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A CNBC and SurveyMonkey Q3 2026 AI and Jobs Survey of 1,686 U.S. students and workers found that 42% favor allowing junior employees to use AI with clear guidelines and limitations, while 35% favor prohibiting it entirel…
GPU cloud provider developer relations staff report that AI teams are repeating cloud-cost mistakes, with GPU spending treated as a bold bet rather than an operating cost, leading to waste. One team reserved a cluster fo…
Flock Safety, a surveillance company valued at $8.4 billion, has installed 120,000 AI-powered license plate cameras across every US state except Alaska, used by 7,000 law enforcement agencies (40% of US police department…
The Wall Street Journal reports that employees are finding ways to circumvent AI-powered workplace surveillance tools that track their productivity, with some workers using tactics like moving a mouse jiggler or manually…
California lawmakers are considering a bill to regulate AI-driven workplace decisions after an AI system fired a San Francisco store employee, a case that has spotlighted the growing use of 'robobosses' in hiring and fir…
Google's Gemini AI assistant is now rolling out in Chrome for Android users in the US, but users can remove it by pressing and holding the Gemini icon in the browser and selecting 'Edit shortcut' to replace it with alter…
Phillip Linstrum, drawing on over a decade in regulated healthcare quality systems, built Project Shadow, an AI governance architecture that separates observation, classification, authority, execution, and review to prev…
Open source is an ownership model, not a moral choice, argues a new essay, emphasizing that controlling the orchestration layer for AI models is critical to prevent vendor lock-in. The piece notes that models are transie…
Crypto, AI and online betting firms have driven U.S. corporate spending on the 2026 midterm elections to a record $517 million in the 15 months through the first quarter, surpassing the $461 million spent in the entire 2…
On August 10, Mark Zuckerberg published a letter titled "The Future for Everyone," advocating for wider distribution of AI access, but six global AI observers interviewed by Rest of World challenged his vision, arguing t…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on August 18, a version with stronger safety protections and parental controls, but older adults are also heavy users: Pew Research Center found 23% of adults 65 and up use ChatGPT, up f…
Axios reports that accusations of using generative AI have become a reputational liability in the entertainment industry, with creators like Hank Green and Jerry Falade facing public backlash and career consequences over…
The EU AI Act, formally Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, introduces a risk-based regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, with bans on unacceptable-risk AI, strict requirements for high-risk systems, and transparency …
Algorithmically designed foods may optimize cost, taste, shelf life, or emissions while neglecting long-term health and cultural acceptability, according to a research opportunity outlined in Kenya. The challenge is crea…
A fraud model's decision can be fully explainable yet still wrong because the underlying data pipeline fails to capture document provenance, valuation timing, and feature timestamp policies, according to an analysis of i…
A new working paper by John Newman at the University of Memphis School of Law and Andres Sawicki at the Miami School of Law finds that generative AI firms are unilaterally setting legal frameworks through their terms and…
A new study by John M. Newman of the University of Memphis and Andres Sawicki of the University of Miami, the first empirical examination at scale of generative AI terms and conditions, finds that broad royalty-free lice…
In 2025, Americans age 60 and older reported $7.7 billion in losses to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, with more than 201,000 complaints filed, and a data removal service analysis found that 72% of elder fraud…
Terence Tao, a mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles, warns that AI could trigger mathematics' biggest crisis since Gödel, comparable to the foundational upheaval around 1900. He argues that a proof …
A leaked repository of Flock Safety's 'Raven' predictive policing module reveals that the company's AI builds movement profiles from 4,000+ cameras using features like income quartile and known-associate proximity, train…