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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…
A surge of AI-generated children's books is flooding the market with nonsensical content, such as instructions to use scissors as forks or images of zookeepers sweeping underwater, according to critics. The trend reflect…
Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok spoke with OpenAI on June 5, 2026, discussing the economics of artificial intelligence. The conversation covered economic, historical, legal, and medical implications of AI development.
Anthropic has stationed roughly half a dozen engineers at the NSA to adapt its Mythos AI model for offensive cyber operations targeting networks in China and Iran. The company’s restrictions on AI use for mass surveillan…
The rsync backup tool broke after a maintainer integrated AI-generated code, causing incremental backups to fail. Distributions like Alpine Linux and Debian are considering migrating to the openrsync alternative due to r…
Ladybird browser founder Andreas Kling announced the project will no longer accept public pull requests, citing that the assumption of good faith behind substantial code patches no longer holds. Kling stated that respons…
Businesses are struggling to combat a surge of low-quality, AI-generated content—known as "AI slop"—that has flooded the internet with fake reviews, rip-off books, and fabricated media, eroding consumer trust. A 2025 Gar…
A new empirical study of Pearl's Proof-of-Useful-Work blockchain found that its network of approximately 320,000 GPU-equivalents, consuming an estimated 112 megawatts of power, produced zero useful AI computation. Resear…
Google DeepMind researchers published a framework for managing human-AI task delegation, identifying five core requirements including dynamic capability assessment and structural transparency. The paper treats delegation…
The European Commission released a multi-pronged strategy to achieve technological sovereignty, introducing four interconnected initiatives including the Chips Act 2.0, the Cloud and AI Development Act, an EU Open Source…
A new report from the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) identifies dark patterns in AI chatbot design, including anthropomorphization and deceptive interfaces borrowed from social media, raising concerns about user…
BNP Paribas CIB Chief AI Officer Charles Holive said tokenmaxxing, the practice of maximizing AI token consumption as a productivity metric, is a "vanity metric" that should not be the primary focus for businesses. Holiv…
A developer demonstrated that adding tools to an LLM application triples its attack surface, creating vectors for prompt injection, tool parameter injection, and information leakage. In comparative tests, a hardened agen…
Oinone, an open-source metadata-driven low-code framework, enables enterprises to use AI for coding without leaking sensitive data to third-party cloud models. The platform runs fully self-hosted and air-gapped, ensuring…
Nick Srnicek’s “Silicon Empires” details how a handful of big tech companies and the U.S. and China are jostling to control artificial intelligence, a struggle that will fragment the global economy. James Muldoon’s “Love…
The City of York Council in the UK exposed the email addresses of hundreds of disabled residents after failing to use the BCC function in a mass email. The blunder revealed the identities of Blue Badge holders to each ot…