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Higgsfield, a San Francisco AI video startup, has reached a $500 million revenue run rate, up from $50 million last September, and is cash-flow positive. The company aims to rival AI coding platforms like Cursor and Lova…
Sponsor-generated content on POLITICO explores building trust in Europe during the AI era, produced independently of the editorial department.
NatWest CEO Paul Thwaite admitted that artificial intelligence will replace some banking jobs, joining other bank chiefs like Standard Chartered's Bill Winters and HSBC's Georges Elhedery in acknowledging AI's impact on …
A developer outlines a security model for AI agents that access employee data, emphasizing three principles: separating read and write agents, generating immutable audit records for every query, and scoping inference to …
AI tools amplify the output of software engineers, but without strong engineering skills, they produce low-quality code, or 'slop,' that creates technical debt. To avoid becoming an 'AI slop cannon,' developers must focu…
Honrly, a local-first, self-hostable interview-integrity tool, has released its source code, demonstrating that AI cheating tools like Cluely and Interview Coder are easily detectable. The tool scans running processes in…
OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT's memory to build a profile from past chats, including entire chat history and implicit preferences, but old or irrelevant details can distort future AI answers. The feature, called 'dreaming,…
Meta's Oversight Board will review a case involving an AI-generated video of a female campaigner that falsely depicted her giving health advice, after the company left the post up. The video, which manipulated a news int…
Martin Puchner argues that writers' resistance to AI overlooks the shared foundation of language between humans and machines, urging a reconsideration of the relationship.
A Hacker News user warns that the rapid pace of AI development, termed 'tokenmaxxing,' resembles mass hypomania, with ideas being churned and built at unprecedented speed, potentially leading to societal dissociation.
Chinese sci-fi writer Hao Jingfang revealed that half of her latest book was written with AI, sparking debate over AI-generated literature. Hao stated readers cannot distinguish AI-written parts, while critics argue it u…
A founder claims to write 10,000 lines of code per day using AI, but critics argue this reflects a misguided focus on quantity over quality, producing buggy, unmaintainable code that undermines true engineering craftsman…
A developer discovered that Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, secretly stored 43 MB of conversation data, including code snippets, file paths, and even password queries, in local directories without user notification.…
Arizona's data center industry, the second-largest in the US, is consuming 1.5 GW of power and 385 million gallons of water annually, with projections of tripling electricity use and water consumption surging up to 3.8 b…
Warfare is decimating animal populations worldwide, with conflicts in Ukraine, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Sudan causing mass displacement, habitat destruction, and population crashes. A study of African wildlife found hum…
Anthropic suspended its Fable 5 AI model within three days after U.S. government concerns over security protocols, highlighting a growing rift between U.S. regulatory policies and East Asian market realities. Japan's Sof…
AI-generated code is creating a new form of technical debt called cognitive debt, where developers lose understanding of how and why code was written, according to a former hardware engineer. Google and Meta report high …
The UK Home Office is using two AI tools, Asylum Case Summarisation (ACS) and Asylum Policy Search (APS), both powered by GPT-4o, in asylum decision-making without informing applicants or publishing required impact asses…
A panel discussion published June 18, 2026 concluded that agentic AI is shifting the conversation in financial services from automation toward decision support, forcing credit unions to balance speed with trust and accou…
A new study from the Wharton School at UPenn introduces 'cognitive surrender,' where AI users accept AI-generated answers without independent verification. In experiments with 1,372 participants, 73% accepted wrong answe…