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AI-generated songs with near-identical names, lyrics, and melodies have flooded streaming platforms, amassing millions of streams on Spotify and TikTok and hitting No. 1 on iTunes in Germany and Austria. The tracks appea…
Honeybadger has implemented a strict AI use policy for its blog, requiring all writing to be original work from the author. The policy permits limited use of AI tools for research, spelling and grammar checks, and code g…
Steve Rosenbaum, author of the new book *The Future of Truth*, which examines how artificial intelligence distorts reality, admitted to using AI tools during the writing process after The New York Times reported the book…
Amazon removed an internal leaderboard tracking employee usage of its Kiro AI tool after workers created AI agents to perform unnecessary tasks and inflate their scores, a practice known as tokenmaxxing that generated ex…
Cognition CEO Scott Wu said his company's AI coding agent Devin is not designed to replace human programmers, despite the startup's $1 billion funding round at a $26 billion valuation. Wu, a former child competitive prog…
A compilation of 11 charts reveals that the AI industry is built on exaggerated capabilities, wasted resources, and circular financial deals, with ten companies shouldering the entire economy. The data shows AI reliabili…
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon advised Generation Z graduates to focus on developing critical thinking, emotional intelligence, and communication skills rather than fearing AI job displacement, calling the U.S. economy r…
23andMe is facing a class-action lawsuit over a data breach that exposed sensitive genetic and personal information of millions of users. The lawsuit, filed in California, alleges the company failed to adequately protect…
Amazon shut down an internal employee-created leaderboard called "KiroRank" that tracked AI token usage, after the tool encouraged staff to use AI for tasks that did not solve actual problems. Dave Treadwell, an Amazon s…
404 Media staff reflected on how a single reporting thread can evolve over time, citing a recent story about a Pennsylvania high school grappling with AI-generated child sexual abuse material. The piece highlighted how t…
A worker is ignoring AI-generated documents from colleagues, receiving at least five such requests per week, because the content is verbose, generic, and clearly unread even by its senders. The flood of AI-produced text …
NVIDIA released the MCG toolkit, a containerized pipeline that automates AI model documentation generation in under a minute by reading source data directly. The toolkit addresses growing regulatory requirements under Ca…
AllianceBernstein published a note advising investors that AI ethics issues, including bias, data integrity, and privacy, create material risks for consumers, companies, and shareholders. The firm warned that AI regulati…
The BBC opened Thursday's edition of Question Time with AI-generated images of Winston Churchill, Frida Kahlo, Mahatma Gandhi and Emmeline Pankhurst as a staged introduction to a programme about artificial intelligence. …
The Joint Commission and the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) published a guidance document titled "The Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare (RUAIH)" that provides non-binding considerations for health systems adopting, eva…
Filmmaker Jorge Gutierrez withdrew from Amazon’s generative-AI animation program days after announcing his involvement, stating he will not develop the previously planned Punky Duck series. Gutierrez’s initial defense of…
AMD CEO Lisa Su told MIT's 2026 graduating class that the world needs people with purpose, judgment, and courage—not just those who know how to use AI tools. Su emphasized that technology itself will not decide the futur…
A Stanford University research project analyzing 4 million job applications across 156 US employers found that AI-driven hiring tools systematically reject Black and Asian candidates at higher rates than expected. The st…
CNN filed a federal lawsuit against Perplexity this week, accusing the AI answer engine of unlawfully copying thousands of its stories, videos, and images to power search responses. The complaint alleges Perplexity distr…
Filmmaker Jorge Gutierrez withdrew from Amazon MGM Studios' AI-generated series program Friday after backlash over his involvement with the GenAI Creators' Fund. Gutierrez announced he would not produce the planned "Punk…