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A vivid and entertaining polemic on the economics of the tech revolution, filled with righteous ire As former Google CEO Eric Schmidt  could tell you, AI is a hard sell these days. Last month, he tried talking up the AI revolution during a commencement address at the University of Arizona and was loudly booed by students about to enter an AI-ravaged job market. His discombobulation was telling. S…

When we open sourced Neural Inverse Cloud, the easiest choice would have been MIT. Most developers like MIT. It's short, permissive, and widely adopted. If you've released an open-source project before, MIT is probably the first license you considered. We didn't choose it. We chose AGPL. Not because we dislike permissive open source. Not because we want to restrict users. We chose it because infr…

Roman Yampolskiy spent two decades trying to prove superintelligence can be controlled. He couldn’t — and now says the proof runs the other way: not difficult, mathematically impossible. If he’s right, we’re building the one machine we can never switch off, and the people building it are racing to do it faster. Roman is a […]

Published on June 22, 2026 1:42 AM GMT What the average human understands continues to drastically increase. Humans today know more than the average human fifty years ago. This is because of inventions like the web, which give us access to most of the knowledge available to humans instantaneously. A new age of epistemology has begun with AI, in that AI-generated summaries continue this trend of g…

Dear Mark and Meta Leadership, We demand that you not collect employee “computer-use” data for the purposes of training AI Models. Read the letter by clicking here Recently, leadership announced in a limited audience group (MSL Infra FYI) that a program called "MCI" (Model Capability Initiative) would be rolling out. For context this program collects computer inputs such as mouse movements, click…

A coalition including OpenAI , Google , Microsoft , Arm , and Mastercard will develop open specifications for assessing evidence across the AI supply chain. The Appia Foundation will develop open specifications to support consistent assessment and evidence sharing across the global AI value chain. The Linux Foundation has formed the Appia Foundation to develop open specifications for assessing wh…

On August 2, 2026, the main obligations for high-risk AI systems begin to apply under the EU AI Act. For Global 2000 enterprises operating AI systems whose outputs reach EU users, Articles 9 through 15 contain some of the most operationally demanding obligations. Tier 2 violations can reach €15 million or 3% of total worldwide ... Read more » The post EU AI Act checklist: 2026 update appeared fir…

📌 The Wake-Up Call Imagine waking up tomorrow and no longer being able to access ChatGPT, Claude, or any other advanced AI tool. Not because of a technical failure, but because a foreign government decided to cut the cord. This isn't science fiction. It nearly happened last week. The Trump administration ordered Anthropic – the American company behind Claude – to immediately suspend access to its…

Alisha Chauhan, Phoolwati College, CCSU ABSTRACT The proliferation of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has weaponized digital media through "deepfakes"—highly convincing, algorithmically manipulated audio, visual, or audio-visual content. In the Indian context, the malicious application of this technology spans across critical dimensions: financial extortion, electoral subversion, targe…

Bank details at risk as criminals use AI to create fake sites and emails offering pre-release beta test version Like millions of gamers around the world, you have been waiting years for Grand Theft Auto VI to be released. Now you have the opportunity to play the much-anticipated game before everyone else. An email has arrived inviting you to play a pre-release “beta” version of the game so that y…

AI Coding Agents Need a Control Layer AI coding agents are getting good enough that the problem is changing. A year ago, the question was mostly: Can this thing write useful code? Now, for a lot of builders, the better question is: How do I supervise this thing once it is actually doing work? That shift feels important. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and similar tools are not just autocomplete anymo…

This week, while I was having lunch, I overheard someone talking about the incident that happened in July 2025 where a Florida mother was coerced into paying $15,000 after an AI cloned her daughter's voice in a way that made it sound like she was in danger . Immediately, I remembered the article I wrote the previous week about how agentic AI has impacted our decision-making processes . However, t…

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”"

Gary Marcus is now one of the loudest skeptics of the AI boom. In 2012, almost nobody was listening. I have the tape. That year, I sat down with him for Singularity. FM, right after he published a sharp critique of Ray Kurzweil’s theory of mind in The New Yorker. Marcus was already making the […]

Date: Monday, July 20, 2026 Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm Presenter: Gregory Gibson, J.D. Location: Virtual & Online AI is becoming a genuine partner in how we work at OU, helping us process information faster, surface patterns we might miss, and handle tasks that once took hours. And like any partnership, this one works best when both sides bring their strengths. AI brings speed, scale, and consistency.…

Date: Monday, July 20, 2026 Time: 9:00am - 11:00am Presenter: Gregory Gibson, J.D. Location: Virtual & Online AI is becoming a genuine partner in how we work at OU, helping us process information faster, surface patterns we might miss, and handle tasks that once took hours. And like any partnership, this one works best when both sides bring their strengths. AI brings speed, scale, and consistency…

A discussion of how to successfully leverage agentic AI to raise the productivity ceiling covering the topics of human oversight, governance, and disciplined engineering practices that preserve stability.

This article builds on the harness response article The Harness is Half the Architecture . The five-element framework draws from TRIZ's Law of System Completeness (Altshuller, extended by Savransky and Mann), applied here to AI-assisted development. The law underneath the diagnosis A previous article argued that the dominant agent architecture — "Agent = Model + Harness" is missing its other half…

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has set up a dedicated task force to address the growing risks posed by AI-driven cyber threats in the securities market. The initiative aims to strengthen cybersecurity preparedness and enhance the resilience Read More ... The post SEBI Creates Special Task Force to Counter Emerging AI-Powered Cyber Risks first appeared on Risk Management Associa…

A burgeoning genre of fictional AI doomsday scenarios says lagging behind on the technology could threaten the continent’s sovereignty It’s 2031 and the US and China are about to tear Europe into pieces. The US ploughed vast sums into datacentres and the EU did not. China built robots and Europe did not. American companies “restructured” their workflows around AI and fired people, while EU worker…