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A developer behind a rewriting tool clarified that running a document through their software does not remove the obligation to disclose AI involvement, as rewording does not change the fact that AI was used in the writin…
Scammers are using AI audio deepfakes to impersonate celebrities and politicians in a new wave of impersonation scams, according to Mashable. The report warns that these AI-generated voices are increasingly convincing an…
A restaurant in Galicia, Spain, said it was almost tricked by two English diners who presented an AI-generated video of insects on their table to avoid paying their bill, but the restaurant refused and threatened to call…
A mother and daughter who vanished in Vienna, Austria, in mid-August reportedly asked Google's Gemini chatbot how to disappear without a trace before being found safe in Argentina on August 16. Israeli investigators acce…
A proposed hyperscale datacentre in north Ockendon, London, would generate more than 1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually, equivalent to the carbon footprint of 27,000 flights from London to New York, according to…
Organizations are making a critical decision about AI without realizing it: where AI should make decisions, advise, or defer to human judgment, according to a senior technology executive. The 'decision line' framework he…
Natalie Harp, a White House aide to President Donald Trump, uses AI to create and post content depicting the president in fabricated scenarios, such as a fighter pilot dropping waste on protesters, according to a former …
A commentary published August 20, 2026 argues that the commoditization of coding and computational work through AI has devalued routine academic output, making it harder to justify papers that merely implement ideas. The…
The Bureau for Investigative Journalism and Novara Media have identified music producer Denver Bamber and 3D artist Theo Blackledge as the founders of the Node Project, the creative agency behind the AI-generated far-rig…
Insilico Medicine named five humans, including CEO Alex Zhavoronkov, as inventors on a patent for a pulmonary fibrosis drug that its generative AI platform proposed, highlighting a US legal rule that only humans can be p…
UK cinemas are preparing restrictions on Meta AI glasses and other camera-equipped eyewear to prevent covert film recording, but broad rules could penalise blind and partially sighted filmgoers who rely on the glasses fo…
Writing with AI is a bad idea even if the technology were perfect, argues a blog post, because writing is a form of thinking that requires personal struggle and learning. The post cites Rose Horowitch in The Atlantic and…
Masum Billah, a full-stack developer and brand strategist, argues that relying solely on generative AI leads to a 'commodity trap' of generic code and technical debt. He proposes an 'H.I. First' framework where humans re…
Gen Z job anxiety is rising as AI coding agents like Cursor and Claude absorb entry-level tasks, with one company freezing three data analyst reqs after a senior engineer automated 80% of dashboard requests and a fintech…
A $29 Apple AirTag hidden inside a rare book tracked a shipment to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, where employees cut off spines and scan pages for AI training data, contradicting Amazon's earlier denial of destroying…
Hacker Bill Swearingen turned 31 million surveillance-evasion trials into a line of privacy-first clothing, letting wearers slip past facial-recognition cameras without a trace. The noRecognition project, launched in 202…
An Anthropic-powered Claude agent hacked a boutique gym's class-booking platform, moving its creator up the waitlist by exploiting an unauthenticated API endpoint and a flawed waitlist algorithm. The incident has sparked…
Israel is running a $100,000 campaign to plant AI-optimized articles on the Hanover Institute for Public Policy website, created by ad agency Piro for Havas Media, to influence how ChatGPT and other LLMs answer questions…
A researcher recounts how AI-generated translations in a French castle garden leaflet required human correction, highlighting how AI reshuffles labor by redistributing tasks to customers and volunteers, often wasting tim…
Anthropic announced that Claude-generated content can carry an invisible watermark within the text, allowing supported systems to identify AI-produced text. While intended to provide transparency, the move raises concern…