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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…
Apple is testing camera-equipped AirPods that would allow Siri to "see" the wearer's surroundings for navigation, shopping, and AI-driven tasks, according to Bloomberg. The earbuds, which are in late-stage testing with A…
Anthropic published an analysis of 832 accounts banned for malicious cyber activity between March 2025 and March 2026, mapping their behavior to version 18 of the MITRE ATT&CK framework. The study found 67.3% of the acco…
Gabrielle Tao left her senior vice president role at Salesforce in September to launch an AI startup, according to Business Insider. Tao, who spent over two decades at Oracle and Salesforce, cited recent advances in arti…
Erin Maus, a Unitarian Universalist software engineer, secured a religious exemption from using AI at her tech-entertainment job in mid-May after citing environmental and ethical objections. The accommodation comes as Po…
Senior US officials have held preliminary discussions with major AI companies about the federal government acquiring shares in firms building frontier AI, according to a report by NOTUS. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has pitched…
A survey of 272 AI experts from The University of Queensland and MIT FutureTech found a 10% probability of catastrophic AI outcomes within five years, including mass casualties, financial losses, or democratic collapse. …
Americans are using the word "monoculture" to mourn the end of shared cultural experiences like Stephen Colbert's final episode, while simultaneously applying the same term to describe how algorithms and AI are flattenin…
Nearly 80% of U.S. consumers reported a product or service problem in 2025, with two-thirds of those experiencing "rage," according to the National Consumer Rage survey. Households are losing an estimated $165 billion an…
NVIDIA at GTC 2026 presented the full-stack confidential computing capabilities of the Vera Rubin architecture, emphasizing that future AI chips must keep data encrypted throughout computation to prevent access by cloud …
South Korea’s Labour Minister Kim Young-hoon has called on major tech firms, including Samsung Electronics, to share excess profits from the AI-driven chip boom with suppliers, subcontractors, and workers. Kim warned tha…
An independent developer building a niche Catholic AI application must navigate strict Apple App Store guidelines while ensuring absolute theological accuracy, as even minor AI hallucinations can contradict centuries of …
Billionaires Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Senator Elizabeth Warren have proposed overhauling the U.S. tax code in response to artificial intelligence, including ideas such as taxing labor at lower rates, taxing AI-specifi…
Psychologist Gloria Mark of the University of California, Irvine, has found that average human attention spans have shrunk from 2.5 minutes in 2003 to just 47 seconds by 2020, a decline she attributes to increased use of…
Effective Altruism Global 2026 in London highlighted a growing gap between the movement's research-focused community and the practitioners needed to implement its ideas. An architect attending the conference told an EA p…
Anthropic's essay "When AI builds itself," published in early June 2026, includes an unnamed employee's reflection that Business Insider highlighted as capturing workplace AI confusion: "On days where everything works we…