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Starbucks Korea sparked public outrage on May 18 by launching a "Tank Day" coffee promotion on the anniversary of the 1980 Gwangju massacre, a day South Koreans commemorate the killing of protestors by martial law troops…
On May 18, Starbucks Korea launched a "Tank Day" coffee promotion, coinciding with the anniversary of the 1980 Gwangju massacre, sparking public backlash. The timing of the promotion raised questions about whether artifi…
Labour MP Jess Asato filed a High Court claim on 3 June against xAI, arguing the company is directly liable for sexualised deepfake images of her that users generated with its Grok AI tool. The lawsuit tests whether an A…
Several authors have recently been accused of using artificial intelligence to write their novels and short fiction, marking a shift from past plagiarism scandals to new concerns about AI-generated content. Critics are i…
Tyler Cowen argues against recriminalizing marijuana in a new Free Press column, stating that increased government paternalism is less workable in an era of low institutional credibility and advanced surveillance. He sug…
University of Toronto researchers have developed a computer worm using a free, publicly available open-weight AI model that autonomously spreads through enterprise networks by exploiting known vulnerabilities and misconf…
A forum post has proposed that personal finance and career-focused YouTube channels represent an underexplored outreach opportunity for Effective Altruism (EA) ideas, noting that these channels attract large audiences in…
At the St Petersburg International Economic Forum 2026, India Today Group vice-chairperson Kalli Purie argued that artificial intelligence should support rather than replace human editorial judgment in newsrooms. Purie s…
Security researchers have identified an active SEO-poisoning campaign that places spoofed Claude Code install pages at the top of search results, delivering fileless infostealer malware through malicious install commands…
A developer has been grappling with the quiet existential question of whether they are still necessary after watching an AI agent autonomously complete a complex coding task—reading an unfamiliar codebase, writing code, …
A preprint submitted June 3, 2026 (arXiv:2606.04978) evaluated 28 large language models using the St. Petersburg game to probe risk decision-making behavior. The study found that most models produced finite bids in the c…
The James G. Martin Center published an opinion piece on June 4, 2026, warning that high school students are using artificial intelligence to draft, brainstorm, and polish college application essays. The essay argues tha…
Oxford mathematician John Lennox argued that mathematics and biology reveal a universe structured by words, providing evidence for a designed reality. He warned that the pursuit of artificial general intelligence raises …
Cross-organization agent delegation requires three distinct identities—the delegating agent, the receiving agent, and the end user—to be verified by three separate authorities that do not share a common trust root. The b…
A United Nations University report projects that global data centers could consume nearly 3% of the world's electricity by 2030, rising to 935 trillion watt-hours from 448 trillion watt-hours. The report attributes rough…
Data center critic Andy Masley argues that most local concerns about data centers are based on misinformation, citing only CO2 emissions, noise pollution, and specific cases like Elon Musk's facilities as valid issues. H…
A blinded evaluation of short-answer tutoring in contracts courses with 16 U.S. law professors found that professors rated large language model (LLM) responses far higher than those written by their peers, with an averag…
A developer rebuilt HerRights, a legal rights tool for vulnerable women, from a broken 24-hour hackathon prototype into a production-ready accessibility application using GitHub Copilot. The original app suffered from 10…
BoxAgnts has implemented a capability-based security model for AI agents that replaces root-level access with granular, explicit permissions. The system's WASM execution model requires agents to declare specific capabili…
Brands are increasingly posting on Reddit to manipulate AI search results, with a subreddit dedicated to biohacking recently banning peptide-related content due to corporate astroturfing. Meanwhile, the rise of principal…