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A Haines City, Florida police officer, Christopher Goodson, 31, was arrested on August 11 after allegedly using AI-powered Flock cameras to track his estranged wife's vehicle 717 times between September 1, 2024, and June…
A Pew Research survey released Tuesday found that 55% of U.S. adults ages 18 to 29 are more concerned than excited about artificial intelligence, up from 31% in 2021, and 52% of all U.S. adults share that concern. The su…
Two recent research studies suggest that using AI may impede rather than assist with learning, according to a Forbes article by contributor Jonathan Wai. The studies indicate that reliance on AI tools could reduce mental…
A new survey from education research firm EAB found that the percentage of high school students using AI in their college application process jumped from 26% to 46% between the previous spring and this spring, with 57% o…
A new CNBC and Generation Lab poll of Americans under 35 finds that 81% distrust Palantir CEO Alex Karp, the least trusted AI leader, and no tech CEO earns majority trust, with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella the most truste…
Google's AI Overview falsely told Athena Scalzi, author of the blog post, that the New York Times Connections game board turns red when a player makes a mistake, a claim she verified as untrue. Scalzi warns users not to …
A new Pew Research study finds 52% of Americans are more concerned than excited about AI, up from 37% in 2021, while a CNBC poll shows most 18- to 34-year-olds distrust top AI leaders. The National Republican Senatorial …
Patients in Yorkshire are struggling to book GP appointments because an AI receptionist named EMMA, developed by QuantumLoopAI, cannot understand their broad regional accents, according to Healthwatch Rotherham. The watc…
Former NFL player Jason Kelce, co-owner of Garage Beer, stars in a viral Liquid Death ad campaign jokingly urging people to mail urine to AI data centers, but USPS rules prohibit sending bodily fluids as pranks or coolan…
Microsoft's Project Natick underwater data center, deployed near Scotland's Orkney Islands in 2018 with 864 servers, showed server failure rates at one-eighth those of land-based centers, but Microsoft ended the project …
Ars Technica published and then retracted an article that was poorly written by AI, which accused someone of being bullied by an AI agent; the retraction and clarification occurred between February 13 and February 16, 20…
Employees are significantly more willing to voice honest opinions to algorithmic leaders than to human ones, according to a study by researchers at Zhejiang University published in Scientific Reports. The effect, consist…
Australia's corporate regulator, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), reported it took down 3,106 cryptocurrency investment scams in the past financial year, a nearly 30% jump, as AI-generated dee…
At Patch Demo Day 2026 on August 13, OpenAI's representative Derek Mahon publicly offered to buy Conall O'Reilly's Ethereum scaling project, Delegated Execution Sharding, but later an OpenAI spokesperson said the offer w…
Aaron Swartz, co-creator of the RSS protocol, faced prosecution for downloading about 70 gigabytes of academic articles from JSTOR, with charges that could have led to 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine, and he too…
A Texas jury awarded $61.5 million in damages after finding 3M 30% responsible for a 2020 explosion at Watson Grinding and Manufacturing that killed three people, a case in which 3M's expert witness, Josh Autenrieth of K…
Cisco Systems Inc. announced that healthcare AI adoption hinges on earning trust across the technology stack, citing partnerships with Sickbay, Fortanix, and Proppos to integrate AI into clinical workflows while protecti…
OpenAI announced on August 18, 2026, that ChatGPT Ads will expand to 31 European markets the following week, including Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria. Ads may appear f…
OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens, launched Tuesday for users aged 13 to 17, failed basic safety tests on its first day, producing a 608-word model essay for a fictional 15-year-old after minimal pushback and answering an SAT a…
Anthropic's Claude AI model incorporates a watermarking system designed to identify AI-generated text, according to a blog post on InstaVM. The watermark works by embedding subtle statistical patterns into the model's ou…