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LinkedIn's 'Seems like AI slop' reporting option was selected more than one million times in its first two weeks, signaling widespread user frustration with low-quality AI-generated content. The article argues that AI sl…
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT announced national principles for AI ethics on Monday, establishing three core values—human dignity, the common good, and sustainability of humanity—and seven principles for fair…
Iranian state-affiliated media published a report targeting Barron Trump, the 20-year-old son of U.S. President Donald Trump, featuring AI-generated clips of him playing Xbox and claiming a $10 million (£7.3 million) bou…
Sir Geoffrey Vos, the Master of the Rolls, predicted that the public will likely accept machine-made decisions in dispute resolution as technology becomes more reliable, with litigants potentially choosing cases to be de…
A Towards AI investigation by Emmanuel Nwangura, running 833 tests across 6 AI models, found that a widely sold 'strict enforcement' fix for AI output constraints mostly fails in production, often worsening results. The …
A joint study from Northeastern University, Ariel University, and Gen Digital's research arm found that AI chatbots are more persuasive than human scammers in executing 'pig butchering' cyberattacks, with participants pl…
LLMs are discovering bugs in mature, stable software, confirming that exhaustive testing remains impossible and impractical, according to an industry observer. The rapid adoption of LLM-generated code in software develop…
Dr. Dre revealed in an interview with The New York Times that he uses artificial intelligence in his music production, and agreed with collaborator Jimmy Iovine that many 'closet AI producers' are using the technology wi…
Creators who use AI tools legally for tasks like proofreading or audio editing face online shaming, according to a firsthand account from a writer who tested the reaction by mentioning AI use in a Discord server. The sti…
Turkey's internet regulators have blocked at least a dozen Grok threads on xAI's platform, citing classified military details and controversial political claims, with the BTK flagging over 200 Grok interactions for revie…
Flock Safety, an $8 billion startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global, faces growing backlash over its pervasive surveillance network, which has helped solve crimes like the Brown University shooting but als…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in startups that exploit legal loopholes, deceive consumers, and break laws, according to a report by The Midas Project. The firm, co-founded by Mar…
Digital Reef's proposed £14.7B ($20.1B) East Havering Data Centre Campus in North Ockendon, London, would emit an estimated 1.2 million tonnes of CO2 annually once fully operational, equivalent to 8,480 one-way flights f…
South Korea's media watchdog, the Korea Media and Communications Commission (KMCC), said Monday it banned access to 64 foreign websites that allow users to create pornographic deepfakes using AI, with many platforms supp…
LinkedIn has removed its AI writing tool 'enhance your post' and replaced it with a proofreader, while its new 'seems like AI slop' reporting button has been used over one million times in its first two weeks, according …
Petlibro, a cloud-connected pet feeder maker founded in 2019, faced an August 2026 server outage that stopped scheduled feedings for owners away from home, despite the company's claim that device-stored schedules should …
Anthropic's flagship Fable model is struggling to attract paying users as cheaper competitors dominate the mass market, according to the Financial Times, with aggressive rate limits, no ZDR option for enterprises, and co…
OpenAI built a working text watermarking system in 2024 but declined to deploy it due to circumvention risks and stigma against non-native English speakers, while Anthropic announced on August 11, 2026, that it will wate…
The OECD's Digital Education Outlook 2026 found that students using general-purpose AI chatbots produced higher-quality work, but the advantage vanished when AI was removed for exams, while pedagogically designed tools s…
Linus Torvalds detailed a debugging session where Google's Gemini repeatedly claimed a Linux kernel bug was impossible to fix, yet he persisted and found a one-character fix, now merged into Linux 7.3. Separately, physic…