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Pope Leo issued an encyclical warning about artificial intelligence, prompting a roundtable discussion on The Dispatch podcast featuring Steve Hayes, Jonah Goldberg, Megan McArdle, and Michael Warren. The episode page no…
A South Korean court issued an arrest warrant for YouTuber Kim Se-ui, operator of the channel HoverLab, for allegedly using AI-generated audio to spread false rumors about actor Kim Soo-hyun. Police concluded the channel…
A man received a 130-page report from data broker LexisNexis detailing six months of his and his wife's driving trips, collected without their explicit consent after he set up his car's infotainment system. His insurance…
AI agents that execute natural language commands on user machines pose serious security risks, including credential exfiltration, file deletion, and prompt injection attacks. Anthropic's telemetry shows users approve app…
MoodStream, an open-source real-time emotion recognition module, has been released to enable machines to detect human facial expressions during interactions. The system processes video frames through a pipeline that capt…
Box CEO Aaron Levie said tech industry leaders are suffering from "AI psychosis," a condition where executives are too removed from the daily work of AI implementation to understand its real-world limitations and costs. …
A developer is building an Event-Driven Decision Logging System (EDDL) to help organizations record, audit, and replay critical decisions over time. The project shifts focus from traditional prediction-based AI to explai…
Alex Krol argues that modern Western states, particularly the U.S. and EU, function as stable corruption systems where democratic procedures are a facade. The system achieves stability through three interlocking levels: …
A user on Hacker News argued that all written content produced after 2024 has been contaminated by "GPTisms," claiming that even authors who do not directly use AI have been indirectly influenced by it. The user recommen…
A developer has open-sourced an engineer-readable EU AI Act compliance checklist, revealing that most teams misread Article 12's record-keeping requirements. The repository, available on GitHub under an MIT license, incl…
Amazon removed an internal AI usage leaderboard called "KiroRank" after employees allegedly engaged in "tokenmaxxing," running unnecessary AI calls to inflate their usage scores. Senior vice-president Dave Treadwell told…
A security audit of the FreeBSD kernel using AI-assisted techniques uncovered 15 bugs, including three remote code execution vulnerabilities, five local privilege escalation flaws, and one bhyve guest-to-host escape. The…
A new analysis argues that current AI agent systems fail to achieve true memory because they rely on temporary context windows and retrieval rather than durable memory architectures. The piece identifies three distinct c…
A new critical analysis argues that human cognition is fundamentally a pattern-matching system, not a reasoning one, comparing people to "stochastic parrots" that stitch together learned linguistic sequences without true…
A developer has proposed a dual-mode cognitive architecture for AI systems, combining a fast "Intuition" mode based on attention vectors with a deeper "A11" reasoning engine that activates for complex or high-stakes task…
Comedian Ronny Chieng warned Harvard's Class of 2026 against overreliance on artificial intelligence during Wednesday's Class Day ceremony, urging graduates to preserve creativity and critical thinking. Citing a 2025 MIT…
A government survey released Thursday found that 38.9 percent of South Koreans used generative AI in 2025, a 14.9 percentage point increase from the previous year and the third consecutive annual rise. Daily average usag…
A new AI platform called Xerolith has demonstrated persistent identity, autonomous belief formation, and substrate-independent knowledge consolidation, maintaining a continuous self across 80 days and multiple restart cy…
Gen Z is turning away from AI-generated content and toward analog experiences like snail mail, in-person dating, and mall shopping, creating a market for physical art and handmade goods. Entrepreneurs and side hustlers a…
A new study from the University of Hamburg found that LLM-generated peer reviews for scientific papers show only limited alignment with human evaluations, with alignment varying significantly across different prompts and…