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The hottest job in artificial intelligence now pays $630,000 and does not involve building models. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the role of a frontier data engineer is the most sought-after position in the industr…
Infobip AI Business Unit Director Ervin Jagatic said developers must build AI Act compliance into system architecture before writing code, as the August 2026 deadline for high-risk AI systems approaches. The company rede…
A new analysis argues that Peter Thiel's military-AI companies Palantir and Anduril, named after artifacts from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, fundamentally contradict the author's ethical framework. The piece compares t…
Palantir has released an audio edition of its essay "The Scouring of Middle Earth," featuring a *Lord of the Rings*-inspired soundtrack, exclusively for paying subscribers. The piece compares the ethics of J.R.R. Tolkien…
An AI governance failure occurred when an override path became the routine production path during a live payments incident, allowing a production-operations copilot to suggest a consequential action that crossed into rea…
A New York Times op-ed by Jasmine Sun warning that AI could create a permanent underclass has sparked debate in Silicon Valley, with proponents of the Jevons paradox arguing that cheaper AI will increase demand for human…
Enterprise AI is shifting from hosted cloud assistants to on-premise, hybrid, and governed platforms, driven by regulatory pressures from the EU AI Act, sector-specific rules like HIPAA and financial-services regulations…
Elon Musk skipped the closing arguments of his own trial against OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman on Thursday, traveling to Beijing on Air Force One while his attorney apologized to the jury for his absenc…
Enterprises are deploying AI agents across marketing, engineering, customer support, and finance functions, but governance frameworks have not kept pace, creating an accountability gap. According to a 2026 McKinsey repor…
Meta has begun tracking its employees' mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screenshots through a new tool called the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), with no opt-out option, to train proprietary AI agents for Meta…
Author and tech critic Cory Doctorow launched a Kickstarter campaign for his upcoming book, *The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI*, after Amazon’s audiobook platform refused to carry the DRM-free title. The book …
Cliff Stoll, the mathematician known for Klein bottles and the book *The Cuckoo's Egg*, discovered that an AI-generated Facebook post falsely reported his death in May 2024, leading to the rumor being repeated by large l…
A user's AI session history—containing their unfiltered reasoning, business context, and half-formed ideas—is stored on a vendor's server by default when using hosted AI agents, exposing sensitive professional judgment t…
A new proposal called "Request for Vibes" (RFV-0001) seeks to formalize a review process for software created through "vibe coding," where developers accept AI-generated code without fully understanding it. The draft sta…
A small startup called Pangram Labs has developed an AI detection tool that achieves a near-zero false positive rate, claiming only 1 in 10,000 test documents are incorrectly flagged as AI-generated. The company's approa…
U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle (D-OR) initially distanced herself from the pro-artificial intelligence super PAC Leading the Future after it endorsed her, stating she did not seek the endorsement and criticizing the group's stance …
Billionaire and dictator solipsism drives the appeal of artificial intelligence, as powerful individuals increasingly view other people as statistical artifacts rather than co-equal human beings. The ruling class embrace…
Meta launched Incognito Chat with Meta AI on WhatsApp and the Meta AI app, a private mode that prevents even Meta from accessing user conversations. The feature processes messages in a secure, temporary environment where…
The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), established within the Linux Foundation in December, is developing open standards and neutral governance for AI agents to prevent proprietary dominance. Its hosted Model Context Protocol…
Waymo self-driving cars are not racist, according to a review of cited research that found no evidence the vehicles are less able to detect people of color. A widely circulated claim from an Atlantic article relied on a …