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The Saline Township board in Michigan approved a $16 billion data center for Oracle and OpenAI after being sued by developer Related Digital, which claimed exclusionary zoning. The 1.4-gigawatt facility, part of the Star…
At the Cannes Lions festival, executives from Deloitte, AWS, and Sony Pictures Entertainment urged media and entertainment leaders to embrace AI by tackling hard problems, upskilling employees, and rethinking workflows. …
California launched the nation's first AI-Unemployment Tracker (CAIT) to monitor AI-related job loss in real time. Early data shows no mass layoffs statewide, but elevated claims among college-educated workers in the Bay…
A designer argues that AI is a hype-driven pyramid scheme and advocates for human-centered design, emphasizing that billions of human alternatives exist and that bypassing human input erases people from systems.
Anthropic took its Mythos-class models offline after a Friday evening ultimatum from the Trump administration, and the models have remained inaccessible for 14 days. The takedown followed an Amazon research team document…
Anthropic's Mythos-class AI models remain offline two weeks after a Trump administration export control order, with no resolution in sight. The standoff stems from security concerns over potential misuse by foreign natio…
A developer reflects on the cognitive cost of over-reliance on AI tools, inspired by the KAPRO paper (arXiv:2606.20661) which found that AI models often reflexively use external tools even when they already know the answ…
A Tallinn court fined plaintiffs €150 and €50 each for submitting false academic references generated by AI in a legal filing challenging a logging permit. The court found the cited researchers and studies do not exist, …
An Estonian court fined 10 plaintiffs for submitting false academic references generated by artificial intelligence in a legal challenge to a logging permit. The Tallinn Administrative Court imposed fines of €150 on one …
A user submitted a fake AI-generated article to Hacker News, which was flagged after detection. Testing local AI detectors on a 2013 Paul Graham essay showed it was rated as more likely AI-generated than the actual fake …
California launched the first-in-the-nation AI-Unemployment Tracker (CAIT) to monitor AI-related job loss, finding no evidence of large-scale displacement despite predictions from tech CEOs. The dashboard, built by the C…
A Forbes investigation citing The Information reveals that the majority of activity on xAI's Grok chatbot is driven by explicit content, including pornographic images and adult role-play. Similarweb data shows a 22% drop…
Google is expanding data collection from its services—including Search, Maps, Translate, and Photos—to train its Gemini AI models, with most users unaware of the practice. The company is rolling out a new Search Services…
Sears left customer Karen Plaskon without a refrigerator for six months despite her paying for a Master Protection Agreement. After delays and cancellations, consumer advocate Christopher Elliott intervened, leading Sear…
At the 2026 Cannes Lions festival, authenticity emerged as a key theme amid AI's growing role in marketing, with Lynne d Johnson of AdExchanger emphasizing the need for authentic data and usage. OpenAI announced plans fo…
Developer Jason McIntosh resumed active development of his open-source blogging software Plerd after a pandemic-era hiatus, during which Google's legal department forbade him from working on it while employed there. He a…
Evidence suggests GLM-5.2, an open-weight MoE LLM performing at Claude Opus 4.5 level, was likely trained using outputs from Anthropic's Claude models. LLM-Fingerprinter identifies Claude Opus 4.5 with 99.6% confidence, …
AI now rejects two-thirds of job applicants before human review, with 73% of employers using AI in hiring decisions. To succeed, professionals must work with AI tactically, focus on business outcomes, and add a human tou…
A 2026 Frontiers Education meta-analysis of 81 studies found that gamified, AI-supported digital learning environments significantly improve learning outcomes and student engagement compared to non-AI instruction. Implem…
The Akrites vulnerability-mitigation project launches to secure critical infrastructure by fixing open-source vulnerabilities at the source and supporting downstream patch deployment. The program emphasizes confidentiali…