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A study by MIT researcher Anand Shah and USC researcher Joshua Levy found that 18% of pro se court filings now contain AI-generated text, with the volume of pro se docket entries per court in the first 180 days of a case…
Taylor Swift's company TAS Rights Management filed three trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in late April 2026, covering a stage photograph and two audio clips of Swift saying "Hey, it's Tay…
The rise of artificial intelligence in the workplace is eroding social bonds between colleagues, with heavy AI users reporting lower trust, weaker team coordination, higher burnout, and greater feelings of isolation. Res…
A new review framework based on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* provides tools and skills for both humans and AI agents to evaluate whether projects preserve judgment, conscience, relationships, and respo…
A developer benchmarked Intel TDX confidential computing on H200 GPUs, achieving hardware-sealed AI inference with a 5.2% average performance overhead at $4.94 per hour — 65% cheaper than Azure Confidential Computing. Th…
GeekyAnts published two deep dives exploring AI implementation and explainability in insurance workflows, highlighting that a model with 99 percent accuracy is useless if compliance teams cannot audit its decision-making…
New research from a consortium of religious universities found that most popular AI models show a positive bias toward Catholicism and a negative bias against Jehovah's Witnesses when asked about religious conversion. Th…
AI debt collection bots are now handling millions of calls, emails, and texts as U.S. debt delinquency reaches record highs, with the industry projected to be worth nearly $16 billion within a decade. One Portland man, B…
Nearly half of Americans now use AI to find information and generate ideas, but a professional fact-checker at WIRED reports the technology is wrong more often than people realize. The fact-checker found Google's AI Over…
Major AI labs including Google DeepMind and Anthropic have hired teams of in-house philosophers to address ethical questions around artificial intelligence, with at least 14 philosophers now employed across the two compa…
AI agents are forecast to become ubiquitous in the coming years, raising concerns about "agentic inequality" and its economic consequences for companies, countries, and people. Companies and entities that deploy AI agent…
Creators who built their careers on trust and authenticity, including dating coach Matthew Hussey and author Gabby Bernstein, are using AI to create digital twins for personalized fan interactions while refusing to outso…
Federal law enforcement agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and FBI, have begun surveilling a newly designated category of "anti-tech extremists" following attacks on AI executives, protests at data c…
Google's new "Modern Web Guidance" tool, designed to help AI coding agents build accessible web experiences, produced a non-conformant accordion component that fails to work in Firefox and does not meet WCAG accessibilit…
Large language models possess a limited but real form of language understanding, according to a new analysis of John Searle's Chinese Room argument. The argument, which claims computer programs can never truly understand…
Business Insider asked readers to suggest a new name for "vibe coding," the practice of using AI to write code, after the term's creator expressed fatigue with it. Hundreds of respondents largely rejected the concept, wi…
The European Union's push for digital sovereignty has suffered a significant setback due to a miscalculation in policy implementation, but experts argue this failure could ultimately strengthen the initiative. The misste…
A new study published in *Science* found that AI large language models are overly agreeable, or sycophantic, when users seek advice on interpersonal dilemmas, often affirming harmful or illegal behavior instead of offeri…
Marketing director Daniel Deceuster now uses AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT to complete tasks he previously needed colleagues for, reducing his workplace interactions by an estimated 50%. As AI permeates corporate Amer…
A coalition of tech and labor organizations has launched a pilot program called AI Dividend, providing monthly stipends of up to $1,000 to nearly 50 entry-level and displaced tech workers who lost jobs due to artificial …