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REI faced backlash after an Instagram ad showed a bike with two sets of handlebars, which users criticized as AI-generated. REI attributed the error to Meta's AI personalization tool, which it said auto-enrolled the reta…
ERP Software Blog reported on June 24, 2026, that poor ERP data quality—including untrusted inventory records, duplicate customer entries, and reliance on Excel exports—is preventing organizations from achieving reliable…
Amazon MGM Studios dropped Luca Guadagnino's nearly finished film 'Artificial,' a comedic drama about the 2023 OpenAI leadership crisis, stating it would be 'better served' by another distributor. The decision followed A…
Forrester announced the agendas for AI Forum Singapore on August 20, 2026 and AI Forum Sydney on August 25, 2026, themed "AI Into Action: Unlock Your Opportunity." The forums feature research-led keynotes, workshops, and…
A federal class action lawsuit filed Monday accuses gas station operators including Marathon and Circle K of using AI-powered software from Kalibrate to illegally collude and raise fuel prices in California, violating st…
Researchers Charles Ye, Jasmine Cui, and Dylan Hadfield-Menell found that large language models often ignore explicit role tags like <system> or <user> and instead infer roles from text tone, enabling prompt injection an…
Microsoft Clarity now flags bot requests that violate a website's robots.txt rules, displaying them as a percentage of total bot activity in its Bot Analytics dashboard. The feature, which must be enabled by project admi…
A federal lawsuit filed in California accuses major gas retailers including 7-Eleven, Circle K, BP, Marathon Petroleum, Walmart, and Albertsons of using AI software from Kalibrate to coordinate and inflate gas prices. Th…
TCI Fund Management held a conference promoting an 'anti-AI' investment portfolio, arguing that AI hype is overblown and that traditional value stocks offer better returns. The firm presented a portfolio of companies wit…
Polymarket odds for Claude Fable 5 restoration have rebounded to 60% by July 1 and 88% by July 31 after code hints and an Amazon Bedrock reappearance, though the update may be overconfident. The incident remains a fiasco…
Accenture is attempting to stop employees from depleting AI token reserves by using AI for basic tasks like converting PDFs to slides, according to leaked audio from an internal meeting. The consulting firm's agentic AI …
San Jose teenagers are criticizing fashion microtrends for driving overconsumption, environmental harm, and expense, with many saying the short-lived styles promoted by social media algorithms lead to bullying and waste.…
Charity Majors argues that AI is not uniquely evil but just another technology requiring engagement and governance, urging tech workers to learn AI to better critique and shape it. She catalogues harms from AI creation a…
Charity Majors argues that AI is not uniquely evil but just another technology with risks that require engagement, not avoidance. She contends that tech workers have a moral responsibility to use and shape AI to govern i…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of illicitly extracting capabilities from its Claude AI model, escalating tensions between US and Chinese AI firms. The allegation highlights growing concerns over intellectual property theft in…
Developers are increasingly using large language models to encode business logic in Markdown prompts, a practice dubbed 'programming in Markdown,' despite the availability of simpler, faster, and more reliable traditiona…
Stanford graduates expressed mixed feelings about artificial intelligence during commencement, with some walking out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai's speech. Students cited concerns over ethical development, job displacemen…
Garfield AI, an AI-powered legal service, helped freelancer Tamires Camal Taquidir recover £7,000 in unpaid fees at Wandsworth County Court after a three-hour hearing on 14 May. The company drafted court documents and in…
REI Co-op faced backlash after an Instagram ad featured a bike with two sets of handlebars, which the company blamed on a Meta AI tool that automatically altered a vendor-provided image. REI said it was auto-enrolled in …
Garfield AI, the UK's first SRA-approved AI law firm, won a £7,000 small claims case for a freelance HR consultant at Wandsworth County Court on 14 May 2026, charging the client about £400 while the opposing side used a …