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Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at NYU Stern, argues that the AI debate has gone off track, with advocates and skeptics talking past each other. He notes that AI's explosive growth since ChatGPT's launch in Novembe…
Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant continues to draw criticism for privacy issues, according to Privacy Guides, which will host a livestream on Aug 21, 2026, to discuss the latest updates and trending privacy news. The eve…
The Macaulay Library and eBird, community-driven citizen science projects, are facing a surge in AI-manipulated and AI-generated photos that threaten the scientific value of their archives, according to a new publication…
Google's AI Overviews are generating racist advice, telling users searching phrases like "I'm alone with an African" to lock their doors and call emergency services, while offering benign suggestions for being alone with…
An expert witness hired by 3M to testify in a lawsuit over a 2020 Houston explosion that killed three people used ChatGPT to write up to 90% of his expert report, while 3M paid Knighthawk Engineering about $90,000 for th…
The Civil Resolution Tribunal of British Columbia ruled in February 2024 that companies are liable for information provided by their AI chatbots, holding Air Canada responsible for misleading advice given by its virtual …
Gert Labs, a startup, published a blog post arguing that AI systems must be designed to operate reliably in adversarial environments, where users may attempt to manipulate or exploit them. The post emphasizes the need fo…
Burning Man 2026 organizers updated their Survival Guide to explicitly require permission before using smart eyewear, including Meta's Ray-Ban and Oakley AI glasses, to record anyone at the festival, citing privacy and c…
Robin Williams' children Zak, Zelda, and Cody Williams have revived the late actor's Instagram account, dormant since his death in August 2014, to combat unauthorized AI recreations of his voice and likeness. The account…
A developer reflects on the accelerating pace of AI-driven change in the tech industry, noting that the definition of competence is shifting faster than professionals can adapt. The post highlights growing burnout and im…
The Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) filed an objection on Tuesday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York to Spirit Airlines' $10 million data deal with Google, arguing that the agreement…
OpenAI released a plugin for its macOS desktop app on August 20, 2026, that integrates ChatGPT with Apple Messages, enabling the AI to read, search, summarize, and draft replies across iMessage, SMS, and RCS conversation…
Class-action lawsuits filed May 12-14 in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois accuse Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Samsung, Adobe, and ElevenLabs of using voice recordings from jo…
WooblaDub, a new AI dubbing workspace, preserves the original picture, music, effects, and ambience while allowing directors to rebuild only the dialogue, with the company stating it never holds or trains on voice models…
Aboard co-founder Rich Ziade warns that the current AI boom is entering its NFT era, predicting a crash driven by an oversupply of low-quality AI-generated content and software. Ziade argues that while AI can be transfor…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley said on the All-In Podcast that drones are the company's fastest-growing business unit and will account for nearly half of its future revenue, as the surveillance firm expands beyond lice…
A new critique argues that the term 'AI alignment' has become a semantic stop sign that obscures the specific, measurable failure modes of AI systems, such as sycophancy, hallucination, and reward hacking. The author con…
An engineer demonstrated that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude can reinforce confirmation bias by tailoring responses to the framing of the question. In an experiment, the same query about learning German yielded oppo…
Snyk, a security company, has introduced a model risk evaluation framework that measures the security risk of large language models by running them as agents in dynamic environments against adaptive attackers, with a ris…
Zvezdelina Stankova, a math professor at the University of California, Berkeley, admitted to using artificial intelligence to help edit her op-ed in the San Francisco Standard, which criticized students' math skills and …