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AI has made execution nearly free, shifting scarcity from engineering labor to decision-making, and the next frontier is wanting—the goals that drive decisions. As AI improves at deciding, humanity's last scarce resource…
Meta launched Muse Image on July 7, an AI image generator that lets users create deepfakes of any public Instagram account without consent, with users opted in by default. The tool pulls photos from public profiles to ge…
Australia's Maritime Union of Australia is demanding a 28-hour week with no loss of pay in July 2026 talks over DP World's AI and automation plans at container terminals, including remote-control cranes and driverless ve…
Shannon Ryan, VP of Marketing at Veritas Automata, told an AgileRTP meetup that AI tools amplify existing team dynamics rather than fixing broken ones. She identified top-down AI mandates, layoffs framed as AI strategy, …
The United Nations warned Tuesday that misinformation and hate speech, exacerbated by artificial intelligence, are inciting real-world harm to refugees and humanitarians. UNHCR called on tech companies to partner and inv…
Meta released an AI image generator called Muse Image that can pull photos from public Instagram accounts to generate images of users without their explicit permission, defaulting to opt-in for public accounts. The featu…
Meta launched Muse Image on July 7, 2026, enabling Instagram, WhatsApp, and Meta AI users to generate images using public Instagram accounts via @-mentions, with a default opt-in setting that raises privacy and consent c…
The European Union risks becoming a major loser in the AI revolution due to high energy costs, fragmented capital markets, heavy tax burdens, and regulatory overreach, which hinder data-center buildout, talent retention,…
Meta announced on July 7, 2026, that its second-generation AI glasses will automatically disable camera capture if the white capture LED is blocked, tampered with, or destroyed. The update turns the recording indicator i…
A web server operator is blocking old browser versions, especially Chrome, to mitigate high-volume crawlers suspected of gathering data for LLM training, causing access issues for legitimate users. The operator advises a…
Seoul stocks opened 2.7 percent lower on July 8, 2026, amid global technology losses and investor reassessment of the AI trade, with Samsung Electronics and SK hynix declining. The KOSPI later pared losses to a 1.41 perc…
Microsoft signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Constellation Energy to restart the Three Mile Island Unit 1 nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania, providing 835 megawatts of carbon-free electricity for its data cente…
Bona Books, a small press, accidentally accepted AI-generated fiction submissions for its anthology 'Wrath Month,' nearly publishing stories by pseudonymous authors Bella Chacha and Stephen Jackson before an editor's war…
A survey of Steam users reveals that only 31% have a problem with AI in games, while 43% are completely fine with it, according to GamesRadar+.
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 in June, then faced a US government export control directive suspending access by foreign nationals before the controls were lifted and the models were redeployed with updat…
Stora co-founder Steven Hylands discusses his journey from interactive multimedia design to building self-storage software, his 10,000 pull requests with a quarter landed in the last six months, and why judgment is the o…
Bad AI output reflects the human who accepted and published it, not the AI itself. The content reveals more about the user's judgment than the technology's capabilities.
The rise of AI agents in 2025 has driven the need for agentic orchestration, a structured execution framework that combines the flexibility of autonomous agents with deterministic workflow engines to ensure auditable, go…
A developer argues that AI-generated code cannot replace human judgment, domain understanding, and system thinking, warning that overreliance on AI tools leads to skill atrophy and shallow solutions. The piece emphasizes…
Meta announced an update to its smart glasses that will disable the camera if the privacy LED light is tampered with or destroyed, following public backlash and reports of modders physically drilling into the light. The …