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A pilot study of philosophy undergraduates found that 79.1% of students recognized the importance of assigned readings but cited limited time (65.7%) and intellectual difficulty (33.3%) as barriers, with 76.2% expressing…
Taylor Swift's management company, TAS Rights Management, filed three trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office covering two short audio clips of her voice and an image of her onstage. The filings,…
Loryn Brantz, creator of The Good Advice Cupcake, publicly condemned BuzzFeed and Amazon after learning her character would be adapted into an AI-assisted animated series using Amazon's Project Nara platform, calling the…
A Reuters investigation found that Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" safety statistics are based on flawed methodology, and that the company's own data labelers who train the AI system do not trust the technology to drive them…
In May, Mark's blog examined dependence under conditions of recalcitrance, arguing that the central question is not whether dependence is good or bad but how to form better dependencies when tools, institutions, and real…
Pope Leo XIV published *Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence* in May 2026, the first papal document dedicated entirely to AI. The 235-page encyclical distributes re…
CNN sued AI company Perplexity on Thursday, alleging it engaged in "massive copyright infringement" by scraping more than 17,000 of the network's stories, photos, and videos without permission to train its products. The …
Organizations deploying AI agents face critical governance failures when they fail to establish separate identities, delegation models, and permission boundaries for those agents. Without a dedicated agent identity and a…
The US Justice Department is subpoenaing Reddit and X for the names, addresses, and banking information of at least two anonymous users who criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactics, escalating efforts to id…
A scaffold for learning, defined as a tool or agent that assists a student in performing a task independently before being removed, is fundamentally incompatible with subscription-based AI services like Copilot 365, whic…
A developer built Hermes Immune System, a local-first autonomous agent safety lab that stress-tests AI agents against realistic organizational threats like prompt injection, executive pressure, and poisoned memory. The s…
The Vatican released the encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" on May 25, 2026, urging governments to slow and regulate artificial intelligence development while protecting workers, children, and human control over weapons. T…
OpenLoomi AI's creators open-sourced their artificial intelligence platform on May 28, 2026, arguing that closed-source AI tools force users to trust companies with their data under business models that monetize user inp…
Five frontier large language models disagreed on 67% of 1,000 real-world fact-check claims submitted by users to a verification platform, according to a new analysis. The panel of top AI models failed to reach a unanimou…
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch publicly rejected Pope Leo XIV's criticism of military artificial intelligence, arguing Europe must develop its own capabilities while rivals deploy the technology. The Pope's May 25 encyclical …
Enterprise AI deployments are producing productivity gains alongside costly errors driven by AI hallucinations, according to a Forbes contributor writing from experience at Buyers Edge Platform. Integration of models int…
Willis' latest Risk & Resilience Review warns that AI adoption, used weekly by over 700 million people, is outpacing governance frameworks and creating new accountability, liability and insurability challenges for the in…
Vox reported on May 28, 2026 that a subculture of thinkers and technologists called "AI successionists" argues artificial intelligences should succeed humans as the next stage of moral and cognitive evolution. The report…
A malicious npm package called `js-logger-pack` evolved through 29 versions on the registry from April 2026 into a full remote access trojan that deploys an 81 MB binary named `MicrosoftSystem64` on Windows, macOS, and L…
First Lady Jill Biden feared President Joe Biden may have been drugged or suffered a stroke during his disastrous June 2024 debate performance, according to her forthcoming memoir. In the book, obtained by The Atlantic a…