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BusPatrol, a company that installed AI-powered cameras in over 40,000 school buses across 24 states to ticket drivers illegally passing stopped buses, now plans to convert those cameras into automatic license plate reade…
Anthropic and OpenAI publicly clashed with the U.S. Pentagon over military AI use, issuing statements in late February 2026 that banned mass domestic surveillance and certain autonomous lethal functions from their govern…
Open-source maintainers are being overwhelmed by a flood of low-quality, AI-generated pull requests, a crisis that has already forced the Jazzband Python project ecosystem to shut down and is now threatening enterprise e…
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, an 82-page document addressing artificial intelligence and its moral implications. The Pope argues that AI development should not be left solely to marke…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said this week he was "delighted to be wrong" about his earlier predictions that artificial intelligence would wipe out entry-level white-collar jobs. Speaking at a tech conference, Altman acknowled…
Hardware restrictions proposed to prevent dangerous superintelligent AI, such as limiting fabrication to 28 nanometer process nodes or computing capacity below 15,840 TFLOP/s, may inadvertently guarantee the creation of …
A new AI safety researcher has raised the question of how humans can judge the output of an Artificial General Intelligence, particularly in ethical and philosophical disputes. The researcher warns that AGI decisions may…
Researchers have introduced "Behavioral Specification" as a new interpretive layer for AI memory, arguing that current systems optimized for factual recall fail to capture how a specific person processes information into…
Engineers are increasingly using AI to refactor legacy codebases, gradually replacing nearly every line of code until the original design and architecture are unrecognizable, a phenomenon now termed "Theseus Slop." This …
Pope Leo XIV published an encyclical titled "Magnifica Humanitas" on May 25, 2026, calling for artificial intelligence to be "disarmed" and freed from logics of domination, exclusion, and death. The document, signed May …
Despite widespread fears that artificial intelligence is destroying white-collar jobs, US labor data shows unemployment in AI-exposed occupations is actually lower than in less-exposed jobs, with no evidence of mass shif…
The US military has already integrated AI into warfare, with systems like Project Maven using machine learning to analyze drone surveillance footage since 2017. Despite Anthropic's recent efforts to limit its AI technolo…
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek defended the company's use of artificial intelligence in music creation, arguing that AI tools can enhance human creativity rather than replace artists. Ek stated that Spotify will continue to embra…
A peer-reviewed study of 190 higher-education students found that AI literacy correlates positively with openness to experience, challenge appraisal, and positive emotions toward AI, as well as with Generative AI usage. …
LogiFlow completed a 15-week technical overhaul, surviving Black Friday without a single alert while reducing infrastructure costs by 60%. The team formalized "The LogiFlow Engineering Manifesto," establishing that AI ca…
The AI Resist List, a project by We & AI, DAIR, the Refugee Law Lab, and Karen Hao, launches to track resistance to artificial intelligence. Pope Leo XIV issues an encyclical on AI calling for community-led moderation, w…
A developer argues that current LLM benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, and SWE-bench measure only knowledge recall and one-shot task completion, not the behavioral traits—such as debugging, adaptation, and cross-session le…
Pope Leo XIV on Monday released a long-awaited encyclical titled "Magnifica Humanitas" that calls for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and urges developers to work for the common good rather than profit. The …
A coalition of tech and labor groups, led by the Fund for Guaranteed Income and What We Will, launched a pilot program called AI Dividend in late March to provide a monthly stipend of up to $1,000 to nearly 50 workers af…
Adoption of artificial intelligence in K-12 classrooms is uneven, with some districts teaching students to use AI tools while others ban them entirely. The emerging digital divide is driven by unequal device access, inco…