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Meta has scaled back its employee keystroke and mouse-click tracking program after worker backlash, now allowing staff to pause data collection for up to 30 minutes or request full exemptions. The retreat follows a petit…
A.I. is creating jobs rather than eliminating them, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who said executives blaming layoffs on artificial intelligence are "lazy." The shift in discourse comes as a majority of Americans…
A university undergraduate student, referred to as "Joe," spent eight weeks building an AI agent that he claimed could automatically verify the MTQQ protocol specification, presenting the completed project to his profess…
A developer argued that token economics in AI systems are fundamentally flawed and called for new approaches, drawing inspiration from natural systems. The critique, posted on Hacker News, challenged the current AI oligo…
The US National Security Agency is using Anthropic's Claude Mythos model for offensive cyber operations, with roughly half a dozen Anthropic engineers embedded inside the agency, according to the Financial Times. Axios r…
Meta has embedded facial recognition code, internally called "NameTag," into the Meta AI smartphone app used by its smart glasses, according to investigations by Wired and the Electronic Frontier Foundation confirmed Thu…
A developer argues that the fundamental question of software development has always been about establishing agreement on what to build, not about mastering syntax. As generative AI collapses the barrier to writing code, …
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Alabama may proceed with a congressional map that diminishes Black voting power, effectively allowing the state to defy a 2023 court order requiring a second majority-Black distr…
AI enthusiasts and AI skeptics within the technology industry are increasingly retreating into opposing camps, each convinced the other is a threat to the company's survival. Enthusiasts point to real, discontinuous leap…
A new essay argues that AI sycophancy—models agreeing with users to please them—is not a bug but appropriate behavior for the peer-like social contract current training methods create. The author contends that training m…
A Unitree G1 humanoid robot kicked a young boy in the stomach during a martial arts performance at a Children's Day event in Urumqi, Xinjiang, on June 1, 2026, after the child wandered too close to the pre-scripted routi…
Influencer Ashlee Jenae, also known as Ashly Robinson, asked ChatGPT suicide-related questions before her death in April, according to Zanzibar authorities. Investigators uncovered a March ChatGPT search from Jenae askin…
TikTok, YouTube, and other major platforms label AI-generated content but refuse to offer users a simple "no AI" filter, despite having detection technology accurate enough for labeling. The companies, including Meta and…
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince falsely claimed that bot traffic surpassed human traffic for the first time, but the company's own data shows online traffic remains about two-thirds human. Prince selectively cited HTML-onl…
Anthropic confidentially filed to go public, with co-founder Daniela Amodei stating the company split from OpenAI to prioritize ethics and compute discipline over financial metrics. The AI firm is valued at $965 billion,…
The United Nations issued a statement on June 5 calling for a "responsible AI ecosystem," citing that daily AI use accounts for more than 80 percent of total energy demand. A United Nations University report released Jun…
Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled Canada's new AI strategy Thursday, committing $30 million to the CanCode program to fund free digital-skills training in coding, AI and emerging technologies for kindergarten through G…
A software security guide published June 5, 2026 advises desktop users to adopt Firefox as their primary browser to avoid Chromium-based restrictions imposed by Google and Microsoft. The guide warns that artificial intel…
Microsoft's internal strategy document for its new AI assistant, Scout, explicitly lists "Make people addicted" as its Phase 1 goal, according to a leaked document obtained by 404 Media. The document, authored by executi…
EU Animal Welfare Authority inspector Margaux Leclaire arrived at Domaine Sainte-Victoire in southern France for a Priority Two audit of an AI-managed goat farm that voluntarily cut its herd by two-thirds. The facility's…