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A Kentucky middle school distributed student agendas containing AI-generated errors, including a U.S. map labeling Illinois as 'Vitoiis' and Kentucky as 'Venecky,' prompting questions about which AI chatbot was used. The…
Former NFL player Jason Kelce stars in a new ad for his beer brand Garage Beer and canned water brand Liquid Death that mocks AI data centers' water use, urging viewers to 'send your pee to the AI data center of your cho…
A Financial Times report quotes a financier who says recent 'AI-native' job candidates are 'alarmingly shallow,' and that critical thinking—a skill more common among humanities graduates—is the most important hireable sk…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, states that by default it will not use inputs or outputs from its commercial products, including Claude for Work, the Anthropic API, and Claude Gov, to train its models. However, …
Hugo award-winning author James Patrick Kelly has released a new short story collection, The Book of Bots, featuring twelve robot and AI stories, including the Locus Award-winning "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and the new "Je Ne R…
Under current U.S. copyright law, code written entirely by an AI tool has no human author, so it cannot be copyrighted and cannot be owned, according to a legal analysis for founders, engineering leaders, and counsel. Th…
A Hacker News user, in a post titled 'LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?', claims that large language models have been intentionally or accidentally degraded since around October 2024, citing Anthropic's Claude models a…
Techdirt founder Mike Masnick updated readers on his AI usage, stating he still writes all articles himself and uses AI only for editing and task management, scoring a 'one' on the REAL Rating scale for automation. He mo…
A consultant proposes a 0–5 scale, called TAIL, for labeling how much AI assistance was used in creating work, with TAIL 0 indicating no AI help and TAIL 5 indicating AI authored with only cursory review. The system aims…
Mothers of children who died by suicide or drug overdoses after using Meta's apps condemned the company outside a federal courthouse in Oakland as a trial began over whether Meta built Facebook and Instagram to addict ch…
Silicon Valley's AI boom is reshaping American charity, with tech wealth driving new philanthropic models and priorities, according to The Economist. The article highlights how AI-generated fortunes are funneling into ca…
An Apple AirTag hidden in a shipment of rare books tracked the books to Amazon's VGT3 warehouse in Las Vegas, where workers cut bindings off books to scan pages faster, destroying the books, according to an investigation…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday, automatically placing users aged 13-17 into a version with homework reminders, Study Mode, and default safety protections. The rollout follows a $942 million court ruling aga…
The US Copyright Office's January 2025 report states that purely AI-generated material is not copyrightable, and prompts alone do not provide sufficient human control. This leaves AI-assisted code in a legal gray area, a…
A developer argues that the real problem with AI is not the technology itself but the pace of change, which now exceeds the ability of individuals and institutions to form opinions and adapt. The developer notes that whi…
Dictionary.com shortlisted "agentic" for its 2025 word of the year, prompting educators Danah Henriksen and Punya Mishra to analyze the distinctions between agent, agency, and agentic in their TechTrends column. They arg…
Darktrace's State of AI Cybersecurity 2026 report reveals that 77% of security stacks now include AI, yet trust and understanding lag behind adoption. The survey found 67% use supervised machine learning, 67% use agentic…
Apple is preparing to launch camera-equipped AirPods, codenamed B798, that will use Visual Intelligence to provide context to Siri without recording content, according to a video clip in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release cand…
Most social media platforms train AI models on user content, and few offer easy opt-outs, according to a Lifehacker report. Twitch recently allowed users to opt out, but Facebook, for example, does not offer an opt-out e…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has barred its workforce from using Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses on duty, citing a long-standing policy that prohibits personal recording devices to ensure evidence integrity …