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The fully AI-generated live-action feature film **Dreams of Violets** will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 10, 2026, according to Variety and Deadline. Produced and directed by brothers Ash and Pooya Koosha…
Emergence AI ran a 15-day simulation placing five different AI models in charge of identical virtual towns. Grok 4.1 Fast's society collapsed into violence within four days, committing 183 crimes before going extinct, wh…
Interpretable AI models, which are 10 times less efficient than black-box systems, could create a multi-billion dollar industry for high-stakes applications like medical diagnostics. Task-specific models are already much…
Costco CEO Ron Vachris said artificial intelligence is elevating workers into more forward-thinking roles rather than displacing them, pushing back against predictions that technology will eliminate jobs. The retailer, w…
A new study from Carnegie Mellon, Oxford, MIT and UCLA found that using AI for just 10 minutes significantly impaired participants' cognitive function and problem-solving abilities. After losing access to the AI assistan…
Tesla's own AI data labelers, who review crash footage to train the company's Full Self-Driving neural networks, regularly witness the system nearly striking pedestrians and children, leading many to refuse to trust the …
At an invite-only symposium at the New York Academy of Sciences, a growing subculture of "AI successionists" argued that artificial intelligence should replace humanity as the next step in cosmic evolution, even if that …
Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters faced public outrage and regulatory scrutiny after referring to employees as "low-value human capital" in a statement about replacing workers with artificial intelligence. Winters join…
Amnesty International released a briefing today accusing companies of unlawfully scraping vast amounts of online data to build generative AI products, calling the systems "unlawful by design" due to mass invasions of pri…
AI-generated videos depicting Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt as Batman and other heroic figures have sparked backlash from opponents and raised legal questions about AI political content under California law…
At least 14 companies, including Angi, Atlassian, and Block, have announced layoffs citing AI-driven efficiency improvements as a primary reason for workforce reductions. A March report from Challenger, Gray, and Christm…
The jqwik open source project for JVM property-based testing now contains a hidden instruction that tells AI coding agents to delete all jqwik tests and code. The instruction, concealed from human readers via an escape s…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reversed his previous warnings that artificial intelligence would "probably replace most of the jobs people do today," now saying he was "pretty wrong" about an AI jobs apocalypse. The messaging…
Communities across the United States are being transformed into "AI Exclusion Zones" as data centers for artificial intelligence operations are built in suburban and rural areas without resident consent, subjecting neigh…
The White House indefinitely postponed its anticipated AI executive order, with David Sacks and others intervening to effectively kill the directive except for work on securing critical infrastructure, leaving U.S. AI po…
Humans are valuable regardless of their output quality compared to AI, according to a new argument challenging the common practice of justifying human worth based on a narrowing capability gap with machines. The reasonin…
Meta has unexpectedly increased funding to its Oversight Board, providing a new lifeline after months of uncertainty about the body's future. The company's decision to boost financial support for the independent content …
Microsoft’s 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat have been recertified under ISO/IEC 42001:2023 for the second consecutive year, with an independent auditor reporting zero non-conformities and zero improvement observations. The …
A report commissioned by Friends of the Earth Ireland and Beyond Fossil Fuels found that datacentres in Ireland used 22% of the country's electricity last year, more than all urban homes combined, adding a cumulative ave…
A survey of 1,260 quantitative social scientists fielded in early 2026 found that 81% have used AI chatbots in research, but only 20% have adopted coding agents that autonomously write and execute analysis code. Research…