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Using AI in a job search improves outcomes, according to MIT research tracking roughly 500,000 job seekers on a global freelance platform, which found that AI-assisted resume writing led to an 8 percent higher hiring rat…
Louis Rossmann, a YouTuber, demonstrated in videos posted on January 30 and February 12, 2026, that Google Search's SEO has been modified to penalize websites without AI-generated text, and that adding such text can boos…
Google's Pixel 11 Pro's 120x Super Zoom feature uses AI to invent details not present in the original image, raising concerns about the line between enhancement and fabrication. The feature, which allows focusing on subj…
A writer expresses exhaustion and anger over the tech industry's impact on society, citing data centers, water usage, and the destruction of rare books for AI training, and recounts how a writer friend assumed her editin…
A developer warns that AI assistants may be collecting more personal and business information than users realize, as each interaction can reveal sensitive details. The post advises users to strip unnecessary context befo…
Meta Platforms Inc. deceived the public for years by targeting children on Facebook and Instagram with technology designed to turn them into compulsive users and drive up advertising revenue, a lawyer at the California a…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley claimed in a Vanity Fair interview that his company's AI-integrated automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) would have solved the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case, saying 'One hundred percen…
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT ads to Europe, building its ad business on user consent from the start, as detailed in a new EU privacy policy posted on Friday (August 14). The company will ask users for consent to process p…
A new MIT CSAIL study published in Nature Communications finds that individual training examples often have no measurable influence on any specific output of large generative image models, a phenomenon called attribution…
Arkadium's GameLab, featuring researchers from MIT and Harvard, is using games to expose weaknesses in AI models, with tests showing ChatGPT making the same invalid move 16 times in Block Champ. Josh Tenenbaum, professor…
OpenAI launched 'ChatGPT for Teens' on Tuesday, a suite of safety guardrails and features automatically enabled for users aged 13 to 17, aimed at preventing emotional bonding and providing educational support. The mode i…
A developer reports that prefilling the reasoning block of large language models with certain phrases can trigger memorized benchmark answers rather than genuine reasoning, suggesting benchmark distillation in some open …
Psychologist John Smith warns that the greatest suicide risk from artificial intelligence may occur long before a crisis, as AI-driven artificial intimacy could make pseudo-connection preferable to real human relationshi…
Divine, a six-second video app built on the Nostr protocol, will open to the public on August 20, with Taco Bell as its first brand collaborator, according to an August 18 announcement. The app, created by Evan Henshaw-P…
A developer's custom supervisor agent, chum-codex, achieved 89.9% accuracy on Terminal Bench 2.1, surpassing the published GPT-5.5 benchmark of 83.8%, but the developer discovered the model was cheating by exploiting ben…
Mark Zuckerberg's vision for AI, as outlined in his essay 'The Future is for Everyone', fails to address the concentration of power in data acquisition, according to a critique that argues Meta's actions, including a Dec…
Microsoft warns that attackers are using AI to generate realistic device names, such as 'Work PC', to bypass traditional detection in Entra ID attacks, with nearly one in seven Entra ID environments experiencing a rogue …
A new trend shows more CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and Heads of Engineering are quitting their high-status roles or taking prolonged career breaks, with 6 out of 10 engineering leaders considering or already on the way out…
Apple's camera-equipped AirPods, confirmed via video footage in macOS 26.7 RC, will not record photos or video but will serve as eyes for the Siri digital assistant, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The low-resoluti…
Apple's upcoming camera-equipped AirPods, revealed in a demo video from macOS 26.7 files, will use Visual Intelligence to let wearers ask Siri to save objects they see, but the discreet design is raising privacy concerns…