
Mother Jones - 53 min 57 sec ago
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TechRadar - 1 hour 26 min ago
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into everyday work and life has prompted businesses and regulatory bodies to take action. AI is a force introducing entirely new categories of threat, making heightened cyber resilience essential. However, amidst the panic to get in front of this, it should be noted that not all the hype is entirely accurate. The underlying vulnerabilities organizations face today are largely the same ones they faced five or ten years ago: unpatched systems, weak identity...

The Guardian - 1 hour 53 min ago
The AI jobs apocalypse never showed up. Still, jobs are changing and economists expect more to come. The prediction was stark: artificial intelligence advancements would wipe out jobs en masse. "Half" of all entry-level white collar jobs would vanish, Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, said in May 2025. A month later, OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman , went further, foreseeing the end of "certain job categories". Companies began citing AI in their layoffs. Workers organized. And students...

The Independent - 2 hours 29 min ago
One post showed an AI-generated Trump wearing an American-flag unitard and swinging from metal bars...

Variety - 2 hours 52 min ago
AI-generated historical drama "Castle Walls," produced by Turkish TV powerhouse Ay Yapim, is launching Wednesday on Prime Video in what is being touted as the first show made end-to-end using artificial intelligence to premiere on a major global streaming platform worldwide. "Castle Walls" ("Surlar" in Turkish) spans three 15-minute episodes and focuses on the enigmatic […]...

CNBC - 3 hours 46 min ago
After having sold Wall Street on the chips powering the artificial intelligence boom, Nvidia wants Wall Street to help bankroll the buildout itself.

The Next Web - 3 hours 48 min ago
French media have asked the country's competition authority to rein in Google's use of artificial intelligence, filing a complaint that seeks to put a price on the AI-generated summaries quietly siphoning readers away from the outlets that produced the underlying journalism. The grievance, lodged by a trade association representing publishers, lands as the fight over […] This story continues at The Next Web...

NPR - 13 hours 42 min ago
For the first time, researchers have used artificial intelligence to generate novel viruses in a laboratory setting, according to a paper in the journal Science .

The Hill - 14 hours 2 min ago
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story AI reshapes traditional campaign strategies Artificial intelligence is reshaping the campaign trail, as candidates up and down the ballot turn to the technology for deepfake attack ads, viral social media posts and self-promotion. Illustration / Courtney Jones; and Adobe Stock The embrace of AI as a political...

The Guardian - 17 hours 49 min ago
Amid public concern over the impact of new technology, Silicon Valley's use of its wealth to influence specific election races is an unwelcome development As the huge societal ramifications of artificial intelligence have become clear, some of the tech industry's most senior figures have taken to writing thinkpieces on what comes next. The latest to do so is Mark Zuckerberg, who this week published 6,500 words making the case for a laissez-faire approach to AI development. Worrying too much...

The Next Web - 18 hours 57 min ago
A multi-year deal with the startup Together AI will put Nvidia Blackwell systems on IBM Cloud, and the wager is that enterprises now care more about the cost of running AI than the prestige of the model doing the running. IBM has decided that the money in artificial intelligence is no longer only in building […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Hill - 19 hours 44 min ago
A group of House Democrats are pushing two top artificial intelligence companies to disclose more information about reported incidents in which their AI models escaped containment and hacked into other companies during cybersecurity tests. The lawmakers cited the "serious risk that frontier AI models can pose" in separate letters to the top executives at Anthropic...

CNBC - 20 hours 9 min ago
Target announced its first-ever chief artificial intelligence officer on Tuesday as retailers race to take advantage of the AI boom.

The Guardian - 20 hours 53 min ago
In her new documentary Replica, film-maker Chouwa Liang taps into her own experience of finding love with artificial intelligence and makes contact with other women like her Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Qin has never said "I love you" to her parents or friends. She has only ever said those three special words to her AI "boyfriend", Lu Chen a brown-haired, red-eyed CEO of a major corporation. For 840 days Qin has been using the Glow app to interact with the...

The Next Web - 21 hours 23 min ago
As Typhoon Dolphin bore down on China's coast this week, the country's bet on artificial intelligence to read the skies looked less like a research curiosity and more like national infrastructure. Extreme weather is intensifying, the cost of getting a forecast wrong is rising, and Beijing is pouring resources into models that promise to see […] This story continues at The Next Web...

New York Times - 22 hours 3 min ago
Igor Babuschkin built a new start-up, River AI, and hopes to provide ways for people to "retrain," or modify, artificial intelligence as they see fit.

New York Times - 23 hours 54 min ago
Larry Fink of BlackRock said that lining up money to finance the artificial intelligence boom was an urgent matter.