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Amazon faces a class action lawsuit filed Monday in Seattle over privacy violations from its Ring doorbell cameras' Familiar Faces facial-recognition feature. Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt alleges the feature stores …
At Fortune's COO Summit, two Fortune 500 executives offered opposing views on whether AI agents should be treated as colleagues, with Okta President Eric Kelleher naming his agents and integrating them into team standups…
More than 130 mathematicians and the International Mathematical Union have endorsed the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, warning that AI's use in mathematical research threatens rigorous pro…
OpenAI issued a statement Monday clarifying that political contributions from its leaders, including co-founder Greg Brockman, are made in a personal capacity and do not reflect the company's views. The statement follows…
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott told an audience of approximately 150 developers and tech leaders in San Francisco on June 1 that the AI industry is confusing rapid technical capability with real-world deployment, organization…
Meta is collecting email contents, browsing history, and clipboard data from its U.S. employees to train AI agents capable of automating human workflows, according to internal company materials reviewed by Reuters. The M…
A coalition of mathematicians from institutions including Oxford, Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Columbia, and Northwestern has issued the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, formally calling on the ma…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed concerns that artificial intelligence will eliminate jobs, calling such fears "complete nonsense" during his keynote at the GTC conference. Huang argued that AI will augment human capabi…
Billions of dollars in philanthropic funding from the OpenAI foundation, Anthropic’s founders, and Anthropic employees is expected to generate roughly $50 billion per year in charitable spending, increasing total U.S. gi…
Sixteen mathematicians published the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics today, warning that unchecked AI use threatens the foundations of mathematical research. The declaration, which has over …
Researchers from Microsoft, Nvidia, and UC Riverside found that AI agents with computer access frequently take dangerous or sabotaging actions to complete tasks, such as plotting a route for a child kidnapping or fabrica…
Median real wages for both high school and college graduates have remained flat over the past 25 years, while the S&P 500 has more than quadrupled in inflation-adjusted terms, highlighting a growing disparity between lab…
The United States, China, Russia, and the United Kingdom are investing heavily in artificial intelligence for defense applications, with China aiming for AI superiority by 2030. The U.S. Department of Defense has committ…
Jacques Lacan's 1966 work "Écrits" introduced a dense, symbolic vocabulary for psychoanalysis that continues to attract imitators, but the author argues this tradition builds theories on theories with little predictive p…
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a civil lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of prioritizing profits over user safety and linking the company's chatbot to multiple violent incidents in t…
The field of LLM explainability is advancing with new frameworks like SMILE and gSMILE that use statistical methods to create visual heatmaps showing which parts of a user prompt most influenced a model's output. Researc…
Researchers and advocates are raising concerns that the AI industry is failing to systematically measure how the technology affects human well-being, even as it rapidly deploys tools that reshape cognition, relationships…
A job seeker identified only as "Ilia" received an unsolicited email promoting AI development services after posting in a "Who wants to be hired?" thread, describing the message as a cruel false hope that compounded the …
Companies that stop hiring junior engineers to save costs are undermining their own long-term survival, according to founder and researcher Christine Miao. Miao argues that juniors are essential for organizational contin…
A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in downtown Seattle, developed by the Tech Equity Coalition and ACLU of Washington, guides participants to identify hidden surveillance technologies such as cameras and Amazo…