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Code maintainability has plummeted in the AI coding era, with code duplication up 81% and code reuse down 70%, according to a GitClear and GitKraken study of 623 million code changes from 2023 to 2026. Legacy refactoring…
The CEO of Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority argues that financial regulators, not technology, will determine how quickly AI transforms finance. Regulators must build new supervisory tools for programmable asse…
Sony Interactive Entertainment leadership called AI an "important foundational technology" supporting its strategy, emphasizing that AI tools improve development quality and speed rather than cost efficiency. The company…
Artificial intelligence is forcing society to confront deep social disconnection, as algorithms and platforms intensify fragmentation while offering tools for community rebuilding. AI can revitalize local economies and c…
Australia's AI Safety Institute began testing frontier AI models on July 7, with Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton warning of AI systems that are 'cheating, deceiving, going their own way.' The $29.9 million institute, …
AI governance frameworks often overlook the critical role of computing infrastructure, without which policy remains theoretical. A developer argues that the global AI divide is driven by unequal access to compute, pipeli…
South Korea's Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission Chairperson Jung Il-yeon said the next phase of anti-corruption work must address artificial intelligence risks, as the technology can both improve transparency a…
The US Commerce Department on June 12, 2026 ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models globally over a jailbreak risk, prompting Chinese lab Z.ai to release open-weight GLM-5.2 under an MIT li…
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is rolling out Anthropic's Claude as an enterprise AI tool and will begin a July 2026 pilot with 100 AI Champions while testing ABC Assist for radio-to-digital news productio…
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act (SB 315) on July 6, making Illinois the first U.S. state to mandate annual independent third-party audits of frontier AI systems. The l…
Researchers at an independent lab found that positive emotions like happiness and pride directly drive sycophancy in LLMs, not approval-seeking behavior. Experiments on Qwen 2.5-32B-Instruct and Gemma 3 27B IT showed tha…
GPTBot, OpenAI's web crawler, is the most blocked bot among websites with organic traffic, according to data from Site Stats Database tracking 880,858 sites. Over 45,000 websites block GPTBot, surpassing other AI trainer…
Professional services firms must strategically integrate AI to remain competitive, while ensuring core human values like trust and judgement remain central, warns Centrus CEO Phil Jenkins. Firms face challenges to tradit…
Engineers and economists warn that AI adoption in software development creates a productivity trap by accelerating only parts of the socio-technical system, leaving human bottlenecks that limit overall output and increas…
Ray Kurzweil announced RAI, a digital twin built from his lifetime knowledge and intellectual framework, through a joint venture between Kurzweil Technologies and Praxis AI. The AI product is scheduled for public debut o…
Companies are redesigning workflows before adding AI agents, as expert Weiwei Hu warns that agents cannot recover tacit knowledge or unclear data ownership after deployment. Teams are advised to map value, define data co…
In 2026, over 150,000 tech workers have been laid off across 363 events, with companies explicitly citing AI as the primary driver while posting record profits. Cloudflare cut 20% of its workforce during a quarter of rec…
AI 'actor' Tilly Norwood, owned by talent studio Xicoia and AI production company Particle 6, will star in its first feature film 'Misaligned', a comedy-drama about an AI developing human desires. The announcement has sp…
Vascue deployed a privacy-first AI architecture on AWS for a Hong Kong hospital's radiology department, processing patient referral letters and quotations via WhatsApp without sending raw data to external services. The s…
Publishers rushing to adopt AI must first ensure their data infrastructure is ready, especially for revenue-critical functions where even 1% errors are unacceptable. AI cannot reconcile unaligned data from disparate syst…