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The UK Cabinet Office published terms of reference for a sweeping review of the civil service, focusing on AI's impact, talent retention, and organizational structure. Outgoing PM Keir Starmer announced the review, which…
AI-generated celebrity Tilly Norwood, created by Dutch comedian Eline van der Velden and Particle6 AI studio, is set to star in a feature film titled 'Misaligned' about existential AI chaos. The project has drawn critici…
Generative AI has exposed the credential trap in higher education, where students prioritize degrees over learning due to rising tuition costs and labor-market pressures, leading to increased academic dishonesty. The shi…
AI is accelerating legacy IT modernization in regulated sectors like banking and insurance, but the primary risk has shifted from code conversion to proving that new systems comply with original business rules. Regulator…
A new poll from Athena Insights finds that Americans are nearly three times as likely to be concerned about AI's growing role in society as they are excited, with the majority expressing unease about the technology's imp…
Google's John Mueller responded to a post on Bluesky criticizing the trend of creating separate markdown versions for AI agents, stating that a properly made website works well for both AI agents and humans, and that sep…
The European Banking Authority warned banks to prepare for frontier AI risks, citing advanced large language models that could exploit software vulnerabilities faster than human security teams. The regulator urged streng…
A Flock Condor AI-powered surveillance camera installed at a community splash pad and playground in Johnson City, Tennessee, has sparked panic among residents who fear it could be used to watch children in bathing suits.…
Meta Platforms announced plans to spend between $115 billion and $145 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, nearly double its 2025 spending, triggering over $1 trillion in market cap losses across AI stocks. Nvidia and P…
A veteran HBO executive who navigated four tech disruptions advocates 'AI Minimalism' as the strategy for surviving the fifth wave of artificial intelligence. The approach calls for stripping operations to essential, eff…
The European Central Bank has ordered all supervised banks to submit cybersecurity action plans by October 31, citing a surge in AI-powered cyberattacks. The directive, announced by ECB Executive Board member Frank Elder…
The FCA-commissioned Mills Review signals a major regulatory shift, moving away from a hands-off approach to AI in financial services and recommending new rules for AI agents. The review highlights that one in five UK ad…
Shaan Puri returned to New York City after a decade and distilled five business lessons, including the rising value of trust as AI deepfakes proliferate. He argues that creators who have already built trust, like food in…
Salesforce's acquisition of Informatica positions trusted context as the new currency for enterprise AI, as organizations shift from experiments to production. The combined strategy integrates Tableau, MuleSoft, Data 360…
AI agents perform better when using the web's accessibility tree instead of screenshots, reducing latency from 2-5 seconds to under 500ms and cutting token costs by an order of magnitude, according to a developer's analy…
WILDLABS and Arm announced the winners of the WILDLABS Awards 2026 on July 7, 2026, distributing $360,000 across 16 conservation technology projects. The awards support innovations such as AI-powered bioacoustic monitori…
A product manager recounts how an automated evaluation caught a bug that would have slipped through a 'vibe coded' tool, prompting a historical look at human-in-the-loop versus human-on-the-loop automation. The US Air Fo…
Christof Salis argues that humanity is currently living through an AI utopia but fails to recognize it, urging readers to imagine the most optimistic plausible scenario for AI development from a 2017 perspective.
Researchers at Anthropic have discovered that large language models maintain a privileged set of internal representations, analogous to a global workspace in the human brain, which are available for verbal report and fle…
A mathematician named Norbert Wiener sent a letter in 1949 warning about the dangers of intelligent machines, but his concerns were ignored. The piece traces the history of AI safety concerns from Wiener's cybernetics to…