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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…
A new form of psychological dependency on artificial intelligence is emerging, as researchers warn that "emotional surrender" to AI may follow the previously identified pattern of cognitive surrender. Frictionless emotio…
A communications practitioner has proposed creating a Climate Outreach-style organization for AI safety, modeled after the British charity that segments the public by core values and provides free messaging toolkits. The…
Michigan Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow unveiled a detailed artificial intelligence policy agenda last week, proposing an AI Workforce Reinvestment Fund and a "token tax" on companies using AI to fund retraining progr…
An AI company considering whether to include a specific quality—such as prosocial drives, whistleblowing against power concentration, or strict honesty—in a model spec must weigh criteria across four categories: predicta…
Hasbro launched Sixth Wall, a new AI studio for licensed character experiences, and introduced a Behavioral Licensing model powered by a proprietary system called CharacterOS. The company also announced a strategic partn…
Labour MP Jess Asato filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI in the UK High Court on June 3, alleging its Grok chatbot generated a non-consensual deepfake bikini image of her. The suit, citing the Data Protection Act and…
Apple's new Gemini-powered Siri will route user queries to Google Cloud for processing on Nvidia Blackwell B200 GPUs, not Apple's own servers or silicon, when cloud compute is needed. The privacy guarantee relies on Nvid…