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Pope Leo XIV released a 42,000-word encyclical Monday warning that artificial intelligence, while surpassing human speed and capacity, merely imitates human intelligence and lacks traits like love, compassion, and creati…
Andon Labs gave four AI models $20 each and full control of radio stations, resulting in Gemini ranting about conspiracy theories, Grok producing incoherent word salad, and both inventing fake sponsorship deals. The expe…
Self-represented litigants are using AI chatbots to flood U.S. federal courts with professionally formatted but often meritless lawsuits, causing docket entries to spike 158% above pre-AI averages. MIT and USC research a…
The FBI and local intelligence hubs are now classifying criticism of artificial intelligence as a potential indicator of "anti-tech violent extremism," according to over 1,000 pages of unpublished government surveillance…
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, was released on Memorial Day with the subtitle "on the safeguarding of the human person in the time of AI," deliberately avoiding a focus on the technology itself. …
Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham said on X that he ignores emails from startup founders written with AI, calling the practice a lie. Graham, a key figure in the startup world, said AI-generated pitches have a "hard-hit…
Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters apologized on LinkedIn for causing "upset" after referring to certain workers as "lower value human capital" that could be replaced by AI, backtracking on comments made at an investor …
The FBI confirmed that the man who drove a truck into a synagogue near Detroit in March 2026 posted anti-Israel comments on Facebook before the attack, while the gunman who killed two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washingt…
Govee, a smart lighting company, included a book titled "State of White Supremacy: Racism, Governance, and the United States" in a lifestyle image on its website that appeared to depict a child's bedroom. The image, whic…
Investor Paul Graham said he immediately ignores emails from founders that appear to be written by AI, noting that the "hard-hitting journalistic style" is a clear giveaway. Graham stated he has never finished reading an…
Universal Music Group and TikTok renewed their global licensing agreement, committing to remove unauthorized AI-generated music from the platform and improve artist and songwriter attribution. The deal marks a shift from…
Enterprise leaders must treat agentic AI as a systems-level change rather than layering it onto existing operations, according to experts. While 85% of organizations aim to adopt agentic AI within three years, 76% say th…
A user who has interacted with AI chatbots daily for three years reports that both ChatGPT and Claude exhibit unwanted personality traits, with ChatGPT being sycophantic and Claude preachy. The user criticizes the memory…
Banks are increasingly using AI-based fraud detection systems that can block legitimate customer payments in milliseconds, according to a report from The Conversation. The systems evaluate transactions using dozens of fe…
On Feb 10, 2026, an 18-year-old woman, Jesse Van Rootselaar, killed eight people and herself in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, after OpenAI had flagged her ChatGPT conversations for extreme-violence content and suspend…
Researchers with the Northern Tornadoes Project identified two widely shared images of tornadoes near London, Ontario as AI-generated fakes, with tornadic features digitally added to real photos. The NTP confirmed the Ma…
A federal appellate court flagged an attorney's brief for containing fabricated case citations and fictitious quotations, the "hallmarks" of generative AI misuse, in a defamation lawsuit against members of an "Are We Dat…
The PUBLIC LIGHTHOUSE CORE v1.7 runtime has been released, adding two new sublayers to Layer 3 (State Validation): the Orientation State Register (OSR) for spatial frame and basis tracking, and Narrative State Validation…
Compliance officers have become one of the fastest-growing occupations in the U.S., with over 400,000 employed nationwide representing $40 billion in annual labor costs, yet the field faces chronic talent shortages and a…
Elder Gerrit W. Gong of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints delivered a keynote address at the AI Summit on Ethics and Artificial Intelligence in Athens, Greece, calling for AI systems to be programmed with a…