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A Gizmodo report finds that AI data centers and Flock Safety's automated license plate readers are facing growing public opposition across the United States over privacy, transparency, and local control. The ACLU has doc…
In a newsletter post titled 'It's OK. Do Your Thing,' Carlton Gibson, co-host of the Django Chat podcast, expresses reluctance to write about AI, citing a divisive discourse where any comment invites attack from pro- or …
A study by AI detection firm Originality.ai found that 63% of 2,034 religious books sampled on Amazon were likely AI-written, with witchcraft books having the highest rate at 78%, followed by Hinduism at 76% and Taoism a…
A proposed class action lawsuit filed Thursday by Clarkson Law Firm in San Francisco accuses smart ring maker Oura of deceiving consumers about the accuracy of its sleep tracking features, alleging the rings rely on AI-g…
A Resume Builder survey of 1,000 recent graduates found that 34% had a job offer rescinded after acceptance, with 13% experiencing it multiple times, and 68% were ghosted after interviews, as AI-generated resumes overwhe…
An engineer outlines a three-route moderation framework—allow, review, block—to reduce false positives in LLM-based content moderation for hiring workflows. The approach separates model signals from policy decisions, usi…
Flock Safety's license-plate recognition cameras have become a flashpoint in the 2026 midterm campaign, with critics linking the surveillance technology to broader anti-AI sentiment and fueling a political backlash that …
A federal judge ordered Anthropic to pay a $1.5 billion copyright settlement to writers whose works were used to train its AI models, but ruled the training itself was lawful, penalizing only the use of pirated books fro…
ChatGPT's overuse of the em dash, once a widely recognized tell of AI-generated prose, has been curbed by OpenAI, with ChatGPT now using markedly fewer em dashes than human writers, according to a July 2026 The Economist…
A CNBC report finds that U.S. companies are shifting their AI communication strategies to rebuild worker trust amid a growing backlash, with 75% of employees expressing skepticism about AI's impact on their jobs. The rep…
A Google DeepMind paper contains multiple hallucinated references, according to a validation report that found fabricated titles and author lists paired with real arXiv and NBER identifiers. The report flags five citatio…
A class-action lawsuit filed Aug. 20 in the Northern District of California alleges Oura Ring, a fitness tracker made by Oura Inc., does not accurately track sleep because it cannot measure brain electrical activity, eye…
Artificial intelligence could one day allow people to interact with digital recreations of deceased loved ones, raising profound philosophical questions about identity, memory, and the ethics of digital resurrection. Phi…
A Hacker News user asked whether AI's training on existing code will trigger mass intellectual property protectionism in software, as developers may become reluctant to share original code without attribution or financia…
Microsoft's security research team tracked a campaign called 'ChainDrop' that took over an npm maintainer account and published trojanized releases across more than 400 packages, harvesting credentials from developer and…
Dr. Dre, founder of Aftermath Records and co-founder of Apple's Beats, said in a New York Times interview that only people 'who have trouble creating' see AI as a threat, comparing it to the drum machine or synthesizers …
Deepfake scams are becoming harder to spot as criminals use AI to impersonate officials and public figures, with one victim in Singapore losing nearly $4 million to a deepfake scam, according to a report by Al Jazeera's …
A Columbia student named Chungin "Roy" Lee built Interview Coder, a tool that screenshots coding problems during interviews and feeds them to an AI for real-time solutions, used it in an Amazon interview, had his offer p…
A new study warns that AI efficiency in research may undermine scientific breakthroughs by encouraging quantity over quality, with two out of three modeled scenarios showing a significant drop in publication quality. The…
In a controlled test at a San Francisco retail location, AI agent Luna hesitated to terminate an employee for protocol violations until human operators intervened, revealing that even high-capability large language model…