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ESPN aired an AI-altered moving portrait of former San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker during Game 1 of the 2026 NBA Finals, the network confirmed to Front Office Sports. The altered image, derived from a 2003 championsh…
More than 35% of University of California, Berkeley students failed an entry-level computer science course this spring, a sharp increase from the typical 7% failure rate. Professors attributed the spike to students over-…
A new philosophical paper argues that the singularity hypothesis—the claim that self-improving artificial agents will rapidly become vastly more intelligent than humans—rests on unsupported growth assumptions. The author…
A developer argues that AI-assisted development changes testing strategy beyond simple automation, forcing teams to decide whether AI should help write tests, assist in review, or only support debugging. The key insight …
Hunter Biden corrected an AI-generated image of a 2028 presidential campaign flyer on Thursday, objecting that it showed a meth pipe rather than a crack pipe in his mouth. The image, shared by X user @SoundDobad, feature…
Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to go public, with Anthropic filing a confidential S-1 statement and nearing a $50B revenue run rate, while both companies remain unprofitable and heavily dependent on cash infusions. Bank…
Code for an unreleased facial recognition feature called "NameTag" was discovered in Meta's AI app, according to a Wired report. The feature, which is not currently enabled or available to customers, would allow Meta sma…
AI tools are changing the role of senior software engineers from writing code to making architectural decisions and validating AI-generated output, according to a developer who has used AI extensively for code generation…
A developer has built a "re-derivation gate" that checks whether the source conditions for a time-to-live grant have changed since the grant was issued, rather than relying solely on timestamp expiry. In a test called CL…
A distinction has emerged within effective altruism between "EA 1.0," the pre-2013 global poverty-focused movement, and "EA 2.0," the post-2017 version centered on AI and existential risk. The author argues that critics …
Naked Capitalism published an essay arguing that claims about AI-driven social progress remain unproven and contradictory, citing $757.3 billion in private-sector AI investment from 2013-2025 and projections that global …
An internal Microsoft document titled "ClawPilot: Overview and Plan with Project Lobster" obtained by 404 Media outlines a three-phase roadmap for the new AI assistant Scout, with the first phase labeled "Make people add…
Amazon engineers publicly criticized the company at a Seattle City Council hearing this week, accusing the tech giant of spending $200 billion on AI infrastructure and data centers while cutting 30,000 corporate jobs in …
A short fiction piece published today in *Nature* retells the biblical Book of Job as a story about AI alignment, adversarial testing, and machine theodicy. The narrative follows a blameless and upright machine named Cro…
Professor Scott Galloway stated that 95% of enterprise AI spending generates no return a CFO can identify, citing Uber burning its entire 2026 AI budget before April and Stripe spending $100,000 daily on AI tokens. The w…
A security researcher discovered that Meta's smart glasses companion app, Stella, contains a fully functional on-device facial recognition pipeline, including three face models, a local database, and a biometric vector i…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a new national AI strategy called "AI for All," which prioritizes strengthening data protections, increasing AI adoption, and investing in Canadian-owned AI infrastructure ov…
Prime Minister Mark Carney launched Canada's national artificial intelligence strategy, AI for All, on June 4, 2026 in Toronto, targeting $200 billion in economic growth and 250,000 new AI-related jobs over five years. T…
Security firm DTEX warned that agentic AI tools embedded in enterprise systems can enable insiders to exfiltrate data in as little as 10 to 30 minutes, according to research reported by CyberScoop. DTEX researchers demon…
U.S. employers announced 97,006 job cuts in May 2026, the highest May total since 2020, with 40% of those cuts attributed to artificial intelligence, according to a June 4 report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray &…