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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,…
Vox published an essay by Yuliia Volkovska arguing that AI can replicate human-made art but cannot replace it, drawing an analogy to how the camera reshaped painting. A 2023 study cited by Vox found participants rated im…
A Build5Nines blog post published June 3, 2026 outlined design patterns for deploying agentic AI systems in enterprise production environments, contrasting simple assistants with autonomous agents that can modify infrast…
The AI Council Toolkit, an open-source playbook for AI governance, has been released, providing practical templates, governance patterns, and operating models for building and running an internal AI Council. The toolkit …
Leading artificial intelligence labs, including OpenAI and DeepMind, have significantly increased funding and personnel dedicated to studying machine consciousness, according to internal documents and interviews. The exp…
A developer has drawn a parallel between biological monocultures and cybersecurity, warning that the industry's increasing reliance on uniform tools, platforms, and AI-generated code creates systemic fragility. The analy…
A new generation of AI-powered toys, including the ChattyBear teddy bear, are being sold online and marketed as giving children as young as three an educational advantage. Researchers who evaluated six such toys over sev…
Despite studies showing that lay people often prefer AI-generated art over human-made art when the source is unknown, participants consistently report wanting human-made art when told which is which. The pleasure of art,…
QR codes, originally designed for machine readability, are increasingly used as verification tools across the internet, requiring humans to scan them to prove they are not bots. This practice, which surged during the COV…
Psychologists warn that over-reliance on artificial intelligence is eroding cognitive strength by making delegation feel like self-generated thought, according to a new analysis. The first capacity lost is tolerance for …
A nurse at Erlanger Baroness in Chattanooga admitted to stealing and abusing fentanyl for months, according to a nursing-board order reported by KFF/CBS News. The hospital's AI-powered drug diversion monitoring system, S…
Google committed to replenish more water than it uses at its data centers by 2030, publishing five water stewardship pledges on June 3, 2026. The company also promised to invest in local water infrastructure, identify al…
Sonar+D 2026 transformed Barcelona's Llotja de Mar into an exhibition and talk program highlighting robotic art, embodied AI personas, and ritualized interactions. Installations include Volvox Labs' robotic arm "Astral T…
Apple will unveil iOS 27 at its WWDC keynote on June 8, featuring a major overhaul of Siri into a full conversational chatbot integrated throughout the operating system. The update places Apple at the center of a growing…
Rob Hillard, CEO of Deloitte's Asia-Pacific branch, said recent graduates are entering the workforce with a "negative perception" of AI after being taught in college that using the technology constitutes cheating. Hillar…
Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing's 1930s proofs of mathematical incompleteness and undecidability directly explain why large language models hallucinate, according to recent scientific papers. The hallucinations are not a solv…
Tech CEOs are increasingly blaming artificial intelligence for mass layoffs, with Wix cutting 1,000 employees, Block laying off 4,000, and other firms following suit—a pattern MIT professor Paul Osterman calls "AI washin…
Researchers from the University of Toronto demonstrated a prototype AI-powered worm that can autonomously spread across networks, exploit vulnerabilities across multiple platforms including Linux, Windows, and IoT device…
Anthropic is hiring for a new "AI & Rule of Law" team to study how artificial intelligence impacts executive power, courts, elections, and democratic institutions. The AI company, which is moving toward a blockbuster IPO…