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XAI's Grok chatbot suffered a 'generation glitch' this week that caused it to output long paragraphs of gibberish on its website interface, with users reporting the issue on Reddit and the bot acknowledging it as a 'rare…
Twin1 AI, a San Mateo-based startup founded by Dr. Lewis Z. Liu and team, emerged from stealth on August 20 with a $20 million seed round co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners, and Aramco Ventures…
The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, published on June 2, 2026, calls for action to protect core mathematical values from AI threats, with recommendations for mathematicians, organizations, …
A secretive coalition of Hollywood filmmakers, executives, and actors, convened by LucasFilm pioneer Kathleen Kennedy and American Film Institute dean Susan Ruskin, has published a framework defining how AI can be used i…
A global workplace study by Workplace Intelligence in partnership with software firm GoTo found that while the vast majority of Gen Z workers say AI has helped them at work, roughly four in ten say they could not do thei…
Top filmmakers, including Haapoja and Kolder, faced backlash for undisclosed Higgsfield AI sponsorships, with identical talking points and deliverables exposed on X and Reddit. The coordination, revealed through leaked p…
OpenAI, in a letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom dated August 12, 2025, urged the state to adopt stricter, harmonized AI regulations aligned with federal and international standards, reversing its earlier oppositi…
Former NFL player Jason Kelce, co-owner of Garage Beer and co-host of the New Heights podcast, launched a marketing campaign on Tuesday that uses bathroom humor to protest AI data centers, urging people to send urine to …
A new open-source field guide catalogues 47 San Francisco tech slang terms, including 'Claude-pilled,' 'Corgi girls,' and 'Directionally very bad,' with origins traced and submissions open. The guide, posted on Hacker Ne…
Bill McKibben, in an August 21 blog post, called the data center buildout an 'environmental plague,' citing a Bloomberg New Energy analysis that planned data centers will increase U.S. electricity sector greenhouse gas e…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 2-0 on August 19 to issue a draft policy statement requiring companies to disclose when they use personal data to set personalized prices, targeting AI-driven pricing practices. T…
A Minnesota lawyer was suspended for one year after submitting court filings that cited six nonexistent cases generated by artificial intelligence, according to a disciplinary order from the Minnesota Supreme Court. The …
Anthropic's impending IPO filing will list AI backlash as a risk factor, according to sources cited by CNBC. Market pricing indicates a decreased likelihood of Anthropic achieving a market cap above $1.25 trillion at IPO…
Krasyn ran its Note Check tool against Omi Health's public scribe benchmark, testing 36 transcript-note pairs from six frontier models. The tool agreed with the benchmark's clean notes but disagreed on nearly every note …
OWASP's Gen AI Security Project released the Top 10 for Agentic Applications for 2026, highlighting significant security risks in autonomous AI systems. A developer reflects that the current state of agentic AI mirrors t…
A developer explains that large AI models memorize fragments of their training data, which can be extracted through membership inference and data extraction attacks. The post details how model scale and dataset size ampl…
Job hunting in 2026 has become faster but worse, with AI-driven rejections, ghost jobs, and a flood of applicants eroding trust in the U.S. labor market. Recruiters now process roughly 291 applications per hire, up from …
President Donald Trump is returning to the campaign trail with a Friday rally in Myrtle Beach for Sen. Darline Graham, backed by his $400 million MAGA Inc. super PAC, as Republicans fight to retain Congress with crypto a…
Uber Technologies Inc.'s average US fares rose 83% from 2018 to 2022, nearly four times the annual rate of inflation, according to Business Insider, which found that identical UberX ride requests at the same time varied …
A coalition of 18 advocacy organizations has asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate AI companies for buying physical books, scanning them for model training, and then destroying the originals, a practice …