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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…
Facebook Marketplace sellers are increasingly using AI-generated images of scantily clad women to attract attention to listings for cars, trucks, and other items. Rogelio Llamas of Southern California added an AI-generat…
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on artificial intelligence, which warns that AI dehumanizes society, could prompt more workers to seek religious exemptions from using the technology at their jobs. One software engineer in Nort…
Companies are increasingly labeling existing products as "AI-powered" to capitalize on the technology's hype, placing artificial intelligence into toothbrushes, cat translator apps, and home appliances with no genuine ne…
OpenClaw used code written by developer Gavriel Cohen without authorization, exposing a critical accountability gap in AI agent systems. The incident highlights how AI agents can operate without clear attribution or resp…
Chinese labs previously involved in selling fentanyl precursors have shifted to manufacturing and selling peptides, a gray market now valued at over $100 million annually and growing, according to a new Chainalysis analy…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp compared excessive token consumption in AI workflows, known as "tokenmaxxing," to a pornography addiction during a live interview at Palantir's AIP Con 10. Karp stated that Palantir internally call…
Sergey Brin said at Google DeepMind Build Day that artificial intelligence can enhance human performance rather than replace jobs, using the board game Go as an example. Brin noted that top players Lee Sedol and Ke Jie i…
A new paper titled "The AI Layoff Trap" by Brett Hemenway Falk and Gerry Tsoukalas argues that universal basic income cannot solve the problem of AI-driven mass layoffs, instead proposing a Pigouvian tax on automation as…
Tech titans including Google CEO Sundar Pichai and entrepreneur Marc Andreessen have hailed artificial intelligence as humanity's most revolutionary technology, yet many users are deploying it to generate pornography, ca…
Five workers from diverse backgrounds — including a former attorney, a structural engineer, and a data professional — successfully pivoted into artificial intelligence roles at companies like Microsoft, HubSpot, and Stac…
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati argued in a Bloomberg interview that advanced AI systems require continuous human-machine collaboration rather than periodic oversight, previewing a new interface from her startup Thinking M…