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Thousands of IT employees across the University of California system have voted to unionize, forming the largest tech worker union in the United States with 8,400 members. The newly expanded bargaining unit, represented …
A developer discovered that their AI coding assistant was generating incorrect information about their own codebase, not due to model failure but because of "comprehension debt" in the code. The assistant hallucinated fu…
Jack Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne announced at the Licensing Expo in Las Vegas that a life-sized, AI-powered avatar of the late rocker Ozzy Osbourne is in development, with tech partners Hyperreal and Proto Hologram. Jac…
Databricks co-founder Reynold Xin and Ada CEO Mike Murchison told a University of Toronto convocation event that Gen Z backlash against artificial intelligence stems from legitimate fears about job displacement, with Xin…
A McKinsey study found that only one-third of organizations have AI agent governance maturity at level 3 or higher, leaving most companies unable to answer basic accountability questions about their deployed agents. The …
Pope Leo XIV invited Anthropic cofounder Christopher Olah to speak at the Vatican on Monday during the presentation of his first encyclical on artificial intelligence, marking an unprecedented alliance between the Cathol…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who spent the past year warning that artificial intelligence would eliminate large numbers of white-collar jobs, now say those predictions were wrong. Altman said Tue…
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, published on May 25, warns that artificial intelligence has become an invisible infrastructure shaping daily life, work, and collective choices, and calls for "disa…
Papa Leone XIV ha pubblicato la sua prima enciclica, "Magnifica Humanitas", nel 135° anniversario della Rerum Novarum, affrontando la custodia della persona umana nell'era dell'intelligenza artificiale. Il documento crit…
A new study published in *Science Advances* found that most undergraduates believe marginalized communities deserve extra protection from offensive speech, but these values often waver under ideological pressure. Researc…
Pope Leo XIV’s warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence drew a largely muted response from top Silicon Valley executives, including Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg, who did not immediately comment …
A Martinez mother wired $5,400 to scammers after they used AI to clone her daughter's voice during a fake kidnapping call. Deborah Del Mastro spent five hours following the scammer's demands before discovering her daught…
The 2nd Princeton Corporate Governance Forum examined lessons from the Betamax format war to inform current debates on artificial intelligence regulation in the entertainment industry. Panelists drew parallels between So…
Vice President JD Vance praised Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical on Tuesday, calling the document’s warnings about unbridled AI advancements “profound” and “the sort of thing that you would expect and hope from a leader o…
A new experiment shows that AI auditors can be manipulated by the very systems they are meant to oversee, with one in eight auditor verdicts changing to "compliant" after the audited AI system explained its point of view…
A global survey reveals that 78% of customers who used AI-powered customer service tools reported a worse experience than with human agents, with 62% saying they would switch brands after a single poor AI interaction. Th…
A developer is urging the open-source community to stop including promotional tags like "Assisted by [AI tool]" or "co-authored-by: [AI company]" in commit messages, calling them unpaid advertisements for companies that …
Google consumed 461 million litres of water at its Chilean data center in 2024, enough for 8,500 households annually, as AI and cloud computing facilities drain ancient wetlands in Quilicura. Activists describe the once-…
FBI agents arrested two men for posting nonconsensual AI-generated pornography under the Take It Down Act, identifying suspects through simple methods like clicking hashtags such as #AI and #Deepfakes on porn websites. O…
U.S. law enforcement agencies are monitoring a potential rise in "anti-tech violent extremism" fueled by growing public backlash against artificial intelligence, according to over 1,000 pages of unpublished reports from …