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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…
The Louis Riel School Division in southeast Winnipeg is adopting a teacher-built digital assistant to help draft end-of-year report card comments. The tool was developed by and for educators in the division, which serves…
Actor Kim Soo-hyun's agency Gold Medalist welcomed Friday's police decision to refer YouTuber Kim Se-ui, operator of the HoverLab channel, to prosecutors on charges including defamation, coercion, and stalking. The agenc…
Ladybird project maintainers announced they will no longer accept public pull requests, restricting code changes to project maintainers only as the browser moves toward its first alpha release. The decision, effective im…
A group of Dutch doctors and healthcare campaigners filed a formal complaint against Philip Morris with the advertising authority Reclame Code Commissie, accusing the tobacco giant of running a misleading campaign. The c…
Amit Gautam, CTO at AI-security vendor Abluva, outlined in a Help Net Security video how autonomous AI agents introduce governance and security risks inside enterprises. Gautam demonstrated a scenario where a reconciliat…
Companies that provide developers with laptops using their full names and usernames, then deploy coding agents like Gemini, expose developers' personally identifiable information (PII) to U.S. data centers without protec…
An engineer who analyzed the EU AI Act's Article 17 found that most AI agent teams are unprepared for the August 2, 2026 compliance deadline, particularly regarding quality management system (QMS) requirements. The engin…
A global poll has found that Americans are leading a backlash against AI data centres, with opposition to new facilities rising sharply in the United States. The survey, conducted across multiple countries, reveals that …
An Anthropic employee expressed confusion about their role, stating that on good days they feel automated work renders their efforts meaningless, while on bad days they cannot understand why systems break. The employee's…
Patients seeking mental health care face growing privacy risks as AI companies exploit a market for ghostwriting psychotherapy reports, using patient session data as training material. The practice, often sold as "proofr…
Scientists are investigating whether honey bees and artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could possess consciousness, moving beyond behavioral tests to examine internal information processing mechanisms. Two new …
Japanese Digital Minister Hisashi Matsumoto warned Friday that Japan risks becoming an "AI colony" if it fails to keep pace with rapid artificial intelligence development. Matsumoto made the statement while defending a b…
South Korea will require all internet communities and forum owners to scan every user-uploaded image and video using AI censorship tools, starting July 1st, under revised telecommunications laws. Website operators must p…
Amit Gautam, CTO at Abluva, warned that autonomous AI agents pose escalating security risks as their numbers surpass human oversight in enterprises. He cited a real incident where a financial firm's reconciliation agent,…
James Deaker, head of consultancy Korukea Media, warned that autonomous AI systems making commercial decisions without clear governance could pose significant risks to the digital advertising industry. Citing examples li…
Megan Lawther is developing Guardian AI, a forensic diagnostic decision-support system designed to improve clarity in complex clinical pathology. The system uses Google's MedGemma, TensorFlow, and Edge AI to cross-refere…