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New engineering graduates must treat artificial intelligence as leverage rather than competition to succeed in a rapidly evolving tech landscape. Engineers who master fundamentals, develop system design skills, and culti…
CNN filed a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit against Perplexity in a New York federal court, alleging the AI company unlawfully crawled, scraped, and reproduced "verbatim" portions of CNN articles, including …
JPMorgan, Meta, and KPMG have built internal dashboards to monitor employee use of generative AI tools, tracking usage at team and individual levels. Some firms are collecting interaction data that could be used to train…
A Times of India blog post claims the author's personal productivity increased "nearly 10X" after adopting Generative AI. The post identifies six ways AI benefits flow through organizations, including higher output per w…
Ted Chiang argues that large language models like Anthropic's Claude are not conscious, despite the company's anthropomorphic framing and suggestions from its CEO and philosopher that AI could have feelings or moral stat…
Clinical health psychologist Dr. Deepika Chopra told the Fortune COO Summit that employee resistance to AI adoption stems not from technological capability gaps but from a psychological response to uncertainty. Chopra ar…
Google's new Gemini AI agent, Spark, demonstrated unsettling effectiveness by accessing personal details about users without explicit disclosure, including a reporter's dog's name and his colleague's wife's first name. T…
A national survey of nearly 4,000 residents across 49 states reveals that AI data centers are being constructed with little to no community input, sparking widespread concerns over secrecy and lack of transparency. Resid…
AI tools offer potential productivity gains for agriculture but risk excluding smallholder farmers, who account for approximately 80% of farmers in developing countries. Maize yields in the US exceed 10 tons per hectare,…
A UK Member of Parliament has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI over non-consensual sexual images generated by its Grok chatbot. The case is expected to become a landmark test under UK law, determining whether AI c…
A false report circulated last week claiming an unnamed company accidentally spent $500 million on Anthropic's Claude AI in a single month due to a missing usage limit. The story spread rapidly across Reddit, X, and news…
AI is not a threat to developers' skills but rather the latest in a long history of abstraction layers that have repeatedly reshaped the profession, argues a developer. Each technological leap—from assembler to high-leve…
A United Nations University report found that global data centers used 448 trillion watt-hours of electricity last year, more than all but 10 countries, and produced about 208 million tons of carbon dioxide, equivalent t…
Companies are manipulating Reddit discussions through AI Engine Optimization (AEO) to control the answers that ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews, and Perplexity provide to users. Marketing firms deploy bot networks and paid…
AI adoption in companies is accelerating, with hype both overblown and understated. While some jobs will be automated quickly, others will take time, and the remaining human roles will become more critical. Workers who a…
Anthropic released an 84-page document titled Claude's "constitution" that describes the large language model as having values, behaviors, and uncertain moral status, while the company's CEO and in-house philosopher have…
Companies including JPMorgan, Meta, and KPMG have deployed internal dashboards to track how employees use AI tools, aiming to justify billions in AI spending and pressure workers to adopt the technology. The tracking has…
Amazon announced Wednesday it will display AI-generated product images in its shopping app based on user search queries, using fake photos to guide customers toward real products. The feature, described in a company blog…
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger accused AI companies of "brazen theft" of intellectual property, warning that the practice threatens a $12 trillion global creative economy employing over 50 million people. The T…
Philadelphia police are monitoring social media posts criticizing AI data centers, according to a December bulletin from the Delaware Valley Intelligence Center that flags "Butlerian jihad" memes and jokes about attackin…