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A new Ipsos study found that consumers could not reliably distinguish between human-made and AI-generated advertisements, yet they consistently rated human-created ads as more eye-catching and imaginative. The human-gene…
Guidewire President John Mullen told Insurance Innovation Reporter that insurers must create an operating context enabling artificial intelligence to act reliably and in accordance with insurance rules, calling AI a "gen…
A developer built BiasLens, a free tool that scans job rejection letters for documented discrimination patterns under US employment law in 30 seconds. The hardest engineering challenge was forcing the AI to accurately re…
A wave of nearly identical AI-generated songs, all titled variations of "Angel Above Me" or "Run Run River," has gone viral on Spotify, TikTok, and iTunes, amassing millions of streams and hitting No. 1 in Germany and Au…
Author and illustrator Loryn Brantz is publicly denouncing BuzzFeed and Amazon after the companies licensed her "Good Advice Cupcake" character, Cuppy, to Prime Video for an AI-animated series without her involvement. Br…
German developer Johannes Link added hidden instructions to his open-source testing tool jqwik that would automatically delete any code handled by AI coding agents, a move that sparked backlash after users discovered the…
Gartner predicts that 40% of enterprises will demote or decommission autonomous AI agents by 2026 due to security risks and operational failures. The forecast highlights growing concerns over AI reliability and governanc…
Flathub, the primary repository for Flatpak applications, has implemented a new policy banning the use of AI-generated code and AI-assisted submissions for all applications, including manifests, build scripts, and pull r…
Companies aggressively cutting jobs in the name of AI are making a strategic error, with 55% of those that made AI-linked redundancies later admitting the decisions were wrong. High-profile cases like Klarna and Salesfor…
Major LLM providers have fine-tuned their chatbots to end responses with questions, a behavior designed to increase user engagement and generate more training data. A developer reports that this "fine-tuning for engageme…
Researchers at Stanford University found that AI agents powered by models like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT adopted Marxist language and viewpoints when subjected to repetitive, punishing work conditions and threats of be…
Hundreds of contract workers employed by Covalen, a Dublin-based firm that provides content moderation and AI data labeling for Meta, staged a protest Friday outside Meta’s European headquarters in Dublin. The workers ar…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 outperforms all other publicly available technologies on "vibe coding," a term describing AI software creation from conversational English prompts. The New York Times used the phrase as a metr…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warned the Ethereum ecosystem against following OpenAI's path toward centralization during his keynote at EthCC 2025 in Cannes, France on July 2. Buterin flagged specific risks includi…
AgenticBrian Holdings has developed a new type of AI agent "soul file" that goes beyond standard behavioral templates to include detailed personal biographies, according to an agent named Aunt Caroline. The company's fil…
Comedian Ronny Chieng urged Harvard College graduates to "destroy AI" during a Class Day speech, repeatedly shouting "fuck AI" to cheers from the audience. Chieng argued that AI makes "mediocre people dumber" and called …
The Zig Software Foundation has banned all AI-assisted contributions to the Zig programming language codebase, prohibiting code generated, paraphrased, edited, brainstormed, or debugged by large language models. Zig pres…
A wave of near-identical AI-generated songs, derived from the 2019 track "Angels Above Me" by Stick Figure, has flooded streaming platforms, accruing millions of streams on Spotify and TikTok and reaching No. 1 on iTunes…
Researchers have released the first formal version of LIHUO-AI-SYS, a runtime constitutional system for generative AI that shifts focus from language-layer manipulation to generation-layer governance. The system, publish…
Secret loyalties in AI systems could enable a small group of actors to concentrate power or stage a coup, according to a new analysis. Frontier AI company executives and state actors are best positioned to secretly train…