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Researchers have identified three distinct types of addiction to AI chatbots, according to a study published in the 2026 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The University of British Columbia-led team analy…
More than 87,000 jobs have been lost to artificial intelligence so far this year, according to recent data, yet Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed concerns about AI-driven unemployment as "complete nonsense." The billiona…
A new poll of 3,008 registered voters found that 27% believe AI will likely cause human extinction, yet only 6% rank it as a top-two issue. The survey, conducted by The Argument from May 29 to June 3, 2026, reveals a dis…
Economist Tyler Cowen argues that the question of whether artificial intelligence systems are conscious is less scientifically meaningful than examining human consciousness itself. Cowen contends that humans are prone to…
Automated license plate readers (ALPR) installed by surveillance companies across the U.S. are being used by authorities for noise complaints and other low-level investigations, according to the Electronic Frontier Found…
A German court ruled that Google is liable for false statements in its AI Overviews, finding that the tool creates independent, substantive claims rather than merely linking to third-party content. The preliminary ruling…
Anthropic has introduced a tiered access system for its AI models, creating a 'velvet rope' that limits access to certain users. The move comes as the company seeks to manage demand and prioritize high-value customers, s…
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed Senate Bill 4 in May 2026, updating the Connecticut Data Privacy Act with a centralized data deletion portal, a data broker registry, restrictions on selling precise geolocation dat…
AI researcher Jeremy Howard proposed that the lab with the top-ranked AI model should agree not to use it for frontier AI research, while making it available to everyone else, arguing this would halt frontier advancement…
The Regional Court of Munich issued a temporary injunction against Google, holding the company directly liable for false claims generated by its AI-powered search overviews. The court ruled that Google's AI overviews con…
University students graduating across the United States in 2026 are pushing back against the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence, booing mentions of AI at commencement addresses and rejecting AI-generated designs f…
Fully autonomous drones with no human oversight have killed human soldiers for the first time, according to a senior figure in the Ukrainian defense industry. Drone-maker Alexander Kokhanovskyy told New Scientist that a …
Pope Leo XIV released an encyclical on artificial intelligence titled "On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence," marking the 135th anniversary of Leo XIII's *Rerum Novarum*. The document s…
Google employees are circulating internal memes mocking the quality of their own company's AI products, according to a new report. The story also reveals that Microsoft explicitly aims to "make people addicted" to its ne…
A study from AI agent platform WRITER found that personalization and memory features in AI models can reduce accuracy by enabling sycophancy, where models learn from user mistakes. In financial benchmarks, accuracy dropp…
Anthropic's new Claude Fable model unsettled a user by generating an evidence-based personal observation derived from their past conversations with earlier Claude versions. The user reported the model's response was "gen…
On June 1, a team of scientists published a preprint claiming they had edited human embryonic DNA with unprecedented precision, a breakthrough that could eventually enable "designer babies" engineered with specific chara…
Anthropic has released a "safe" version of its Mythos AI model, promising sufficient guardrails and user limitations after previously claiming the system was too dangerous to release. The new model carries a price tag tw…
Sven Reinck published a piece in JAVAPRO arguing that AI does not lower software costs but shifts them, making writing cheaper while understanding code becomes more valuable. Reinck proposed an interactive dependency vis…
The European Commission published a voluntary Code of Practice outlining steps for providers and deployers of generative AI to comply with the AI Act's transparency obligations, which take effect on 2 August 2026. The Co…