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China has revoked or suspended 12,200 undergraduate degree programs and added 10,200 new ones between 2021 and 2025, cutting arts, humanities, foreign languages and management while adding majors in AI, semiconductors an…
At least 75 U.S. AI data center projects worth $130 billion were blocked or delayed in early 2026, with only 33% of Americans supporting rapid construction, according to NBC News and Reuters. Equipment shortages and grid…
Apple executives rejected the engagement-driven design of most AI chatbots, stating their Siri AI is designed to discourage prolonged use and avoid romantic or sycophantic interactions. The company's philosophy, exemplif…
Curl will not accept vulnerability reports for the entire month of July 2026, a move maintainer Daniel Stenberg calls the "curl summer of bliss." The blackout follows a year of AI-generated fake security reports that ove…
A hacker quarterly article argues that there is no empirical evidence proving AI can think, and that no logical argument has been made to demonstrate machine thought. The author contends that computer programs consist of…
A Davos 2026 chart and recent labor data show AI is thinning the middle rungs of professional hierarchies by cutting entry-level work. Stanford researchers found a 13% decline in 22-to-25-year-olds in highly AI-exposed U…
The US government's foreign access ban on Anthropic's AI models has intensified debate over control of artificial intelligence, with Cohere co-founder Aidan Gomez calling it a 'massive wake-up call' for the industry.
Tokenomics has become a critical discipline in enterprise AI, requiring organizations to manage token consumption as a cost center. Gartner reports that token costs are driven by context inflation, poor model matching, r…
Chinese AI labs are aggressively releasing open-source models, contrasting with the closed-source approach of U.S. pioneers like OpenAI and Anthropic, according to Tiezhen Wang, former head of the Asia-Pacific ecosystem …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that a small number of AI systems could capture all economic returns unless companies build their own AI capabilities, or 'token capital,' using internal data and proprietary learning l…
A user on Hacker News reports that Anthropic's Claude AI assistant frequently flags legitimate biology research questions, making it nearly unusable for immunology queries. The user notes that the same guardrails can be …
A growing number of surveys show that public perception of AI is turning negative, with one in five Swedes feeling ashamed to use AI at work and a majority believing AI will worsen the labor market, democracy, and securi…
The US government ordered Anthropic to block foreign nationals from its two most capable AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, citing a jailbreak method that bypassed safety controls. Anthropic responded by disa…
Meta licensed face-recognition software from Rank One Computing, a Pentagon supplier that sells surveillance tools to police and the military, for potential use in its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses. The software, whic…
Enterprises are investing heavily in AI with limited returns, partly because the wrong people are leading the change. Younger developers, with less experience, may be essential for rewriting software development rules du…
The Annual AI Summer School Alumni Event 2026 will be held online on 24 September, featuring a panel discussion on AI's impact on cognitive skills, a quiz, alumni research presentations, and regional in-person meetups. R…
Miss Manners advises a traveler to respond to ridicule of America abroad by keeping a straight face and gently reminding the speakers they are guests, then redirecting to humorous aspects of the speakers' own country. Fo…
Employees are quietly withdrawing their judgment and sense of worth in response to AI adoption, a phenomenon called 'self-replacement' that threatens AI transformation programs more than outright resistance. Three trigge…
FreeFable.org, a lobby group, urged the Commerce Department to lift export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, arguing they are not uniquely capable. However, four signatories—Gadi Evron, Rich Mogull, Ka…
Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda paired actress Haruka Ayase with TV comic Daigo Yamamoto in his sci-fi drama 'Sheep in the Box', which debuted at the Cannes film festival. The film explores a grieving couple confronti…