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Software engineer and former U.S. Marine Corps IT specialist reflects on the blurring line between human capability and digital tools, arguing that AI's integration into software development and daily life risks delegati…
A class action lawsuit filed in January in California court alleges that Eightfold AI's hiring software functions as an undisclosed consumer report, ranking applicants without allowing them to see or challenge results, a…
A Harvard field experiment with 288 experienced evaluators assessing 48 submissions to an MIT global social impact innovation challenge found that AI assistance can erode leadership judgment, with evaluators who received…
Apple accidentally leaked footage of its unreleased camera-equipped AirPods in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate, drawing privacy backlash and 4.6 million views on X. The earbuds, similar to AirPods Pro but with tin…
Google's Gemini crossed 1 billion monthly active users on August 11, 2026, while Andon Labs' AI store manager Luna recommended the first known termination of a human employee, documenting 17 no-shows across 23 scheduled …
ThreatDown, the business security arm of Malwarebytes Inc., reported that Kriminal, a popular criminal AI tool, is largely a jailbroken version of xAI's Grok, with paid access starting at $12.99 a month. The service, whi…
A Reddit user asks whether people truly understand their threat model, sparking a discussion about AI-generated content and personal cybersecurity awareness. The user admits to struggling with identifying AI-generated te…
A new essay in The New York Times warns that students' reliance on AI for writing is eroding their ability to think, citing cognitive psychologist Ronald T. Kellogg, who said 'Writing is a technology for thinking.' An MI…
An investigation by 404 Media placed an AirTag in a shipment of rare books and tracked it to an Amazon facility where employees confirmed that books are stripped of their bindings and scanned for AI training data without…
Fei-Fei Li, Stanford professor and co-founder of World Labs, urged technologists at the Ai4 2026 conference in Las Vegas to stop scaring people and overpromising about AI, warning that extreme messaging could distort pub…
Tech layoffs in 2026 have surpassed 205,832, exceeding the 2025 total of 122,606 with four months remaining, according to Layoffs.fyi. By spring 2026, 40% of layoff announcements cited AI automation as the reason, with O…
OpenAI will expand ChatGPT Ads to 31 European markets, including the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Austria, during the week of August 24, 2026, marking its largest advertising e…
A July 2026 survey by ResumeTemplates of 1,000 managers at US companies with more than 500 employees found that 59% use AI in layoff decisions, and 43% of those managers allowed AI to finalize a layoff without human revi…
College students who copy answers from artificial intelligence tools without verifying the information experience declines in their ability to learn independently, according to a study by Hui Zhao and Huijuan Gu at Zhouk…
Nvidia and Wall Street firms including Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR are working to raise $500 billion to turn compute into an investable asset class, according to CEO Jensen Huang, wh…
Fei-Fei Li, an AI pioneer and founder of World Labs, warned that growing public opposition to artificial intelligence in the US could have global consequences, urging technologists to better communicate AI's benefits. Li…
Robin Williams' children Zak, Zelda, and Cody Williams have reactivated his dormant Instagram account to serve as an official archive and combat what they call 'rampant AI abuse' of his voice and likeness. The account, i…
Dr. TJ Jiang, a Forbes Councils member, argues that AI model safety is a myth and that organizations must implement an AI trust layer to manage the risks introduced by agentic AI, which shifts an organization's risk prof…
In Q1 2026, at least 75 US data center projects valued at around $130 billion faced significant local opposition, more than double the $64 billion delayed or canceled in all of 2025, according to a report from Crypto Bri…
A bond market sell-off is being driven by inflation, government deficits, and a wave of new debt from tech companies, including those focused on AI infrastructure. Hyperscaler borrowing for AI is competing with governmen…