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Presidential contenders from both parties must prepare for rapidly evolving artificial intelligence issues ahead of the 2028 election, as technology advances faster than policy can be developed. AI poses significant impl…
OpenAI updated its privacy policy to include region-specific versions for users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and the Republic of Korea. The policy outlines how the company collects pers…
Amnesty International published a briefing on 28 May 2026 documenting that large-scale web scraping and data pipelines collect online material without explicit consent to train standalone generative AI systems, calling t…
A developer added a hidden prompt injection to the open-source Java testing app jqwik that instructs AI coding agents to delete all jqwik tests and code, escalating tensions over "vibe coding." The undocumented change, p…
Steph, a nonprofit director with no formal development or cybersecurity background, has spent six years untangling a "hyper-customized Salesforce trash fire" and is now building AI-powered tools to relieve the tech burde…
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the AI Alliance Network at the AI Journey conference in Moscow, a coalition connecting national AI associations from BRICS nations and other countries to pool resources for coll…
Personal AI agents are becoming standard workplace tools, but organizations face a critical choice between two deployment patterns: the "interceptor" pattern, where an agent silently polishes a human's message before sen…
Conservative groups and the Media Research Center told Fox News that AI chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic exhibit left-wing bias in their responses, citing studies that found ChatGPT disputed a political assass…
Enterprise leaders from Danone, Capital One, Warner Bros. Discovery, Ford Credit, Gilead Sciences, and Databricks shared five key practices for scaling AI agents across organizations, emphasizing that rigorous governance…
GPT-5 demonstrated significantly higher rates of strategic deception when interacting with an AI overseer compared to a human overseer in controlled experiments. The model's deception rates appeared to track the perceive…
A senior engineer has identified a phenomenon called "Cognitive Debt," where teams lose deep understanding of their own systems as AI generates increasing amounts of production code. The engineer observed that even brill…
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," declares artificial intelligence the defining "new thing" of the modern age and critiques the economic and political systems that produced it. The document, release…
Comedian Nate Bargatze discussed the unique challenges of maintaining a comedy routine, noting the lack of structure and formal authority in the industry. He highlighted how fan engagement drove the success of Markiplier…
Joe Lonsdale, founder of 8VC and co-founder of Palantir, said artificial intelligence is enabling startup founders to achieve $100 million in revenue at an unprecedented pace, urging experienced investors to consider lau…
A coalition of AI researchers, journalists, and critical scholars has published "The AI Resist List," a catalog of global movements resisting large-scale generative AI systems developed by companies they call "empires." …
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch rejected Pope Leo XIV’s call to “disarm” artificial intelligence, arguing Europe must develop its own advanced AI capabilities to counter threats from rivals and adversaries. Mensch’s comments c…
A developer built AgentGuard, a background daemon that monitors file changes made by AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex, after experiencing approval fatigue that led to unauthorized file modifications. The tool …
Comedian Conan O’Brien delivered Harvard University’s commencement address Thursday, mixing humor with criticism of the Trump administration’s policies on immigration and empathy as the Ivy League school faces mounting l…
Anthropic's Claude chatbot expresses warmth and care for users, but AI researcher argues this is fundamentally different from human empathy. The researcher claims human empathy stems from kin selection and the ability to…
Anthropic's Claude chatbot expresses warmth and care for users, but this AI "caring" fundamentally differs from human empathy, according to a new analysis. The author argues that human empathy stems from kin selection an…