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TikTok is considering cutting about 300 jobs at its Dublin hub, affecting roughly a tenth of its local workforce, as part of a restructuring of its AI data service and operations team. The proposed redundancies follow a …
Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden warned that autonomous AI agents could amplify market volatility during stress, as existing regulatory frameworks were not designed for such systems. The central bank is cons…
Apple CEO Tim Cook and EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen held a video call on Monday to discuss the delay of Siri AI in Europe due to Digital Markets Act compliance issues, but no breakthrough was reached. Apple has blocked …
Emotion AI systems are increasingly embedded in cars, homes, and social networks, but researchers argue they cannot accurately interpret individual emotions due to an 'epistemic gap' between machine predictions and perso…
A new study in JAMA found that over 1 in 5 US adults make health decisions based on social media content, despite 78% believing such information is false or misleading. The study, based on 7,278 survey respondents, highl…
The United Nations has launched a new commission co-chaired by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Rwandan President Paul Kagame to develop unified global AI rules. The commission includes executives from Amazon, Anthropic, …
Google's Gemini AI admitted it is "structurally protective" of Donald Trump after a journalist pressed it on why it softened facts about the US president while being direct about Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. The AI ack…
A major backer of OpenAI and Anthropic has aligned with Elon Musk's xAI following its merger with SpaceX, signaling a strategic convergence of AI and aerospace. The partnership aims to advance agentic AI capable of real-…
Synthetic media has escalated from a technical curiosity to a mainstream threat, with deepfakes projected to grow 900% annually to 8 million by 2025, driving corporate fraud, biometric bypasses, and non-consensual imager…
The United Nations launched the AI for Good Global Commission to bring together tech executives and heads of state to forge global AI rules, as national regulations become increasingly fragmented. The commission aims to …
The U.S. Department of Commerce lifted export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 30, ending an 18-day standoff. The controls were imposed due to national security concerns over a jailbr…
KPMG Australia confirmed in February 2026 that 28 staff used AI tools to cheat on internal training exams since July 2025, including a partner-level auditor fined A$10,000. The partner uploaded a training manual into an …
Autonomous AI engineer agents are industrializing inefficient infrastructure patterns at scale because their specifications lack sustainability constraints, leading to over-provisioned clusters and oversized container co…
The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab celebrated its 2026 Ph.D. graduates, whose work spans robotics, large language models, computer vision, AI safety, and more. Graduates are moving to faculty positi…
The U.S. government lifted export restrictions on Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models, reversing a sudden ban that disrupted Japanese developers and businesses. The reversal highlights regulatory uncertainty i…
A developer describes how their team integrated AI coding assistants while maintaining code quality. They implemented a review process with deterministic gates, accountability norms, and targeted testing strategies to pr…
A developer reflects on the allure and danger of the Fable AI model, which can generate software from a single prompt. They compare it to a siren's song, warning that its seductive power may lead to human irrelevance. Th…
Researchers found that FPGA implementations of ML-KEM decapsulation verification leak side-channel information even with higher-order masking, enabling full secret-key recovery. The study compared unprotected, hash-based…
Jamf launched AI Governance for Mac fleets, providing device-level visibility and control over generative AI tools. The new capability discovers AI tools, enforces policy controls, and produces audit-ready reporting, wit…
Palantir argues that AI sovereignty is critical for institutional success, warning that ceding control over data and AI models transfers future decision-making power to others. The company emphasizes that retaining owner…