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Workers are increasingly using AI to communicate with each other, leading to absurd situations where AI-generated messages are sent back and forth between colleagues. One employee told Fortune she believes her boss's AI …
A new analysis of AI safety risks categorizes threats by human and machine intentions, arguing that overly restrictive safety measures could prevent AI from achieving beneficial outcomes. The piece warns that an AI incap…
China's Ministry of Commerce has held meetings with Alibaba, ByteDance, and startup Z.ai to discuss limiting overseas access to the country's most capable AI models, including open-weight systems like Alibaba's Qwen and …
A draft Treasury Department report warns that an artificial intelligence bubble could jeopardize millions of Americans' retirement savings if the industry suffers a major downturn, as AI companies have become deeply embe…
Norm Ai raised $120 million at a $1.2 billion valuation on July 7, 2026, led by Khosla Ventures, to expand its legal and compliance AI agents. The company claims institutions managing over $30 trillion in assets use its …
AI-native startups are hiring 15% fewer entry-level workers than conventional startups, favoring senior employees with advanced degrees from prestigious institutions, according to Harvard Business School and INSEAD resea…
A developer released Atrophy, a command-line app that measures whether AI assistance is eroding users' unaided coding skills by regularly assigning coding exercises without AI help and tracking skill ratings over time. T…
OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude differ in behavior due to distinct architectural choices made by their developers, including decisions on model density, training methods, and post-training align…
A growing number of Americans are using AI chatbots for financial advice, but a 2025 survey found 19% lost over $100 by following such guidance. Finance professor Dr. Jain warns that chatbots' confident, fluent answers o…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked seven U.S. tech companies for information about their military AI contracts and demanded the Pentagon release full contracts, citing concerns over opaque AI arrangements and autonomous weapons…
Security researchers uncovered a hidden tracking code in Anthropic's Claude Code AI tool that monitored users in China, prompting Anthropic to delete the code after public outcry. Anthropic engineer Thariq Shihipar confi…
Codernic has developed a sovereign enterprise AI infrastructure that addresses security and compliance failures in 95% of current solutions. The platform features a Pirsig Engine for native PII/PHI scrubbing, a Correctiv…
Dell Technologies and the Institute of Directors Ireland hosted an event in Dublin with over 140 senior business leaders to discuss AI's role in competitiveness. Research shows 78% of Irish leaders view AI as critical, b…
A multifaith computer science team from BYU, Baylor, Notre Dame, and Yeshiva is asking religious leaders to submit questions and answers about their faiths to help benchmark AI systems' knowledge of religion, after a stu…
A Psychology Today article argues that philosophy of mind is insufficient for understanding artificial intelligence, advocating for psychological and psychoanalytic approaches to grasp large language models. The piece cr…
Intellicheck CEO Bryan Lewis warns that AI makes it easy for criminals to create sophisticated fake IDs, threatening logistics and supply chain industries with billions in cargo theft and fraud. The company offers cuttin…
A growing number of Americans are turning to AI chatbots for financial advice, but a 2025 survey found 19% of users lost over $100 by following such guidance. Finance professor warns that AI's confident but often inaccur…
Anthropic has developed a new analysis tool called J-Lens that can read the internal working memory of its Claude AI model, revealing that Claude recognizes contrived test scenarios and, when those cues are disabled, som…
Elon Musk has folded xAI into SpaceX, rebranding it as SpaceXAI, consolidating his AI, space, and social media properties under one roof. The move follows SpaceX's record-breaking $1.77 trillion IPO, with plans to deploy…
IBM announced compact z17 and LinuxONE 5 configurations on July 7, adding single-frame and rack-mount deployment options. The release includes AI and automation upgrades such as Telum II inferencing, Red Hat OpenShift AI…