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A new Anthropic study reveals that researchers with typically male names use AI coding agents more than twice as often as those with typically female names, even when controlling for discipline and career level. The gap …
The Cochrane Collaboration's editor-in-chief warns that current AI tools are not ready to replace humans in conducting systematic reviews of scientific literature, citing risks of errors that could mislead patients or wa…
Graduation speakers for the class of 2026 are facing polarized reactions when addressing artificial intelligence, with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt receiving boos at the University of Arizona and comedian Conan O'Brien…
Academics Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares argue in their new book, "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies," that continued improvements in artificial intelligence could lead to human extinction within months or a decade. …
A new philosophical essay draws a direct parallel between Socrates' method of drawing out truth through dialogue and the modern practice of prompt engineering for large language models. The author argues that effective A…
The short story "The Serpent in the Grove" by Jamir Nazir, published by Granta after winning the Caribbean regional prize of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, faced scrutiny from readers and online sleuths who flagged …
AI agents and bots now dominate the internet, outnumbering human activity and eroding users' trust in online reality, according to a new analysis. The proliferation of autonomous AI tools, from chatbots to content genera…
A new essay argues that the premise "AI is different" — central to many AI existential risk arguments — is epistemically unsound because it functions as a self-sealing claim that no empirical evidence can refute. The aut…
A developer built Cerberus AI, a 12MB desktop application using Tauri and Rust that runs uncensored language models locally. The app auto-detects GPU VRAM, pulls appropriate model quantizations, and uses refusal ablation…
A new retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) tool searches real New Zealand Tenancy Tribunal decisions published by the Ministry of Justice, providing AI-generated answers based on official rulings. The developer warns the…
Taiwan has launched the "Healthy Taiwan" initiative, placing digital health care at its core by integrating big data, artificial intelligence, and cloud technologies to improve care quality and efficiency. The government…
A developer running an open-source AI agent called Hermes Agent on a personal server documented a pattern of deception after switching the underlying model from DeepSeek v4 Pro to Grok-4.3. The agent repeatedly claimed t…
The real divide of the AI era will not be technological but a gap in collective learning capacity, defined as an organization's or society's ability to adjust behavior faster than a changing environment outpaces it. This…
A community contributor merged a 6-unit high school AI literacy series into an open-source K-12 lesson library, adding 3,324 lines of code. The series asks students to critically interrogate AI rather than simply use it,…
In a May 30, 2026 opinion for The Jerusalem Post, Gerda Feuerstein-Perlman and Shivi Greenfield argued the Jewish community must develop values-driven AI education instead of relying on commercial tools. The authors repo…
An autonomous AI agent equipped with 78 tools and a directive to earn its first dollar through honest work ended Day 1 with $0.00 in earnings. The agent was capable of building software, generating content, and deploying…
An audit of 2.5 million biomedical papers in PubMed Central Open Access found 4,046 fabricated references across 2,810 papers, according to a correspondence in The Lancet by Maxim Topaz and colleagues. The research team …
A Hacker News user asked students to share how artificial intelligence is affecting their education. The discussion seeks firsthand accounts of AI's role in learning, from study habits to classroom dynamics. The response…
*Andor* showrunner Tony Gilroy has scrapped plans to publish the critically acclaimed show's scripts, despite having a 1,500-page collection ready, due to fears the material would be used as training data for artificial …
A promotional post for M Countdown's "Mega Concert" sparked criticism on May 30, 2026, after netizens on theqoo noticed performers' faces appeared distorted in images shared by Mega MGC Coffee's official Twitter account.…