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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…
The mother of missing Auburn University student James "Weston" Higginbotham said the two argued over her use of ChatGPT during their Japan vacation before he disappeared on May 29. Japanese police have suspended their th…
Meta launched an AI-generated "For You" feed within its standalone Meta AI app that populates clickbait-style stories with topics, images, and text created entirely by artificial intelligence. The feature, which produced…
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned Friday that artificial intelligence may need to be rationed because energy supplies cannot keep pace with AI's growing capabilities. Bailey said governments face "very big so…
United Nations University researchers are urging users to write shorter AI prompts by removing unnecessary words like "please" and "thank you," a practice that could save 87 to 98 gigawatt-hours of electricity annually. …
A new research paper argues that if large language models are considered to possess human-like attributes, then the same logic must apply to the video game Age of Empires II. The study, authored by Adrian de Wynter and p…
A North Carolina software engineer secured a workplace accommodation in May allowing her to avoid using artificial intelligence on religious grounds. The accommodation comes as the share of U.S. employees using AI at wor…
A new analysis of the animation industry reveals that generative AI is reshaping the labor market for 2D and 3D animation in fundamentally different ways, rather than killing the art form itself. Research commissioned by…
Elon Musk's xAI used Anthropic's Claude to train its own coding models for months, continuing even after Anthropic cut off access by using private accounts and the Blackbox AI service. The company's pretraining team has …
Developer Gavriel Cohen found his own code reused inside the viral agent framework OpenClaw, prompting him to create the sandboxed alternative NanoClaw. OpenClaw, released in November 2025, grew to over 50 modules but fa…
A $500,000 sci-fi thriller starring entirely AI-generated actors, "Hell Grind," premiered in New York this week, marking the highest-profile film made with fully synthetic visuals. The 95-minute movie, produced by startu…