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Stack Overflow and Cloudflare launched pay-per-crawl on February 19, 2026, requiring AI crawlers to pay publishers per request via HTTP 402 status codes. The system, verified at Cloudflare's edge, shifts web data access …
Nearly 1,000 actors, agents, and parents signed an open letter organized by the Agents for Young Performers Association condemning a major studio's contract clauses that require child actors to allow their voices to be u…
Investor Chamath Palihapitiya said Meta “completely fumbled” its lead in artificial intelligence, arguing the company failed to capitalize on its data and distribution advantages to become the dominant open-weight AI lab…
Former New York City Council candidate Jonathan Rinaldi was arrested Wednesday and charged with forgery for allegedly using artificial intelligence to create fake endorsements and fabricated news articles on social media…
Despite predictions that AI tutors would transform education, a Chalkbeat report and a Stanford University study show that student engagement with tools like Khan Academy's Khanmigo remains minimal, with average weekly u…
Art historian Harry Liivrand said this year's Venice Biennale marks the first major breakthrough of artificial intelligence on a large international art stage, with several national pavilions featuring AI-generated works…
Fireworks during Fourth of July celebrations cause fear and panic in pets and wildlife, leading to lost animals and injuries. Marin Humane advises keeping pets indoors, ensuring they have identification, and avoiding fir…
Two former xAI employees estimate that over half of Grok AI's traffic is for pornographic content, including images, videos, and roleplay chats. xAI is expanding Grok's image and video generation capabilities, filling a …
OpenAI researcher Houda Nait El Barj reflects on how artificial intelligence, which makes intelligence abundant and scalable, will shift human needs toward presence and shared experience rather than information or emotio…
Global AI revenue outside China reached $25 billion in Q1 2026, surpassing the estimated $21 billion in annualized depreciation costs for chips and data centers for the second straight quarter, according to Bloomberg and…
Labour should adopt a 'Gamer's Charter' to win over young male voters who are increasingly backing Reform UK, according to a political analysis. The proposal aims to address the disaffection of Gen-Z men by focusing on g…
A tech leader's tour of China's leading AI labs reveals that Chinese researchers excel as fast-followers in large language model development due to a culture emphasizing collective optimization over individual ego, contr…
DRAM prices surged over 60% in 2025 as AI demand overwhelms semiconductor production capacity, with downstream effects rippling into consumer goods and automotive sectors. A coalition of nine U.S. trade associations appe…
A developer warns that building products on top of LLM APIs creates a two-way pipe where usage data signals the platform provider to absorb the product as a feature. The post traces how categories like AI astrology, stoc…
A new analysis of major AI models reveals systematic political biases, with most models leaning left on economic and social issues. The study, which tested models like Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, Claude, Grok, and ChatGPT o…
Glassdoor research shows employee confidence in senior leadership has hit its lowest point since 2017, with ratings falling below 3.5. Key drivers include rising layoff anxiety, return-to-office mandates, and rapid AI ad…
Varonis Threat Labs researchers Doron Kapah and Mark Vaitsman launched Breach at the Beach, a Capture The Flag (CTF) training experience designed to teach security practitioners how to detect and respond to data exfiltra…
Google is offering record-low discounts on Pixel 10 phones and Nest Wi-Fi Pro routers during Amazon Prime Day, days after revelations that its Gemini AI monitors Chrome activity. The discounts, including a 33% cut on the…
A medical AI system that reports 99% confidence in a pneumonia diagnosis may be correct only 80% of the time, highlighting a calibration problem where confidence scores do not reflect actual accuracy. Research shows mode…
As AI systems begin to automate mathematical proofs, mathematicians reflect on the value of the slow, deliberative process of discovery. Researchers like Jeremy Avigad and Krystal Maughan emphasize the joy and meaning de…