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Cory Doctorow argues in a new book and podcast interview that the AI boom is driven by unsustainable hype and power dynamics that benefit bosses at the expense of workers, coining the term "enshittification" to describe …
A new phenomenon called 'Vibe Management' is emerging where middle managers use AI like Claude to generate strategy documents without genuine thought, creating a digital echo chamber of hallucinated strategies. This pose…
OpenAI signed a multi-year agreement with Getty Images to display the company's licensed visual content in ChatGPT's search and discovery features, excluding AI training rights. Getty shares rose on the news, reflecting …
Anthropic engineering leader Fiona Fung says Claude Code is making programmers lonelier as they increasingly rely on AI agents, prompting her team to organize programming lunches and hackathons to restore collaboration. …
AI-generated websites, deepfake videos, and convincing phishing campaigns are making World Cup scams harder to spot ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Over 13,000 FIFA-themed domains were registered between January and Ma…
Some electricians are questioning the ethics of working on data center projects that power AI, with debates emerging in online communities like Reddit's r/electricians. While some workers see data center jobs as opportun…
Onbalance, a privacy-first cashflow planning app, released a multiuser update. The app features on-device end-to-end encryption, offline-first functionality, and no external connections or AI, targeting solo entrepreneur…
Indonesia plans to embed artificial intelligence into President Prabowo Subianto's flagship programmes, including a $15 billion free-meal scheme for 83 million children and pregnant women, to improve logistics and reduce…
Spreedly senior product manager for AI Judd Howard told PYMNTS that artificial intelligence is compressing the distance between differentiation and commoditization in payments, shifting competitive advantage toward data,…
Startup founder and IIT alumnus Devaansh Bhandari sparked debate on X over student reliance on AI tools like ChatGPT for coding, arguing that debugging without AI builds critical thinking. The viral post highlights conce…
Nvidia claims its next-generation liquid cooling systems achieve 300x water efficiency, addressing AI data center water consumption. The GB200 NVL72 and Vera Rubin platforms use warm-water direct-to-chip cooling, but exp…
European Central Bank research finds that jobs vulnerable to AI substitution declined in the US between 2019 and 2025, while firms adopting AI are 4% more likely to hire and see 4% labor productivity gains. The ECB's sur…
JetBrains Research found 74% of developers use AI tools, with Claude Code becoming the most popular coding assistant since May 2025, according to Jellyfish's 2026 report. Industry leaders warn that reliance on proprietar…
A developer with over a year of experience using LLMs and agents for coding warns that 'vibe coding' creates a false sense of productivity. The shift from writing code to reviewing AI-generated code increases cognitive l…
A Singaporean man, identified only as Luke, filed a police report after discovering a former schoolmate used AI to generate fake photos depicting them as a family, including images of a pregnancy and newborn. The man, wh…
A developer argues that adopting AI is not a simple software upgrade but requires an organizational redesign. The post identifies four key shifts—decision speed, accountability, escalation paths, and operational expectat…
The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival closed on June 21 with debut directors winning top honors, including Zhong Kaifeng's "Atlantic Rhapsody" taking the Golden Goblet for best feature. The festival also highligh…
A new open-source tool called Trace Commons allows developers to donate anonymized traces from coding-agent sessions to a CC-BY-4.0 dataset on Hugging Face, aiming to make reasoning data from tools like Claude Code and C…
Rutger Bregman argues that AI's environmental and social costs are often overlooked, calling for more honest discussions about its true impact.
Coursera CTO Mustafa Furniturewala said in an interview that AI has made information more accessible but that translating it into practical skills remains the main challenge, emphasizing the need for pedagogy and expert …