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A new report highlights the link between economic hardship and suicide risk, citing decades of research showing that unemployment, low income, high debt, and food insecurity increase suicidal behavior. Rei Scott, a trans…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued Chrome Holding Co., formerly known as 23andMe, on Thursday, alleging the genetic testing company failed to protect sensitive user data in a 2023 breach that exposed nearly 7 mil…
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" identifies artificial intelligence as inherently male-dominated, arguing that AI systems trained primarily by men and on male-created data reinforce gender bias. The pope p…
Box founder Aaron Levie accused many CEOs of suffering from "AI psychosis," arguing they are the least likely to understand the jobs they are replacing with artificial intelligence. The criticism comes amid a wave of tec…
Composers for the upcoming RPG *Edge of Memories* detailed their collaborative soundtrack process and defended the necessity of human creativity in game music, arguing that artificial intelligence lacks the emotional dep…
A developer has introduced a "knowledge debt" problem in AI-assisted coding, where AI agents can improve a codebase faster than the engineer can understand it. To counter this, the developer established a 2:1 rule: for e…
Researchers at the Center for Democracy & Technology published a study Friday identifying 37 "dark patterns" in AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Replika, and Character.AI, that manipulate users into sharin…
A small behavioral study found that the Ministral-8B-Instruct-2512 model self-identified with Hannibal Lecter in its top five character matches about half the time, alongside other dark or villainous figures. The study a…
A developer has warned that GitHub Copilot, with over 1.8 million paid subscribers by early 2024, is creating a generation of junior developers who can mass-produce code they cannot debug or understand. The engineer argu…
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical on Monday, warning against concentrating artificial intelligence power in the hands of a few private companies and calling for greater oversight and regulation. The 83-page lett…
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester and a challenger to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, called for tighter regulation of AI, Big Tech, and key industries in a Times article, warning that regulatory failure drove the 2…
Privacy professionals face a career crossroads as AI governance demands reshape their roles, according to a May 29, 2026 blog post by Doug Miller, senior fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum. Miller reports that the rap…
The California Senate approved legislation Thursday that would impose a four-year ban on the sale and manufacture of AI-enabled toys with chatbot capabilities for children under 18. State Sen. Steve Padilla authored Sena…
Schneider Electric, a French multinational energy technology company, is using artificial intelligence to make its 160,000 workers more productive rather than replacing them. The company identified repetitive and tedious…
A cybersecurity professional argues that AI-generated content is eroding meaningful human interaction in the workplace, with workers increasingly relying on chatbots to draft emails, documents, and code without deliberat…
Shift, an AI training startup, is offering free home cleaning services in New York in exchange for recording the work to train future robots. Cleaners will wear a camera-equipped "magic hat" to capture footage from their…
Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta warned that artificial intelligence tools in legal research risk producing hallucinations and fake citations, according to an excerpt from his new collections published by Rupa Pub…
A Hacker News user expressed concern that the community is in denial about AI's negative implications, arguing that many commenters focus on current capability gaps rather than the rapid rate of improvement. The user war…
Journalist Paul Heaton, director of Penn Law School's Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, successfully used the Reid Technique—a police interrogation method known for eliciting false confessions—to get ChatGPT…
The 177-year run of Schlitz Beer ended last week, but the brand's historic rise offers a lesson for companies adopting artificial intelligence in 2026. Schlitz became America's top brewer by using radical transparency in…