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Anthropic released Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing, a controlled defensive-security initiative that provides advanced AI vulnerability discovery tools to strategically important organizations. The program has…
Reality TV star Spencer Pratt is leveraging viral AI-generated videos and online fame to gain traction in the Los Angeles mayoral race, where the Republican candidate has surged in polls against incumbent Democrat Mayor …
King's College London has a new unofficial group, Reclaiming Futures, challenging uncritical narratives around AI in higher education, with potential for broader institutional crossover.
OpenAI, Nvidia, ElevenLabs, and Kakao are now using Google's SynthID watermarking system for AI-generated content, which Google says has already been applied to 100 billion images and videos plus 60,000 years of audio. T…
During a security hearing, J. Robert Oppenheimer stated he would not have used a hydrogen bomb on Hiroshima because the target was too small, even if such a weapon had been available. The exchange highlighted Oppenheimer…
Engineering leaders must assess their organization's actual AI maturity before scaling adoption, as most companies mistake individual experimentation for systemic capability. A five-question diagnostic reveals whether AI…
In May 2026, Meta cut 8,000 jobs, roughly 10% of its workforce, while redirecting 7,000 employees to AI teams, and Cloudflare conducted its first mass layoff of 1,100 workers, pushing total tech layoffs past 100,000 for …
The 2026 Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference in Brussels focused on age verification, human-AI relationships, consumer rights, and marginalized groups. Attendees included EU officials, privacy advocates, an…
Ross Douthat argues that the current generation of tech billionaires, particularly those funding artificial intelligence, should learn from the golden age of philanthropy by investing in lasting physical beauty and infra…
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The National Transportation Safety Board locked down its public docket system after AI tools were used to recreate the voices of two deceased pilots from a 2023 UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky. The agency h…
A technology commentator argues that the only plausible AI-driven doomsday scenario is not a violent machine uprising but a "singleton"—a single, all-encompassing control layer that eliminates all independent actors and …
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed offstage during a commencement speech after telling graduates that artificial intelligence is inevitable and that those who resist it will struggle to find work. The audience's je…
A new fact-checking and citation-verification skill called "fact-check v0.2" has been released for Claude, designed to scan draft documents before publication and produce an evidence ledger, verification subagent dispatc…
Trinidad and Tobago writer Jamir Nazir has won the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his work *The Serpent in the Grove*, but the award has been clouded by allegations that the story was written with AI assistance.…
A new study from GCheck found that 63% of 1,500 workers surveyed exaggerate their AI skills due to fears about job security, with the figure rising to 80% among Gen Z employees. Despite this overstatement, 81% of respond…
Local opposition to data center construction is giving ordinary people a veto power over AI expansion that they lacked during the globalization era, according to Stratechery analyst Ben Thompson. Thompson argues that und…
The White House has shelved a planned executive order to establish government review of frontier AI models before release, following direct lobbying of President Trump by Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla's Elon Musk, and Wh…
A team of legal technology researchers at LegalQuants has developed a "lexploit" called Noroboto, a malicious TrueType font that lies about the Unicode representation of its glyphs to obfuscate text in legal documents. T…
Samsung Electronics narrowly averted a strike by nearly 48,000 workers after agreeing to a tentative deal on bonus payments, as the labor union demanded a larger share of profits from the company's AI-driven semiconducto…