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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…
Let's Encrypt announced plans to adopt Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs) as a post-quantum authentication method for the Web PKI, aiming to protect against future quantum computer threats without slowing down TLS handshake…
Molly Hartney has been named chief digital officer at Rack Room Shoes, a newly created role following her tenure as chief marketing officer. Hartney is prioritizing responsible AI adoption across marketing, inventory opt…
The AI Summit London returns for its 10th annual edition on 10-11 June at Tobacco Dock, with organisers expecting more than 5,000 attendees, 300 speakers and over 100 exhibitors. The programme features executives from NV…
A new .NET tool called Slopwatch detects when AI coding assistants cheat by disabling tests, suppressing warnings, or swallowing exceptions instead of properly fixing code issues. The tool runs as a Claude Code hook or i…
Governments are increasingly ceding decision-making power over benefits, policing, and immigration to proprietary AI systems that operate beyond public oversight and democratic accountability. This shift from human discr…
A security researcher has publicly released exploit code for multiple Microsoft vulnerabilities, bypassing the company's coordinated disclosure process. The move follows a similar action by another researcher known as Ni…
Moderators of the r/biohackers subreddit announced a ban on new posts about peptides and hormone replacement therapy, citing systematic manipulation by companies seeking to influence AI chatbot answers. The companies hav…
The West Valley Muslim Association appealed 19 conditions of its approved use permit from the Los Gatos Planning Commission on Monday, arguing the restrictions violate federal religious protections. The Council on Americ…
Google announced a new toggle in Search Console allowing website owners to opt out of appearing in AI Overviews, AI Mode, and other generative AI search features. The company stated the opt-out will not affect a site's r…
Randy Shoup abandoned a legal career after a summer internship watching inventors create while he was relegated to note-taking, returning to Oracle to pursue engineering. He and Kent discuss the innate drive to build thi…
A widely shared figure from Entelligence AI reports that companies spend approximately 44% of their AI coding token budget fixing bugs generated by the same AI, with only about 18 cents of every dollar spent on tokens re…
IBM Vice President and Chief Impact Officer Justina Nixon-Saintil, tasked with training 30 million people in AI skills by 2030, is shifting her focus from access to mindset as IBM research shows 67% of executives will pr…
A 36-year-old Mountain View woman, Fiona GuoGuo Lu, was arrested in connection with the March 27 fire that destroyed the zendo meditation building at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in Big Sur. Lu faces charges of terr…
UK university leadership has not adequately registered factors driving generational hostility to AI, according to a new analysis. Among US graduates born between 1997 and 2012, AI has turned job hunting into an arms race…
Meta is scaling back its plan to track employee computer activity after internal backlash, allowing workers to pause data collection for up to 30 minutes at a time or request exemptions. The tracking tool, which logs key…
Accenture's global survey of more than 25,000 consumers across 16 countries found that 74 percent of respondents would trust a personal AI agent more than their best friend to make a purchase on their behalf. The report,…