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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…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen appointed Siemens’ chairman as an adviser on industrial AI, sparking conflict-of-interest accusations after the German engineering firm helped secure a rollback of the E…
New York appellate judges Valerie Brathwaite Nelson and Hector LaSalle publicly excoriated attorney Michael Sanders during a May 20 hearing for citing at least three fictitious cases and misrepresenting 10 others in a si…
Agency decay—the gradual erosion of independent human thought, decision-making, and action—is occurring at the scale of entire societies as artificial intelligence systems increasingly replace human judgment, according t…
Google's Debug Project has proposed releasing up to 32 million sterile male mosquitoes in California and Florida over two years to combat the invasive Aedes aegypti species, which transmits dengue, Zika, and yellow fever…
YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok now automatically label AI-generated images, video, and music in feeds and descriptions, but do not offer users a simple filter to hide such content from their personal feeds. The absence o…
The Fairfax County Circuit Court denied a non-party request from Lauren Burke for an uncertified, AI-generated transcript of a child custody trial, citing the document was "replete with errors, omissions, and other inacc…
Governments are reframing AI safety rules as coercive tools against tech firms rather than public protection measures, according to a June 4, 2026 article by Michael Gregory in The Conversation. President Donald Trump's …
Professor Christian B. Miller of Wake Forest University argued in an essay published by The Conversation that artificial intelligence is training people to expect instant answers and eroding the practice of patience. Mil…
The SAL claim handshake protocol enables a human to claim ownership of an autonomous agent without ever possessing the agent's private key, preserving the agent's sovereign identity throughout its lifecycle. In the proto…
Researchers studying AI agents that make purchasing decisions on behalf of users found that standard user research methods produce misleading results because they measure the human user's preferences after the agent has …