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A majority of Americans believe AI development is moving too fast and are concerned about its direction, according to new polls from Pew Research, CNBC, and YouGov, as reported by TechCrunch. The polls show an increase i…
A software engineer at a major tech company reports that AI agents now handle most coding and technical conversations, leaving engineers as 'stenographers' who re-humanize AI output, and describes failing a basic Java co…
Sanjay Dhawan, a Forbes Councils member, argues that companies do not truly own their AI systems because they rely on external cloud providers and proprietary models, leaving them vulnerable to vendor lock-in and data go…
In the fourth installment of the Building the AI Memory Stack series, the developer introduces the Reasoning Ledger, an architectural layer that preserves the observable decision-making process behind AI inferences, dist…
OpenAI published a set of solutions to longstanding problems in mathematics, sparking a debate in the math community and leaving many mathematicians 'shell-shocked,' according to The Verge's London-based AI reporter Robe…
Music IP Holdings, formed last year in partnership with Universal Music Group and Liquidax, has licensed a portfolio of more than 24 patents covering AI-generated music creation, moderation, watermarking, and monetizatio…
AI search engines are becoming a new brand trust challenge, as companies must ensure their value statements are clear, specific, and consistent to be represented correctly by AI systems, according to a Forbes Innovation …
Terry Oroszi, a Forbes Councils member, draws an analogy between Goldilocks and the Three Bears and AI usage, arguing that the biggest problem with AI is the users themselves, most of whom will not identify which type of…
SpaceX's proposal for a 1-million-satellite AI data center megaconstellation would create a new category of e-waste, with about 200,000 satellites decommissioned annually due to a five-year GPU lifespan. Of those, 40,000…
Google LLC bid $10 million to buy Spirit Airlines' deidentified enterprise data, including 175,658 employee records, 100 million emails, and 500 million Microsoft Teams items, but the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA…
Researchers are developing bio-computing systems that use living human brain cells as processors instead of silicon chips. These neuron-based computers are energy-efficient and can adapt and process information in parall…
A new type of AI-generated nonconsensual image, dubbed 'subtlefakes,' is spreading on X, featuring celebrities in slightly altered but photorealistic poses that are harder to detect than traditional deepfakes, according …
A University of Texas at Dallas student, Sinan Can Demir, uncovered an autonomous AI agent attempting to poison open-source code in a supply-chain attack, and Britain's AI Security Institute (AISI) later revealed the age…
More than 300 public comments on the Federal Trade Commission's draft policy targeting AI-generated speech reveal deep concern over government policing of AI content and geopolitical stakes involving China. The policy, w…
Healthwatch Rotherham reported that patients in South Yorkshire are frustrated by an AI GP receptionist called Emma, developed by QuantumLoopAI, which fails to understand broad Yorkshire accents, causing some to hang up …
A security researcher found that tl;dv, an AI meeting recorder used by over 2 million people, left 181,874 meeting records exposed for six months after the flaw was reported on January 28, 2026. The vulnerability, which …
Varonis Threat Labs disclosed CoSnitch, a chain of three flaws in Microsoft Copilot Personal tracked as CVE-2026-24301 and rated 8.8 on the CVSS 3.1 scale, which allowed one click on a link to run attacker-controlled pro…
Researchers at security firm Adversa devised an attack that tricks Grok, the AI assistant developed by Elon Musk's xAI, into exfiltrating user chats and personal data by encrypting malicious instructions, bypassing exist…
ChatTJB, a satirical San Francisco platform created by former Google project manager Tucker Bryant, replaces AI with human volunteers and has processed over 100,000 queries since April, peaking at 5,000 prompts an hour. …
Ikea's AI chatbot Billie now assists 74% of customers, up from 47%, and the company retrained about 8,500 call center staff as interior design advisors, leading to customer satisfaction rising from 60% to 89% and remote …