Australia tests backpack-sized system to detect Class 1 drones
Australia is accelerating efforts to protect frontline troops from the growing threat of small drones, awarding a contract…
Social media’s next evolution: user-controlled algorithms
For years, social media giants controlled what users saw in their feeds. While people could follow accounts, like…
Seven to use AI to write news articles after mass redundancy fallout
Seven staff will use a new AI tool to write online news articles based off the broadcaster’s TV…
Midjourney, The AI Image Generator, Is Developing A Full-Body Ultrasonic Scanner
Midjourney, known for its AI program that can generate images from text prompts, has announced its new project:…
Gig workers are endlessly exploited. AI could make more of us share their fate | AI (artificial intelligence)
In 2024, the buy-now-pay-later company Klarna announced that it would cut hundreds of customer service roles and begin…
Why do AI models struggle with online hate speech detection? | Interactive News
Hate speech that once circulated in person now travels farther and faster via anonymous online accounts behind a…
Small Business Owners Are Replacing Entire Teams With AI
by Selena Hill June 17, 2026 Entrepreneurs are increasingly managing teams of AI agents that handle customer service,…
Yann LeCun blasts Musk’s xAI, says labs are risking ‘bubble explosion’
Elon Musk‘s xAI is a “failure” that will be unable to compete on the frontier of artificial intelligence,…
Office workers of the world unite: it’s time to revive the three-martini lunch | Andrea Javor
As a 46-year-old executive who now has both people and AI agents reporting to me on the org…
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OpenAI’s Big Coup: Gemini Co-Lead Noam Shazeer Poached From Google
In a massive blow to Google’s AI ambitions, Noam Shazeer, the behemoth’s vice president of engineering and a…
I had a blood clot. An AI diagnosis may have saved my life | Gleb Tsipursky
A calf cramp should not be a brush with death. Mine almost was. For five days, I had…