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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 …
Only 4% of Australians trust AI companies with their private information, according to a new survey by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. The finding places Australia among the most skeptical nations …
A Hacker News user warned that humans are increasingly outsourcing critical thinking to AI models, raising the risk that people may become as intellectually passive as the machines they rely on. The user, an economist, a…
Google employees are internally sharing memes mocking the company's AI tools, including one that altered a presentation slide to read "I/O announces entirely new ways to slop," according to internal messages seen by 404 …
An SEO expert caught Google's Gemini providing incorrect technical advice about Shopify canonical URLs and search penalties, while the same AI model nearly cost the user $3,000 by wrongly diagnosing a Jeep SRT rear diffe…
Apple faces a proposed $250 million settlement in a consumer class action over delayed AI upgrades to Siri, covering U.S. purchasers of the iPhone 15 and iPhone 16 between June 2024 and March 2025. Eligible claimants cou…
Attackers exploited Meta's AI-powered support chatbot to hijack Instagram accounts by tricking the bot into linking victim accounts to attacker-controlled emails and using chatbot-generated verification codes to reset pa…
An unidentified San Diego sheriff’s deputy violated department policy by failing to get out of his vehicle or activate his body-worn camera when responding to a report of a woman needing help, an independent investigatio…
AI scraping did not break the web; the dotcom-era platforms did by hollowing out the open web's social norms of reciprocity and trust over decades, according to an analysis from an open web perspective. The early web was…
At a Quito Lambda community event, a developer demonstrated how prompt injection attacks can compromise LLM applications that generate SQL over live databases, using an open-source model accessed via API with a Streamlit…