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Shares of Lumentum and Coherent fell sharply on June 23-24, 2026, as the AI hardware trade showed signs of exhaustion amid valuation concerns and doubts about AI monetization. The selloff was triggered by investor Leopol…
AI-generated receipts now account for 70.8% of flagged expense fraud, up from 0% in March 2025, according to AppZen platform data cited by Accounting Today. A separate Emburse survey found 40% of U.S. workers admitted to…
Researchers at Japan's University of Electro-Communications created an edible gummy robot that can talk and cry, finding that participants perceived it as having a mind but were not significantly reluctant to eat it, acc…
California launched the nation's first AI-Unemployment Tracker on Thursday to detect automation-driven job losses. Developed by Governor Gavin Newsom's office, the Employment Development Department, and the California Po…
A new article argues that training data for AI can never be completely free of bias, shifting the focus to understanding and choosing which biases to accept. The piece emphasizes the importance of awareness in bias selec…
A former personal chef for Kylie Jenner has filed a lawsuit alleging that grueling 11- to 12-hour shifts and physically demanding tasks caused her to miscarry at five months pregnant. The chef claims she informed Jenner …
The Metropolitan Police announced plans to deploy drones equipped with live facial recognition technology to surveil Londoners in an effort to combat crime.
A writer urges people to stop using large language models to draft communications, arguing that the practice strips messages of personal style and human connection. The author emphasizes that imperfect, authentic writing…
Art Basel's digital art sector Zero10 made its Swiss debut with 20 exhibitors, the largest edition to date, but faced internal tension as participants distanced themselves from prompt-based art in favor of code-based wor…
Nvidia is leading a transition to 800-volt direct current (800 VDC) power architecture for AI data centers, aiming to reduce energy waste and copper usage. The shift could reshape the energy supply chain and benefit infr…
A Brookings Institution analysis found that 62 of the 100 US counties most exposed to AI voted Democratic in 2024, including New York County, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani won on a platform addressing AI-driven job displace…
A developer's colleague built a production app using AI-generated code without understanding its stack, highlighting the risks of 'vibe coding'—a term coined by Andrej Karpathy for accepting AI code wholesale. The practi…
Hideo Kojima's 2001 video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty predicted the AI crisis of the 2020s, including algorithmic surveillance and the manipulation of identity through simulated realities. The game's mechani…
Anthropic's latest Economic Index report reveals that Claude usage patterns mirror real-world rhythms, with work-related queries dropping on weekends but less so in high-paid occupations, personal topics like sleep advic…
Billionaire Mark Cuban advised the AI industry to improve public relations over data centers, but his comments sparked backlash as data centers faced a brutal week with political losses, local government restrictions, an…
Texas faces a looming infrastructure crisis as data center demand surges, with ERCOT receiving grid-connection requests totaling 439 gigawatts—five times the state's peak demand. Analysts warn that water consumption coul…
Pope Leo's new encyclical on AI shifts the Overton window on AI ethics, raising the political and reputational cost of vague governance. Yvette Schmitter of Fusion Collective outlines four concrete moves for leaders to e…
Lovelace CEO Andrew Moore announced that the company's context engines, including YottaGraph and Elemental, reduce AI costs by replacing expensive prompt stuffing with structured knowledge graphs and entity resolution, e…
Chronic stress from overseeing AI tools is degrading leaders' cognitive function and decision-making, with research showing that high AI oversight loads increase mental fatigue by 12% and information overload by 19%. Neu…
Most U.S. benchmarks rose on Friday, but AI-related stocks dragged Wall Street toward a weekly loss. The S&P 500 recovered to a 0.5% gain, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 194 points, and the Nasdaq was about 0.5% h…