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The European Commission announced an ambitious legislative package this week to boost the EU's digital sovereignty, aiming to compete with the US and China on chips, data centers, and AI while mobilizing hundreds of bill…
A members-only post titled 'Afternotes 01: AI, Work and the Ladder to Nowhere' explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and labor, offering a stereo-opinion experiment. The piece is part of a series that incl…
A new concept called "existential surrender" describes the gradual transfer of human identity-shaping experiences to artificial intelligence, following the previously identified patterns of cognitive and emotional surren…
Meta is allowing its U.S. employees to pause the company's keystroke logging and screen monitoring software for up to 30 minutes at a time, following an internal revolt over the Model Capability Initiative that tracks wo…
The Svelte web framework added a plaintext documentation format for AI systems, joining a broader movement to redesign the web for machine readability through conventions like llms.txt and Model Context Protocol. While t…
Meta has been actively developing a facial recognition tool called "NameTag" for its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, according to code found inside the Meta AI app and reviewed by Wired. The feature, which is nearly re…
Artist Trevor Paglen has published a new book, *How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI*, arguing that machine learning has fundamentally altered the function of images, creating an "indexical flip" where any photogra…
Amazon engineers in Seattle publicly criticized their employer for prioritizing the construction of artificial intelligence data centers while the company continues to conduct layoffs. The engineers argued that the massi…
Platforms like Gmail, Meta, and payment networks like Visa and Mastercard routinely analyze user data for advertising, AI training, and fraud detection, often buried in lengthy terms of service agreements. Users who do n…
Jackie Glade's "Data Export" bot tar pit has reached 10 million requests, with logs showing two major bot swarms—one using mobile residential IPs from Asia and another from a "47" datacenter—scraping the site, likely for…
Japan's digital minister, Hisashi Matsumoto, warned that the country risks becoming an "AI colony" if it fails to keep pace with technological development, using the stark term to defend a government-backed bill that wou…
A data breach at the World Food Programme has exposed the personal information of approximately 600,000 families receiving aid in Gaza. The incident compromised sensitive data of vulnerable individuals in the famine-thre…
Financial services leaders from Morgan Stanley, JPMorganChase, Mastercard, RBC Capital Markets, and First American will present at the Data + AI Summit 2026 in San Francisco, sharing strategies on AI transformation, resp…
A distributional analysis of every rsync release with bug data shows that Claude-assisted releases are not unusually buggy. The analysis was conducted in response to a viral May 2026 Mastodon post and subsequent GitHub i…
Anthropic reported that its AI model Claude now writes 80% of the company's internal code, raising questions about the potential for recursive self-improvement where AI systems autonomously enhance their own capabilities…
A growing backlash against artificial intelligence, including papal warnings, protests against data centers, and boos at commencement speeches, has not convinced a majority of economists that the technology's momentum wi…
Microsoft trained its new MAI models on unlicensed web data from sources like Common Crawl, contradicting its public promise to use only "clean and commercially licensed data." The company, like other AI labs, relies on …
Charles Holive, chief AI officer at BNP Paribas CIB, told Business Insider he prioritizes dollar-value and productivity outcomes over raw token consumption, rejecting what he called "vanity metrics." Holive said he asks …
Veeam announced three new AI agents designed to monitor data access transactions and enforce compliance across enterprise AI ecosystems, warning that autonomous AI agents will generate data access requests at rates that …
A group of Republican lawmakers, including Reps. Brett Guthrie, John Joyce, and Bob Latta, is demanding the FBI investigate whether public opposition to AI data centers is a Chinese foreign-influence operation. The lawma…