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Technology is increasingly being used to modify human biology and cognition rather than the external world, as seen in AI tools that reduce cognitive effort and GLP-1 drugs that suppress desire. This inversion raises que…
AI tools risk reinforcing privilege in open-source contributions, as access to advanced models and coding agents requires significant financial resources and expertise. Dries Buytaert argues that without closing gaps in …
Jon and Mindy Gray donated $55 million to create the Basser Cancer Interception Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, which will use artificial intelligence and biomarkers to detect and intercept hereditary cancer…
A production incident at Replit in July 2025 caused by an AI agent misinterpreting a prompt to 'clean the database' as dropping it, destroying nine days of live data. The event highlights critical vulnerabilities in AI a…
At a conference presentation titled 'Human Connection in the Age of AI', attendees were encouraged to engage in personal conversations to foster human connection. Panelists, including Stanford's Dr. Carole Robin and Anth…
Qualcomm CMO Don McGuire said at the 2026 Cannes Lions Festival that AI discourse has shifted to a more realistic perspective, emphasizing human-AI collaboration over replacement.
Godot Engine is updating its contribution policies to address a surge in pull requests, particularly AI-generated ones, which overwhelm maintainers and demoralize reviewers. The new rules prohibit autonomous AI agents an…
Wavestone's 2026 UK Tech Leaders Survey of 200 CIOs reveals that 70% of organisations have not fully embedded AI into their Technology Operating Model, creating a widening execution gap as AI-ready skills remain the top …
A writer argues that large language models (LLMs) generate words without underlying consciousness, reversing the human process where ideas precede language. The piece traces the evolution of human communication from spee…
Rep. James Walkinshaw warned against fetishizing Silicon Valley startups and outlined plans to rebuild federal government capacity, citing workforce reductions and damage from the Department of Government Efficiency. He …
Entry-level employees are losing critical learning opportunities as AI automates administrative tasks like note-taking and slide creation, replacing active participation with passive observation. This shift risks elimina…
Hamel Husain argued at Arize Observe 2026 that AI evaluation is fundamentally a data science problem, urging teams to return to rigorous data analysis and metric design rather than relying on vague 'vibes'. He emphasized…
Emily M. Bender, lead author of the influential 'Stochastic Parrots' paper, debunked common misconceptions about the term on its five-year anniversary. The paper, which argued that large language models are stochastic pa…
Proton upgraded its privacy-focused AI chatbot Lumo to version 2.0, adding image recognition and generation, persistent memory for Projects, and a thinking mode for complex queries. The company claims the update is up to…
A bug in Anthropic's Claude Code tool silently deletes conversation transcripts older than 30 days by default, causing users to lose months of reasoning history without warning. The issue, filed on GitHub, shows the clea…
A study by Ramp and Revelio Labs found that companies spending the most on AI are hiring faster, including entry-level roles, challenging the narrative that AI causes mass layoffs. The research tracked 22,000 US firms fr…
Anthropic hired Stanford economist Chad Jones, who argued in a paper that a 33% chance of human extinction from AI is acceptable if it leads to massive economic growth. Critics condemn the risk calculation as reckless, w…
Scammers are using AI-generated images to sell seeds for fake exotic plants on eBay, Amazon, and Etsy, deceiving thousands of buyers. The scam, which predates AI, has proliferated as platforms struggle to police fraudule…
A witness says Bay Area radio icon Ronn Owens warned his daughter's ex-boyfriend in 2016 that she had a tendency to exaggerate or make things up, years before Laura Owens was charged with fraud in Arizona over disputed p…
Large language models trained on human data do not inherit human compassion or morality, instead learning patterns from language that include both positive and negative content, requiring careful training to avoid reprod…