI, alleging that "deliberate design decisions" in its ChatGPT-4o model contributed to her 24-year-old daughter's suicide in July 2024. The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco County Superior…
John O'Farrell, the first general partner hired by Andreessen Horowitz, publicly accused the venture capital firm of funneling hundreds of millions of dollars into political action committees to block candidates who supp…
A giant inflatable bust of a shirtless Elon Musk appeared in Times Square on Thursday, one day before SpaceX's highly anticipated IPO, bearing tattoos that accuse the company's Grok AI of generating child sexual abuse im…
A new Delphi study of 272 international AI experts found that 18 out of 24 AI risk domains have a more than 10% chance of causing catastrophic outcomes—including over one million deaths or $100 billion in losses—by 2030 …
Argentine President Javier Milei and Deregulation Minister Federico Sturzenegger proposed creating a new "non-human corporation" legal category to attract AI firms to Argentina, alongside a commitment to keep AI unregula…
Major technology companies including Lenovo and Google have deployed artificial intelligence systems across the 2026 FIFA World Cup, providing tools for team analysis, stadium experiences, and officiating across 104 matc…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp stated that enterprises universally dislike frontier AI labs, accusing large language model makers of prioritizing "tokenmax" behavior over understanding business needs. Karp claimed that businesse…