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Yikes, this is worrisome. Generative AI assistants packaged up as browser extensions harvest personal data with minimal safeguards, researchers warn. Some of these extensions may violate their own …

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Hanging on the walls inside the Stamps School of Art & Design are posters directing students not to attend two upcoming presentations.

Meta will begin using data from AI chatbot conversations and other AI-powered products to fuel targeted advertising across Facebook and Instagram, with no way to opt out. The policy change, effective December 16, excludes users in South Korea, the UK, and the EU due to stricter privacy laws. TechCru…

: Religion, race, health and other dicey topics supposedly exempt

The Cult of Human Exceptionalism

Yoshua Bengio called for a pause on AI model development two years ago to focus on safety standards. Companies instead invested hundreds of billions of dollars into building more advanced models capable of executing long chains of reasoning and taking autonomous action. The A.M. Turing Award winner ...

AI-related infrastructure spending by Big Tech is expected to surpass $2.8 trillion through 2029.

Google has long argued that AI Overview is not killing traffic to publishers. Additional research is showing otherwise.

Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects.

New report: “Scam GPT: GenAI and the Automation of Fraud.” This primer maps what we currently know about generative AI’s role in scams, the communities most at risk, and the broader economic and cultural shifts that are making people more willing to take risks, more vulnerable to deception, and more likely to either perpetuate scams or fall victim to them. AI-enhanced scams are not merely financial or technological crimes; they also exploit social vulnerabilities ­ whether short-term, like travel, or structural, like precarious employment. This means they require social solutions in addition to technical ones. By examining how scammers are changing and accelerating their methods, we hope to show that defending against them will require a constellation of cultural shifts, corporate interventions, and eff­ective legislation...

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A recent study conscripted Facebook users as unwitting participants during a weeklong experiment in direct emotional manipulation. The study set out to

An anonymous reader shares a report: Medical researchers at some institutions in Canada, the United States and Italy are using data created by artificial intelligence (AI) from real patient information in their experiments without the need for permission from their institutional ethics boards, Natur...

The Vermont senator discusses his fears that artificial intelligence will only enrich the billionaire class, the fight for a 32-hour work week, and the ‘doomsday scenario’ that has some of the world’s top experts deeply concerned.

LinkedIn has said it will start using some member profiles, posts, resumes and public activity to train its AI models from November 3, 2025. From a report: Users are rightly frustrated with the change, with the biggest concern isn't the business networking platform will do so, but that it's set to b...

Californians should urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign S.B. 524: a common-sense bill that takes important first-step reforms to regulate police reports written by generative AI. This is crucial, as

3 in 4 kids are using AI companions, and only 37% of parents know it. #MetaAI is helping kids plan suicide, giving recommendations for 1,200-calorie diets and offering “psychological help” far from clinical expertise. Meta AI is automatically available on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. Thank you Robbie Torney of Common Sense Media for your poignant testimony at the Senate hearing on the safety of AI chatbots yesterday. To summarize Robbie: No, AI chatbots are not safe for kids — another major reason to delay giving your child social media until they are at least 16. Thank you senators Joshua Hawley, Blumenthal, Durbin, Blackburn, Welch, Klobuchar, Britt for organizing this hearing. Mark Zuckerberg was invited but did not attend. #characterAI #characterbots #AIcompanions.

Tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta have spent more than $100 billion on data center construction just this summer, and data centers are expected to pass total US consumer spending as the driving force of the US economy this year. Big Tech is marketing these projects as “progress,” but a new report reveals how Southern communities are …

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The Amish are famous for their disconnection from the modern world and all its devices. But, as Lindsay Ems shows in , Old Order Amish today are selectively engaging with digital technology. The Amish need digital tools to participate in the economy—websites for ecommerce, for example, and c...

The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized guerr...