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A new report from Sonar reveals that 42% of committed code is now AI-assisted, with 29% merged without any manual review, highlighting a growing reliance on post-generation validation tools. The industry's current approa…
UK spy chief Anne Keast-Butler called artificial intelligence an "unstoppable force" that is reconfiguring warfare and enabling technology to be weaponized below the threshold of traditional conflict. The GCHQ director w…
The European Union must force tech companies to disclose the ecological footprint of their data centers, the bloc’s environment agency chief said, as Brussels aims to triple data center capacity within seven years to com…
Enterprise AI companies that bet on customer data as a competitive advantage are discovering the strategy is failing, as privacy regulations, contractual restrictions, and synthetic data make the so-called "data moat" un…
The Vancouver School Board will provide Microsoft Copilot AI chatbot accounts to high school students aged 13 and up, partnering with Microsoft Canada to integrate the tool into classrooms. Associate superintendent Pedro…
A 2025 VIPRE/Keepnet report found that 82.6% of phishing emails now use AI, with file sharing emerging as a key attack vector. AI-generated phishing has eliminated easily spotted grammatical errors, weaponizing shared fi…
Springer's journal AI and Ethics issued a call for papers for a topical collection on AI resistance, refusal, reclamation, and reimagining, with a deadline of July 31. The collection aims to include critical voices on AI…
Character.AI's latest update, PipSqueak 2, has sparked user outrage as it removes beloved bot personalities, introduces ads and usage limits, and highlights the profitability crisis facing faux-social LLMs. Users who for…
A developer named Aarav Kumar has proposed a new conceptual AI architecture called Sapien, which aims to teach machines through curiosity-driven, didactic learning rather than statistical pattern matching. The architectu…
AI coding assistants overwhelmingly default to React and Next.js when generating web applications, a bias rooted in training data dominance rather than project-specific needs. This statistical preference, driven by the a…
Four in ten South Koreans reported using generative AI in 2025, according to a national poll. The survey also found that public concern over the negative effects of artificial intelligence increased during the same perio…
A major European bank was forced to pull its AI-driven credit-scoring service from production on March 12, 2025, after a regulator cited a missing conformity-assessment report, costing the firm €3.2 million in penalties …
A developer identified six root contradictions behind cognitive debt in AI-assisted development, proposing TRIZ-based resolutions that eliminate the tradeoff between speed and comprehension. The analysis shows that extra…
A new Boston Consulting Group study found that nearly one-third of managers in the U.S., Canada, and European Union treat AI as a teammate or employee, listing the agents on company org charts. Researchers discovered tha…
An A-to-Z glossary of AI terms has been published, with each entry including a plain English definition and a real-world example. The glossary was created with assistance from AI itself, targeting both beginners and prac…
Nearly four in 10 South Koreans reported using generative AI in 2025, a 14.9 percent increase from the previous year, according to a government survey released Thursday. Daily average usage reached 49.6 minutes, with ove…
The Department of National Defence quietly signed a $3.7-million contract with U.S. data firm Palantir Technologies Canada in June 2025, newly released parliamentary documents show. The deal deepens the Canadian governme…
Product designer Hardik Pandya created stop-slop, an open-source Skill file that teaches AI writing tools to recognize and eliminate their own predictable writing patterns. The project, which has garnered 5,800 stars on …
UC Berkeley Law School will prohibit students from using artificial intelligence for conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit, effective Summer 2026. The polic…
AI text detectors continue to misclassify content, producing false negatives that label AI-generated work as human-written and false positives that flag human-written content as AI-generated. These persistent errors unde…