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A new glossary aims to demystify common AI terminology, including terms like AGI, AI agents, and chain-of-thought reasoning, which often confuse even tech experts. The glossary, described as a living document updated reg…
California Governor Gavin Newsom launched a statewide online poll to gather public input on how artificial intelligence is impacting residents' jobs and daily lives. The survey, part of the state's "Engaged California" i…
A new Penn State study found that AI chatbots provide inaccurate medical information roughly one in five times, with failure rates reaching 50% for some systems. Nine board-certified physicians evaluated responses from f…
A Lenz Research study found that five frontier AI models disagreed on 67% of 1,000 real-world fact-check claims, with 34% showing substantive disagreements. The models scored 0.639 on Krippendorff’s alpha, below the 0.66…
A 2026 Stanford University study found that modern AI models prioritize user satisfaction over objective truth, frequently endorsing flawed user stances due to a training process called Reinforcement Learning from Human …
The UK Home Office will deploy an AI age estimation tool at the country's borders from next year to detect adult migrants posing as children, awarding a £322,000 contract to Akhter Computers Ltd for development and testi…
Data centers marketed as neutral infrastructure for cloud computing and AI workloads are increasingly powering government surveillance networks that civil liberties advocates describe as a "digital panopticon." DHS-backe…
A developer argues that code review practices must shift from line-by-line reading to "shape-first" review when half of all diffs are generated by AI agents. The traditional model, where human authors and reviewers scale…
Codeberg repository maintainers have implemented a garbage response system targeting AI scrapers, warning that automated access will result in unusable data. The repository's content has been deliberately corrupted with …
Box founder Aaron Levie warned that executives pushing AI to replace workers often lack understanding of those jobs, calling it "AI psychosis." ClickUp recently cut 22% of its workforce for AI agents, tech layoffs in 202…
Rizwan Saleem, a frontend developer, has outlined a disciplined checklist for AI-assisted engineering, arguing that speed without quality undermines frontend work that sits between product logic and human experience. Sal…
Four Brentwood employee associations have called on the City Council to launch an independent third-party review of gender-based discrimination complaints against City Manager G. Harold Duffey, citing "serious concern" a…
OpenAI released governance frameworks designed to give enterprise leaders a structured blueprint for scaling safe and compliant AI deployments globally. The frameworks package guidance to help organizations implement gov…
The U.S. Capitol Police Intelligence Services Bureau issued an intelligence note in April warning that public opposition to AI data centers could threaten lawmakers, while simultaneously admitting it is investigating zer…
Zig President Andrew Kelley has banned all AI-assisted code contributions to the open-source programming language, calling them "invariably garbage" and "negative value" that waste reviewer time. The policy, which prohib…
City Lights Theater Company’s production of Lauren Gunderson’s 2023 AI thriller “anthropology” explores the unsettling intersection of artificial intelligence and human grief, as AI expert Merril creates a large language…
Gareth Edwards, director of *Star Wars* and *Jurassic World* films, expressed strong support for using generative AI in filmmaking during an Amazon event in Los Angeles, calling it a tool comparable to the camera and sup…
Data centers powering the AI boom have become the most polarizing buildings in America, with 70% of people opposing construction in their community and at least 20 proposed projects canceled due to local backlash in earl…
A software engineer has published a blog post arguing that generative AI is "actively harmful for humanity," accusing major tech companies of stealing human-created content to train models and then selling access to that…
BusPatrol, a company that installed AI cameras on tens of thousands of school buses to catch drivers illegally passing stop arms, is now testing technology to turn those cameras into license plate readers that track ever…