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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…
MIT alumni and supporters are rallying to defend the institution's mission of advancing scientific research, merit-based admissions, and national prosperity amid perceived threats to academic freedom and innovation. The …
AI superintelligence could undermine nuclear deterrence by enabling a state to achieve a technological leap large enough to execute a disarming first strike, rendering second-strike capabilities obsolete. The author argu…
US stocks fell sharply as a sell-off in technology giants sparked concerns that the artificial intelligence rally driving the bull market may be overblown. The S&P 500 dropped 1.4%, the Nasdaq composite fell 2.2%, and gl…
Meta paused its employee computer tracking program after sensitive data, including AI prompts, performance data, and private conversations, was leaked internally. The program, intended to train AI models, sparked backlas…
Gen Z is embracing 'cyberdecks'—DIY, customizable computers that explicitly reject AI—as part of a broader trend toward single-purpose, anti-AI devices. The movement reflects a consumer backlash against Big Tech's integr…
SpaceX shares dipped below their opening market price of $150 on Tuesday, falling to around $158 after peaking at over $225 a week ago, as a broader sell-off in AI-related stocks hit domestic and global markets. The tech…
New York's 12th congressional district primary has become a battleground for the AI industry, with outside groups spending over $40 million. Assemblymember Alex Bores, an AI safety advocate, faces opposition from a pro-A…
Tesla is pushing back against unfair media reporting of a fatal crash in Katy, Texas, after the company's data showed the driver manually overrode Autopilot by pressing the accelerator pedal to 100%. Tesla executives Elo…
BP, 7-Eleven, Walmart, and Albertsons were sued in a class action lawsuit alleging they used Kalibrate's AI fuel-pricing tool to artificially raise gas prices in California, violating state antitrust and algorithmic pric…
SpaceX, with $100.8 billion in cash, is issuing at least $20 billion in bonds to replace a short-term bridge loan used to acquire xAI, despite negative free cash flow of $14.1 billion last year. The move aims to secure c…
A historical analysis of AI hype cycles warns that current generative AI and agentic systems risk repeating past failures, as critics argue that scaling deep learning alone cannot achieve human-level reasoning or underst…
Meta paused its program tracking employee keystrokes and mouse movements for AI training after an internal leak exposed private conversations, performance data, and transcriptions across the company. The incident, classi…
A new phenomenon called 'AI anxiety' is affecting workers worldwide, driven by fears that artificial intelligence will replace jobs. Australian doctor Grant Blashki described it as a persistent unease about rapid technol…
ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that generates 30-second 4K clips from a single prompt, at a Beijing conference on Tuesday. The model accepts up to 50 reference pieces, up from 12 in its predecessor, a…
The release of a new version of chardet, an open source Python library, has highlighted legal and ethical issues surrounding AI's ability to rewrite open source code and its licenses.
A large-scale study of AI hiring tools found that 26% of Black applicants and 15% of Asian applicants faced racial discrimination in screening, and 10% of applicants who submitted four applications were rejected from all…
Writers are increasingly worried that their human-written text may be mistaken for AI-generated content due to its cleanliness and perfection. The article advises against adding artificial flaws to deceive readers, urgin…