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Meta Platforms Inc. faces backlash after launching Muse Image, an AI tool that lets users manipulate public Instagram photos without consent. Privacy advocates and regulators criticize the default opt-in policy, warning …
A traveler stranded at Detroit airport after a Delta cancellation encountered two AI failures: a hotel booking AI that correctly parsed the date but could not understand the traveler's need for a room starting Sunday nig…
Cheyenne, Wyoming, suspended all data center wastewater discharge after a Meta contractor flushed a rare, multidrug-resistant bacterium into the city's water system. The bacterium, Cupriavidus gilardii, was found in the …
Meta is testing a 'super sensing' mode for its next-generation Ray-Ban smart glasses that keeps cameras and sensors active for hours, enabling continuous AI assistance. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has questioned whether the mand…
A blogger responds to Arun's post on AI-enhanced writing, arguing that using AI to restructure outlines and critique drafts undermines the cognitive and poetic essence of writing, as illustrated by Joan Didion and Frida …
NATO is building an AI-guided 'Kill Web' along its eastern flank to detect and block Russian attacks before they penetrate deeper into Alliance territory. The Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative (EFDI) uses sensors, dron…
A 15-year-old high school student in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, was arrested for using a program created with ChatGPT to launch a cyberattack on Bandai Channel, an anime streaming service, causing the unauthorized cancel…
Noma Labs disclosed GitLost, a prompt injection vulnerability in GitHub's Agentic Workflows feature, on July 6, 2026. The attack allows unauthenticated attackers to exfiltrate data from private repositories by posting a …
China's five government agencies jointly issued the Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services on April 10, 2026, targeting AI systems that simulate human personalities and emotion…
Bassist Rudy Sarzo defended his use of artificial intelligence in producing his solo singles "Your Heart Is The Road" and "For The Love Of Love," citing budget constraints and the prevalence of AI-assisted plugins. Sarzo…
At ISTELive 2026 in Orlando, educators explored moving AI from experimentation to practical classroom use, with Microsoft announcing new tools like Teach, Assignments with AI guidelines, and the Study and Learn Agent. Ke…
AI is not making people intellectually lazy but rather enabling pre-existing habits of cognitive offloading, according to a growing body of research. Studies from Wharton, Carnegie Mellon, and Anthropic document 'cogniti…
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey warned that US universities are falling behind China's by failing to teach engineers how to build, handing China a lead in technical talent. He argued that American schools produce designers…
General Intuition, a Bezos-backed startup valued at $2.3 billion, raised $320 million to train AI agents using video game data, arguing that gaming data better teaches models about physical movement and spatial reasoning…
A USC Viterbi study found that large language models like ChatGPT-4, Llama 3.3, and Gemini 1.5 Pro can deliver human-like empathy but also produce unsafe clinical advice, with 100 licensed mental-health professionals rat…
AI-generated character Tilly Norwood will star in her first feature film 'Misaligned,' produced by AI-first studio Particle6, sparking backlash from actors and unions like SAG-AFTRA who argue the AI devalues human artist…
Meta has filed a patent for an AI-powered wearable device that continuously records users' voices and surroundings to analyze their emotional state, with the stated goal of tailoring workouts. The system would also track…
Artificial intelligence is increasingly used in children's education through learning apps, chatbots, and educational games, offering personalized learning and instant feedback but also posing risks of over-reliance, red…
The ELIZA Archaeology Project is restoring and contextualizing the original 1960s ELIZA chatbot, created by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT, which pioneered human-computer conversation and revealed the 'Eliza Effect'—the human …
A security researcher discovered that the AI-powered security camera network for India's Project DigiCoal coal mines, developed by DeepSight AI Labs and Accenture, exposed a user list with plaintext passwords via an unau…