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Human Archive, a company backed by $8.2 million from investors including Wing Venture Capital and Y Combinator, is deploying head-mounted cameras on workers in India to collect first-person video data for training AI mod…
Google announced Gemini Omni, a new AI tool that generates videos from text, images, audio, or video, aiming to match the quality leap seen with its Nano Banana image generator. The tool includes an avatar feature that c…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared college degrees worthless because AI can teach better, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and venture capitalists predict entire classes of work will be "solved" within five years. The author…
On May 25th, Pope Leo XIV personally presented his first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, to an audience of cardinals, diplomats, and AI industry leaders in the Vatican's Synod Hall — a historically unprecedented move.…
World Labs launched AgentKit on March 17, 2026, a system that uses zero-knowledge proofs to let AI agents prove they are operated by a verified human without revealing personal identity. Coinbase released Agentic Wallets…
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark reported experiencing a hallucination in which he perceived a "ghost in the machine" after listening to Pope Francis speak about artificial intelligence. The incident highlights the psycho…
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark reported experiencing a hallucination in which he perceived a "ghost in the machine" after listening to Pope Francis speak about artificial intelligence. The incident highlights the growin…
An analysis by Linch Zhang, posted on the forum LessWrong, found that portions of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* were between 40 percent and 100 percent likely written by AI, according to the AI detector…
Anthropic reported that incorporating a tool allowing its AI model Claude to pause and recall its ethical commitments reduced misaligned behavior on internal evaluations, though researchers cannot determine whether the i…
DuckDuckGo's U.S. app installs spiked 30% in the week following Google I/O, with iOS installs peaking at 69.9% in a single day, as users sought alternatives to Google's AI-integrated search. However, the app users instal…
A Martinez mother lost approximately $5,400 after scammers used artificial intelligence to clone her daughter's voice during a fake kidnapping call in May. Deborah Del Mastro wired the money over five hours after hearing…
An East Bay mother, Deborah Del Mastro of Martinez, was scammed out of approximately $5,400 after callers used AI-generated audio to mimic her 37-year-old daughter's voice and claimed she had been kidnapped. The scammers…
Peter Thiel has delivered a series of private, invitation-only lectures in Rome exploring the concept of the Antichrist, drawing attendees from academia, technology, and religious circles, according to Reuters and CNN. R…
New research shows that post-training alignment makes large language models less human-like in their responses, raising questions about whether this drift is intentional or optimal. A study introducing the "Pinocchio dim…
Preventing malicious AI use faces jurisdictional gaps, as rogue states and lawless regions shield bad actors from existing laws. Open-source AI models complicate monitoring and denial efforts because they can run anywher…
Commencement speakers at multiple universities have been loudly booed by audiences for expressing optimism about artificial intelligence, reflecting growing public backlash against the technology's impact on job prospect…
Engineers who passively accept AI-generated code without interrogation are accumulating technical debt that compounds in production failures, according to a new analysis. The solution is not reducing AI use but adopting …
A writer who typically receives fewer than 100 views per post has shifted their audience from their future self to artificial intelligence, deliberately publishing personal thoughts and predictions online so future AI sy…
AI job displacement is already occurring, with Anthropic's 2025 Economic Index showing that artificial intelligence is being used most heavily for complex, high-wage cognitive work such as software development, legal res…
Companies adopting AI tools are seeing individual productivity gains but failing to translate them into organizational learning, creating an "apprenticeship gap" where tacit knowledge about effective AI use remains invis…