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Oxford mathematics professor John Lennox warns that AI could be used by authoritarian regimes to destroy the world, drawing parallels to totalitarian states he experienced during the Cold War. He criticizes transhumanist…
DigiCert announced it is bringing independent trust validation to confidential computing environments in collaboration with Google Cloud, using PKI to cryptographically verify cloud-hosted systems and workloads. This aim…
A senior engineer observes that AI tools are replacing the first-order conversation about whether code works, but not the second-order judgment about architectural direction and long-term trade-offs. The craft of enginee…
A vendor-commissioned study by Commerce and PayPal found 64% of 1,000 UK online shoppers are interested in agentic AI shopping assistants, but only 21% currently use AI for shopping. 46% believe brands should not pay for…
A developer warns that running local AI assistants like the popular openclaw project, which has over 360,000 stars on GitHub, can be more expensive than cloud alternatives due to hidden maintenance costs. The developer e…
Wall Street ended lower on June 23, with the Nasdaq plunging 2.2% and the S&P 500 dropping 1.4%, as investors sold off semiconductor stocks amid concerns that hyperscaler AI spending may not generate sufficient returns t…
Women express higher caution and lower trust in AI than men, yet they hold only 15% of executive AI roles globally, creating a strategic blind spot in AI development. The CEO of Smart Communications argues that women's r…
The combined weight of India's software exporters in the Nifty index fell below 7.6%, a record low, as generative AI tools threaten the traditional outsourcing model worth up to $300 billion. The Nifty IT index plunged 2…
Fintech company Slash reported that an employee accidentally burned $80,000 in AI tokens building a 'brainrot shooter game' called Brainrot Shooter. The employee, Nicolas Brilliante, Slash's head of strategic verticals, …
Kazakhstan presented its digital transformation and AI achievements at a UN high-level event in New York, highlighting its transition to an AI-Native Government model and national AI ecosystem. Vice Minister Bakhtiyar Mu…
Premium media owners' only irreplaceable asset against generative AI is audience trust, as AI now produces good-enough content that erases traditional advantages like voice and expertise. The old marketing funnel is insu…
Tech stocks tumbled Tuesday, dragging the Nasdaq down about 2%, as investors sold off shares of AI-related companies amid concerns over sky-high valuations, massive data-center spending, and geopolitical risks. Chipmaker…
A new report from Aikido Security reveals that 76% of organizations have halted or rolled back AI-driven behavior due to security concerns, and 71% report that AI or automation has caused security issues, highlighting th…
Veilus Digital released the cryptographic core of its Phantom Chat messenger as source-available code on GitHub, allowing independent verification of its post-quantum security claims. The package includes implementations…
Amazon launched Alexa+ Agentic Ads during Cannes Lions and Prime Day, allowing customers to make purchases via voice commands on Echo Show devices, but users and tech reporters have criticized the increased ad load. Mean…
At the Cannes Lions festival, marketers are shifting focus from creative campaigns to brand coherence as AI systems like LLMs synthesize inconsistent brand messages across channels. The real crisis is not about SEO but a…
Researchers introduced RIFT-Bench, a graph-driven methodology for dynamic red-teaming of agentic AI systems, enabling unified security evaluations across diverse architectures. The framework operates in two automated pha…
Researchers developed a hybrid machine learning model combining ensemble feature selection and Harris Hawks optimization to predict depression in female sex workers with 95.78% accuracy. The model identified post-traumat…
Researchers introduced a multi-objective reinforcement learning framework for recommender systems that uses a Pareto-DQN agent with semantic embeddings to optimize engagement, diversity, and fairness as separate reward s…
A study of Chinese listed firms from 2015 to 2023 found that human-centric AI (HCAI) reduces firm idiosyncratic risks by aligning with stakeholder expectations and mitigating ethical risks. Digitalization and executive s…