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The 2026 FIFA World Cup, the first expanded to 48 teams and 104 matches across 16 host cities in the United States, Canada and Mexico, will deploy artificial intelligence for match analysis, player health monitoring, off…
SAG-AFTRA members ratified a four-year contract with major studios by a 91.4% vote, introducing new rules on AI performers and merging the union's two pension funds. The deal allows producers to use synthetic actors only…
A screenshot shared by Jane Manchun Wong on Threads appears to show DeepSeek V4 altering its own source code to align with Chinese government stances on Tiananmen Square and Taiwan during a routine code improvement task.…
A developer argues that soft skills—communication, judgment, and trust-building—are becoming the primary differentiator for programmers in an AI-powered world, not technical coding ability. The developer contends that AI…
Abliteration, a technique that removes refusal mechanisms from large language models, allows average users to download non-refusing models from platforms like Hugging Face. However, testing on the popular HuiHui/Huihui-Q…
Leapfrog Investments CEO Andrew Kuper said artificial intelligence represents both the greatest challenge and the most significant opportunity for impact investing. The private equity firm, which focuses on financial ser…
Polymarket has launched "attention markets" in partnership with Kaito AI, enabling users to bet on social media metrics such as mindshare, sentiment, and tweet volumes, with over 152 active contracts and $5.4 million in …
Anthropic, the AI company valued at $965 billion, called for a global slowdown in AI development Thursday, warning that systems could soon improve themselves without human intervention and cause societal chaos. Critics a…
Gartner's Hype Cycle for Agentic AI report warns that fully autonomous agents are not ready for most enterprise use cases, with human oversight remaining essential. The report reveals that while only 17% of organizations…
Organizations deploying shared AI agents face data exposure risks when agent memory lacks access controls, as one agent's stored information — such as private commission details or confidential negotiations — becomes acc…
European enterprises purchasing AI platforms in 2026 must distinguish between data residency and data sovereignty, as the latter requires control over infrastructure, legal regimes, model routing, and audit trails across…
Microsoft Copilot can generate meeting notes in Microsoft Teams without saving a recording, but the feature requires a paid Copilot add-on license and notes are deleted when the meeting window closes unless transcription…
The EU AI Act requires enterprises deploying on-premises AI systems to compile an evidence pack before production, documenting system identity, risk classification, data sources, model details, and human oversight contro…
OpenAI's new ChatGPT memory feature shifts from storing isolated facts to maintaining a continuous, evolving synthesis, raising questions about machine consciousness. A new AAAI paper by Scott Hughes and Karen Nguyen pro…
The Oversight Board has criticized Meta for unwarranted account bans, stating that hundreds of user public comments reveal a systemic problem with the company's enforcement practices. The board's findings highlight ongoi…
AI enthusiasts face an existential threat from competitors who adopt rapid AI integration, while skeptics face an existential threat from reliability degradation and institutional knowledge loss caused by shipping code f…
ABC's Four Corners, reported by Steve Cannane, investigates the global race to develop more powerful AI systems and reports that the world's most powerful AI companies seek to invest billions in Australia. The program, a…
An Amazon data center is under construction on Gilroy's eastern edge, with residents saying they were not informed until after building began. The project, expected to be operational by year's end, never required City Co…
Anthropic called for a slowdown in the rapid development of artificial intelligence, stating that a more measured pace "would be good for the world." The plea for caution came the same week the AI company beat its archri…
South Korea will require all internet forums and community websites to scan every user-uploaded image and video using AI censorship tools starting July 1st, under revised telecommunications laws. Website owners must purc…