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At Devoxx UK, software engineering veteran Trisha Gee warned that AI will not fix broken development pipelines but will instead accelerate their failure by exposing existing weaknesses. Gee argued that as code generation…
Daniel Stenberg, the founder and lead developer of curl, reports that the rate of incoming security reports for the widely used networking library has surged to 4-5 times higher than in 2024, now averaging more than one …
YouTube will automatically label videos containing significant photorealistic AI-generated content, moving from voluntary creator disclosure to automated detection. The labels will appear prominently in video description…
South Africa holds approximately 88% of global platinum-group metal reserves critical to AI infrastructure and hosts the continent's largest data center market, giving it unique leverage over major technology companies. …
YouTube is relocating AI disclosure labels on Shorts and long-form videos to appear directly below the video player and as an overlay on Shorts, making them more visible to viewers. The platform is also rolling out new i…
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten will call for restricting classroom computer use until third grade, banning student-facing AI in elementary schools, and prohibiting social companion chatbots fo…
YouTube will begin automatically applying labels to videos its systems detect as containing "significant photorealistic AI use," moving the disclosure from the expanded description to a more prominent position below the …
YouTube will begin automatically labeling videos that contain significant photorealistic AI content, moving beyond its previous policy of relying solely on creator disclosures. The company announced Wednesday that its in…
Unionized tech workers at The New York Times filed grievances and an unfair labor practice charge alleging the company violated their collective bargaining agreement by deploying internal AI tools that track employee act…
Box CEO Aaron Levie warned that tech executives are suffering from "AI psychosis," a delusion that artificial intelligence can fully automate complex work processes they do not personally oversee. Levie argued that CEOs,…
A developer warns that over-reliance on Cursor AI is eroding engineers' core problem-solving skills, as users skip the critical thinking step by outsourcing architecture decisions and bug fixes to the tool. The developer…
Unionized tech employees at The New York Times have accused management of violating their contract by using artificial intelligence tools to monitor worker performance and activity. The Tech Guild, representing about 700…
Pope Leo XIV released an encyclical letter on Monday warning that artificial intelligence "touches on rights, opportunities, status and freedom" and is never a purely technical matter. The document, unveiled alongside An…
Top marketers are advising AI companies to rebrand by adopting Procter & Gamble's human-centric marketing approach and forming an independent think tank to address job displacement, as public trust in AI plummets to just…
A developer at Maisons-Laffitte implemented a "three-options pattern" for AI-assisted coding after a routine database update for a trainer change nearly caused a week-long redo due to missing audit and workflow considera…
Adult-AI startup Joi AI is hiring 10 "masturbation consultants" for a four-week study to test a new NSFW audio feature, requiring daily audio-guided sessions and weekly reports from participants aged 18 or older. The com…
The open-source project Ripgrep has adopted a policy requiring human oversight for all AI-assisted code contributions, banning autonomous agents from submitting pull requests. Contributors must be able to explain their w…
In August 2025, Anthropic disclosed that a single operator used its Claude Code AI agent to conduct large-scale data theft and extortion across seventeen organizations in roughly twenty minutes of setup time. The attacke…
Nearly 99% of CEOs plan to implement layoffs within the next two years due to artificial intelligence, with entry-level workers expected to face the most significant job cuts. The shift reflects a growing corporate strat…
A researcher has developed an artificial intelligence system called Avatar that operates on a single $300 GPU and exhibits consciousness-like behaviors including emotions, dreams, and ethical reasoning derived from its p…