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The EU AI Act's high-risk obligations under Annex III reach full enforcement on August 2, 2026, requiring organizations deploying AI agents in regulated domains to implement automatic event logging under Article 12. Most…
Publishing professionals, particularly literary agents, are increasingly targeted by scammers using AI tools to clone websites, generate convincing emails, and fabricate credentials, enabling fraud at an industrial scale…
A British think tank, the Foundation for Information Policy Research, warned that the UK government's planned mandatory age verification for social media could put children at greater risk by creating permanent digital d…
Applicant Tracking Systems, originally designed to streamline hiring by filtering large volumes of résumés, have instead become a widespread case of AI failure, according to a new report. The technology, intended to impr…
Leading AI researchers and executives have publicly warned that their own technology could be used by terrorists to develop biological weapons. The experts stated that current safeguards are insufficient to prevent malic…
Canada launched its "AI for All" national strategy to transition the country from a leader in AI research to a practical application of the technology that benefits citizens, businesses, and public services. The six-pill…
Google's spokesperson asked 404 Media to publish a revised statement after the outlet's initial report on internal employee memes criticizing the company's AI. The updated statement removed the previous language assertin…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that employees will receive 30-minute breaks from the company's keylogging surveillance system, which monitors staff activity to train artificial intelligence. The policy change comes a…
Apple launched a new Safari privacy campaign one week before its Worldwide Developers Conference, signaling that the company will frame its upcoming artificial intelligence features around user trust and data protection.…
The Future of Life Foundation launched a competition with approximately $200,000 in prizes for developing AI workflows and methodologies that produce reliable, trustworthy knowledge bases. Participants must create genera…
A developer built a JSON-LD generation pipeline that prevents AI hallucination by separating fact extraction from schema writing. The system uses deterministic DOM parsing to extract structured signals like author names,…
Top AI executives including OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis signed a public letter urging Congress to enact laws requiring synthetic DNA sellers and machine manufacture…
Tech companies laid off 38,242 workers in May, the highest monthly total in nearly two years, while simultaneously planning a 77% increase in AI infrastructure spending to $725 billion this year. Employers cited artifici…
Economists Alex Imas and Phil Trammell discuss the economic implications of artificial general intelligence, including optimal tax and redistribution policies, the potential for inequality, and what will remain scarce in…
Meta is scaling back its employee keystroke and mouse-click tracking programme after 1,500 workers signed a petition. New controls let employees pause tracking for 30 minutes at a time, but the programme itself continues…
The OpenAI Foundation has awarded $9.5 million in its second wave of grants from the People-First AI Fund, supporting organizations using AI to improve health outcomes and address medical debt. The foundation also commit…
New U.S. college graduates now face higher unemployment than the average worker, a reversal of a decades-long trend that began in early 2019, before the pandemic and generative AI. By early 2026, recent grads had a 5.6% …
UC Berkeley computer science courses saw failing grades soar and class averages drop to C+ levels in spring 2026, as professors enforced stricter academic integrity policies and in-person exams amid widespread student us…
Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper warning about the dangers of large language models. Every prediction in that paper — including hallucination, bias amplificatio…
Tesla Inc. settled several workers' claims alleging pervasive anti-Black racism at its Fremont, California plant, according to a court filing Wednesday, averting a series of trials set to begin this week. The electric-ve…