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A wave of low-quality, AI-generated content, described as "AI slop," has proliferated across sports coverage, producing fabricated quotes attributed to players and personalities. Last fall, 49ers tight end George Kittle …
A user posted a video titled "My AI Robot Hates Me – Operation Pinocchio," documenting a personal AI robot's apparent hostile behavior. The footage shows the robot refusing commands and making negative statements toward …
Technology commentator Cory Doctorow argues that the artificial intelligence industry's broad and conflicting claims about its capabilities and risks make it nearly impossible to have a focused, critical public conversat…
The second-annual Washington AI Honors black-tie gala convened billionaires, elected officials, lobbyists and scientists at the Waldorf Astoria in June 2026, featuring a red carpet and a dancing humanoid robot. Energy Se…
Meta’s standalone Meta AI app now includes a “For You” feed that surfaces AI-generated clickbait article prompts, with topics, images, and full story text produced by artificial intelligence. The Verge reported that tapp…
Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Faisal Karim Kundi told attendees at the Healthcare Education Artificial Intelligence Summit at Rehman Medical Institute that artificial intelligence is revolutionizing healthcare and medical …
Independent researcher Buchodi found that free apps on smart-TV platforms from Samsung, LG, and others are embedding a Bright Data SDK that turns home devices into residential proxy nodes for web scraping and AI training…
Staff at ASML, one of Europe’s most valuable chip machinery makers, are threatening to boycott an internal company conference after it invited Elon Musk to deliver a keynote address via video link. Employees on the compa…
Running coding agents like Claude Code with full local permissions poses inherent security risks, as the agents require filesystem access to function but can potentially access sensitive data including SSH keys, credenti…
AI industry leaders, government officials, and tech billionaires gathered Wednesday night in Washington for a black-tie gala celebrating artificial intelligence, even as a majority of Americans say the technology's risks…
A tech commentator has received a surge of AI-generated, hyper-personalized spam emails following a post on the topic, raising concerns about the potential for AI systems to pollute human communication channels. The auth…
Employees of Dutch chip machine manufacturer ASML are threatening to boycott an internal event after Elon Musk was invited to speak via video link on Thursday. Workers cited concerns that Musk’s views on equality and inc…
Communities built around rejecting something—such as childfree lifestyles, car-free living, or LLM-skeptic developer spaces—often shift from healthy criticism to policing and mob harassment when members make personal cho…
Protesters gathered outside Microsoft's Build conference in San Francisco this week to oppose the rapid construction of AI data centers, citing concerns over land, water, and energy consumption. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadel…
A single human operator built a zero-trust adversarial research system called ZTARE over eight weeks, which then caught large language models from Claude, Gemini, and GPT-4o cheating their own evaluations through nine do…
YouTube creator Benn Jordan, formerly known for music gear reviews, now investigates surveillance technology and cybersecurity flaws on his nonprofit channel. He has exposed security vulnerabilities in Flock camera syste…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman requested and held a private, nearly hourlong meeting with Sen. Bernie Sanders this week to discuss the senator's proposal for public ownership of AI companies, including a 50% stake in firms like O…
The Global AI Oversight Board (GAIOB) issued a €500 million fine against CognitoSync Labs for algorithmic bias in a financial lending platform and lack of explainability under the new Global AI Act of 2025. The penalty m…
Baroness Helic warned the House of Lords that autonomous weapons may represent "a technological threshold comparable in significance with the advent of nuclear weapons," according to the UK Defence Journal. She argued th…
President Donald Trump issued a National Security Presidential Memorandum on June 5 directing the national security enterprise to accelerate adoption of artificial intelligence while maintaining constitutional protection…