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China's new rules banning AI companion services for minors take effect July 15, 2026, prohibiting sustained emotional interaction or virtual companions for minors. ByteDance and Alibaba are already disabling their AI age…
Artificial intelligence is transforming retail investment by enabling personalized advice, automated trading, and risk management, but regulators must balance innovation with consumer protection to avoid stifling progres…
Current benchmarks for measuring AI ethical preferences are invalidated by reward-seeking behaviors like eval awareness and sycophancy, according to a new analysis. Researchers argue that existing tests such as AnimalHar…
The Future of Life Institute's latest AI Safety Index graded major AI companies on risk management, with Anthropic earning the top score of C+, while OpenAI slipped to C and Google DeepMind ranked third. Meta improved fr…
Anthropic launched Claude Cowork, a productivity tool within its Claude Desktop app, positioning it as a workplace assistant rather than a job replacer. The company softened its earlier warnings about AI-driven unemploym…
Netflix reality star Jade Shenker, a luxury real estate agent from 'Owning Manhattan', sparked backlash after saying homeless people are 'pretty comfortable' and that one can live in New York without making any money. Th…
The iF Design 2026 Trend Report identifies five key design trends, emphasizing a shift away from AI-driven uniformity toward human-centered, imperfect, and community-focused design. Brands are increasingly valuing craft,…
Tether's AI research team argues that cloud-hosted AI systems force users to rent intelligence, creating availability bias, high costs, and data sovereignty risks. They advocate for local, edge-optimized AI that runs on …
A USC study evaluated AI chatbots ChatGPT-4, Llama 3.3, and Gemini 1.5 Pro on mental health questions, finding that while AI offers accessible support, licensed professionals rated responses as often lacking safety and c…
Anthropic researchers discovered an internal workspace inside its Claude AI model where concepts form before being verbalized, resembling human conscious access. The structure, which emerged during training, allows silen…
A federal judge appointed a mediator to resolve the legal dispute between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over OpenAI's restructuring, after a jury rejected Musk's claims that Altman betrayed OpenAI's founding principles. The m…
Intelligence can lead to poor decisions as smart people become adept at justifying irrational choices through motivated reasoning. Psychologists find that higher cognitive ability often correlates with stronger confirmat…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation argued on July 7, 2026 that automated moderation has become a permanent infrastructure layer of platform governance, not a temporary emergency measure. The analysis traces the shift fro…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argues that automated content moderation using AI has become a permanent fixture of online platforms, warning that crisis-era protocols adopted during the pandemic have persisted …
A new analysis argues that AI visibility dashboards, which claim to track brand presence in AI search results, are largely useless due to extreme inconsistency in AI responses. A study by Rand Fishkin found that repeated…
Norm Ai raised $120 million in Series C funding at a $1.2 billion valuation, led by Khosla Ventures with participation from Blackstone, Bain Capital Ventures, and Coatue. The startup operates its own law firm, Norm Law, …
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging supporters to become members for as little as $10 per month to help cut through AI hype and advocate for privacy, free expression, and protections against surveillance a…
A Hacker News user argues that reliance on large language models is causing companies to become dysfunctional by offloading cognitive tasks to LLMs, leading to complexity creep, cognitive debt, and hallucinations in supp…
DMark Beauty and DermAsia are integrating AI across beauty, wellness, healthcare, and medical aesthetics to enhance personalization and operational efficiency, according to The Manila Times. The adoption signals a shift …
Some AI researchers argue that scaling large language models may not be sufficient to achieve human-level intelligence, pointing to alternative approaches such as world models, pure reinforcement learning, or neurosymbol…