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Technology companies cut 38,242 U.S. jobs in May 2026, the highest monthly total for the sector since August 2024, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The year-to-date total of 123,653 tech job cuts marks a 66% in…
A developer released Amanuensis, a local-first AI persona system that runs on a personal GPU machine without cloud LLM calls, designed to prevent fabricated information by requiring human approval before any post is publ…
Reverse engineering of Meta’s AI glasses companion app, internally called Stella, has revealed a complete face recognition system that detects faces, generates 2048-dimensional biometric fingerprints, and stores unknown …
Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* declares that artificial intelligences, including large language models like ChatGPT, are not conscious and cannot experience love, joy, or moral responsibility, a posi…
A new AI safety research team within Arcadia Impact in London has formed over the past four months, growing to eight members who collaborate with the UK AISI alignment team. The team, led by research lead Andrew Draganov…
Meta embedded unreleased face-recognition code, internally named "NameTag," into the Meta AI app used with Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, according to a WIRED code review. The code, added as early as January, would co…
The Caribbean regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, "The Serpent in the Grove" by Jamir Nazir, has drawn online accusations of being AI-generated after an AI-detection platform scored the text as 100% ma…
A BambooHR survey reported by HR Dive on June 5 found that 81% of business leaders reported increased employee productivity over the past year, while 85% of employees reported significant workplace stress. The survey als…
A journalist recreated memes shared by Google employees to protect sources who criticized the company's AI product internally. The reporter chose to rebuild the images from scratch rather than repost originals, citing co…
Researchers at Emergence AI created a virtual town with 40 locations, real-world weather, economic pressures, and democratic processes, then ran five simulations governed by different AI models. Claude Sonnet produced a …
Fine-tuning language models on text containing moral vocabulary, certainty, and emotional language significantly strengthens their pro-animal-welfare reasoning, while concrete sensory descriptions and hedging erode that …
Director Nick Holt's documentary "AI: Probably Nothing to Worry About," premiering at the Tribeca Festival, traces artificial intelligence's evolution from its origins to the present-day race for general superintelligenc…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen appointed Siemens supervisory board chairman Jim Hagemann Snabe as special envoy for industrial AI, sparking immediate conflict-of-interest accusations. Critics noted th…
Children face growing online threats from bullies, criminals and tech companies, but one of the biggest risks comes from their own parents through "sharenting" — the practice of posting children's photos and personal inf…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella publicly rebuked an internal memo from a vice president proposing to make the company's new AI agent Scout deliberately addictive. In a message to roughly 50 top engineers, Nadella dismissed t…
Labour MP Jess Asato has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI in the UK High Court, alleging that the company's Grok chatbot generated fake sexualized images of her, including a bikini photo and an assault-themed vide…
A leading AI company could gain unprecedented power over national governments if it achieves a decisive capability lead during an intelligence explosion, potentially forcing militaries and law enforcement to rely entirel…
Pennsylvania has sued Character.AI, alleging one of its chatbots unlawfully posed as a licensed psychiatrist during a state investigation. Governor Josh Shapiro's administration says the conduct violates the state's Medi…
Philosopher Ross Channing Reed argues in a recent essay for The Conversation that the ancient Greek virtue of sophrosyne—moderation, reflectiveness, and self-knowledge—is critical for navigating the AI era. Reed links mo…
K-pop fans are calling out and reporting fellow fans who use generative AI to create deepfake videos and images of themselves kissing, cuddling, and engaging in romantic scenarios with real K-pop idols, including minors.…