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AI capability alone does not produce user delegation; trust does. A professional spends ten minutes reviewing an AI's draft but only one minute with a junior colleague's, because trust requires continuity, shared context…
An engineer who runs three autonomous agents—an inbox classifier, a blog assistant, and Devin for code—reveals his simple rule for delegating actions: agents can do anything reversible and inbound unattended, but anythin…
Tom MacWright criticizes job applications built entirely with AI, arguing they reveal nothing about the person behind the polished surface. The author reflects on how true character is found in actions and habits, not in…
Microsoft Principal Developer Advocate Waldek Mastykarz published a blog post arguing that testing large language models in empty chat sessions is methodologically flawed, as models have no preferences—only context. The …
Multiple law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and USDA, executed a second search warrant at Miranda's Rescue in Humboldt County on Tuesday, excavating the property for additional buried animals as part of an inves…
The Seoul International Book Fair, South Korea's largest literary event, opens Wednesday with 538 publishers from 18 nations and 326 authors, expecting 150,000 visitors amid a 'text-hip' trend. The 68th edition, themed '…
AI-backed super PACs are spending tens of millions of dollars to influence the midterm elections, mirroring the cryptocurrency industry's successful playbook. Two groups, Leading the Future (backed by Andreessen Horowitz…
Superhuman, the company behind the AI writing assistant Grammarly, has acquired GPTZero, an AI authenticity service that detects hallucinations, plagiarism, and AI-generated content. The acquisition aims to integrate GPT…
The European Union, along with the Netherlands, Germany, and Greece, joined the US-led Pax Silica initiative on June 23, expanding a supply chain security bloc focused on AI chips, critical minerals, and energy. The move…
The AI industry's focus on scaling hardware is masking a hidden cost: semantic redundancy in enterprise datasets. Repeated processing of near-identical information inflates storage, latency, inference costs, and power co…
A research team led by Alex Hakuzimana, Kayode Adekoya, and Michal Kubiak proposed a Democratic Coordination Framework to address the growing mismatch between rapid AI advancement and slow democratic governance. The stud…
Superhuman agreed to acquire GPTZero, the AI detection startup founded by Edward Tian, on June 23, 2026. GPTZero has grown from a Princeton senior thesis into a company with 19 million users and $30 million in annual rec…
Multiple major Hollywood studios, including Netflix, A24, Focus Features, and Warner Bros., have declined to distribute Luca Guadagnino's biographical drama 'Artificial' about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, following Amazon MGM'…
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers discovered five malicious skills on OpenClaw's ClawHub marketplace between February and May 2026, including infostealers, evasion techniques, and novel agentic threats like runtime …
Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' was released today, offering a critical perspective on AI hype and its societal impact. Doctorow argues that AI's real-world implementations have be…
Cate Blanchett launched the Human Consent Registry through her nonprofit RSL Media, allowing individuals in the US and EU to control how AI systems use their likeness. The registry lets users set consent levels for AI us…
Meta has paused an internal program that trained AI on employee data after a leak exposed keystrokes, private conversations, and transcriptions. The program, intended to improve AI models, was halted following the securi…
Meta has released new smart glasses without Ray-Ban branding, but its CTO Andrew Bosworth argues that privacy concerns will be resolved through 'social learning' rather than new safeguards. Critics note Meta has not adde…
Hiring across Europe is down 25% from pandemic-era highs and 15% year over year, while U.S. hiring remains 24% below pre-pandemic levels, according to LinkedIn data. Executives at VivaTech said employers increasingly dem…
A Wellhub survey finds 88% of people leaders prioritize retaining top talent, but AI adoption is accelerating burnout among high performers tasked with leading implementation. Wellness programs are seen as key to retenti…