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Google is paying select Android app developers for access to their Play Store code, according to a 404 Media report based on an email sent to a developer with millions of downloads. The program, described as a "confident…
Instagram has fixed a security flaw that allowed hackers to take over user accounts by tricking Meta's AI-powered support chatbot into resetting passwords. The attack, which compromised accounts including the Obama-era W…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced in April plans to create a city-owned grocery store in East Harlem, Manhattan, the first of five such stores planned for each borough. The stores will feature union labor, low…
A former Google employee's LinkedIn post offering career guidance to laid-off tech workers resulted in 27 inbound calls within 24 hours, revealing that many talented professionals outside the AI safety ecosystem lack bas…
Google has secretly offered to pay Android app developers for access to their codebases to train its AI coding tools, 404 Media reported. The company emailed select Play Store developers about a "confidential content off…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is funding a "DOGE-bros" initiative that aims to profit from Medicare hospice care by using AI to reduce care for dying patients, framing undertreatment as efficiency. The strategy relies on en…
Meta will allow employees to pause its AI training tracking program for up to 30 minutes to handle personal matters, according to a company memo reported by The Information. The concession follows employee protests over …
Labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards dismissed fears that artificial intelligence will create a permanently unemployed class of Americans, arguing the U.S. workforce is too resilient to be written off. She warned, howeve…
The economic principle of Jevons Paradox explains why falling AI costs are increasing demand for human labor rather than eliminating jobs. As AI model prices dropped roughly 99% between 2020 and 2024, businesses expanded…
AI agents are introducing new security risks in software development by autonomously planning, building, and shipping code, shifting the security focus from artifact inspection to trusting the agent system itself. Risk e…
A compliance gap emerges when an AI agent platform's long-term memory store is omitted from the data inventory, causing a deletion saga to succeed against an outdated list of storage systems rather than the actual system…
A RAG agent's citation verification layer that checks only URL reachability fails audits when cited web pages change after the quote was extracted, leaving teams unable to prove the agent didn't fabricate the quote. A 20…
A security-conscious customer discovered their system prompt, refusal policy, and retrieval pipeline structure in an audit export due to a debug log field named `llm.request.system` being included in a customer-visible a…
A data residency audit that verified all outbound requests terminated in Frankfurt missed that the provider's prompt cache, a separate system governed by different SLAs, stored prefixes in us-east-1. The cache's global p…
Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. adolescents and young adults now use AI chatbots for mental health advice, a 40% increase over the past year, according to a new RAND study published in JAMA Pediatrics. The study found that 19.2% of y…
A developer launched HNSansAI, a version of Hacker News that filters out AI-related content by scanning articles for AI terms using the official Hacker News API, aiming to provide a non-AI-focused news experience.
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, proposing the creation of a government-owned investment fund that would capture profits from artificial intelligence development. The legislati…
A 53-year East Bay resident is calling on officials to reject plans to convert the closed Dublin federal women’s prison into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility. The resident argues that ICE’s curre…
New Jersey police are increasing security measures as the state prepares to host the FIFA World Cup final, with law enforcement monitoring stadiums, hotels, and training centers from a centralized command center. The hei…
A qualitative study by Kim et al., published as a JMIR preprint, found that South Korean psychiatrists encounter generative AI through patient-facing chatbots, self-help tools, and clinician workflow support. The clinici…