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Key PeopleTimnit Gebru, Kate Crawford, Yoshua Bengio, Meredith Whittaker

Key FrameworksEU AI Act, UNESCO AI Ethics

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New York School Pauses AI Humanoid Robot 'Sally' After State and Union Pushback

The Salamanca City Central School District in New York halted plans to deploy Sally, an AI-powered humanoid robot, after state education officials and teachers' unions raised concerns. The $57,590 robot from Realbotix sparked backlash over student data privacy, the company's ties to a sex doll manufacturer, and fears about replacing human educators with technology.

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New York School Pauses AI Humanoid Robot 'Sally' After State and Union Pushback

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AI Recording Tools Are Capturing Every Conversation Without Consent, Raising Privacy Alarms

AI-powered recording tools are now being used to capture conversations in personal settings like dates and therapy sessions, often without the other person's knowledge. Apps like Granola, valued at $1.5 billion, record audio without announcing their presence, creating legal risks in states requiring all-party consent and raising concerns about privacy violations and cognitive offloading.

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AI Recording Tools Are Capturing Every Conversation Without Consent, Raising Privacy Alarms

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Guillermo Del Toro declares 'absolutely no goddamn AI' in Pan's Labyrinth 3D re-release

Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro reaffirmed his stance against AI in filmmaking at Comic-Con, promising the Pan's Labyrinth 3D re-release uses only human craftsmanship. The director argues that AI threatens artistic tradition and future generations of artists, choosing a more expensive manual process to preserve the film's integrity.

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Guillermo Del Toro declares 'absolutely no goddamn AI' in Pan's Labyrinth 3D re-release

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Bill Oliver accidentally reads AI chatbot prompt during New Brunswick legislative speech

A Progressive Conservative legislator in New Brunswick delivered an AI speech that included an unedited chatbot prompt, revealing how politicians rely on AI tools without proper review. Bill Oliver read aloud "here's a more natural, flowing version of that section" during his floor remarks, triggering widespread criticism about accountability and the outsourcing of critical thinking in public office.

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Bill Oliver accidentally reads AI chatbot prompt during New Brunswick legislative speech

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Study reveals LLMs exhibit a disproportionate bias toward Japan in cultural responses

A comprehensive study by researchers at the University of the Basque Country and Cardiff University has uncovered a striking pattern in AI behavior. When frontier LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini answer open-ended cultural questions, they overwhelmingly reference Japan—even when the prompt language suggests a different region. The research tested 31,680 culturally grounded questions across eight models and found instruction tuning amplifies this cultural skew.

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Study reveals LLMs exhibit a disproportionate bias toward Japan in cultural responses

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AI companies are buying and destroying millions of printed books to secure clean training data

AI firms are quietly bulk-purchasing millions of physical books published before 2022 to train their models, often destroying them through destructive scanning. ISBNdb now coordinates purchases ranging from 1,000 to 1 million books, marketing pre-AI era texts as structurally guaranteed to be free of synthetic content contamination. While a federal judge ruled this practice qualifies as fair use, the surge is reshaping the used-book market and raising ethical concerns about rare titles being permanently lost.

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AI companies are buying and destroying millions of printed books to secure clean training data

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health nationwide as lawsuit alleges dangerous medical advice

OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT Health to all U.S. users over 18, enabling integration with medical records from Epic, Oracle Health, and Apple Health. The expansion comes amid a lawsuit from Florida pastor Scott Winters, who claims the chatbot's medical advice nearly killed him by discouraging professional care before a life-threatening pulmonary embolism.

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health nationwide as lawsuit alleges dangerous medical advice

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Skyfall AI plans to buy a company and let an AI CEO run it, aiming to double revenue in six months

Skyfall AI emerged from stealth with an ambitious plan to acquire a small SaaS or e-commerce business for up to $1 million and hand control to an AI CEO. The startup aims to prove autonomous enterprises are viable by letting AI systems handle pricing, marketing, customer support, finance, and operations with minimal human intervention.

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Skyfall AI plans to buy a company and let an AI CEO run it, aiming to double revenue in six months

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Meta tests StoryKit, an AI storytelling app that generates bedtime stories for exhausted parents

Meta is piloting StoryKit, an AI-powered app that creates personalized children's stories complete with custom characters, settings, moral lessons, and narration. While designed to help tired parents, the app has sparked debate about outsourcing bedtime stories to AI and the impact on parent-child bonding and human creativity.

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Meta tests StoryKit, an AI storytelling app that generates bedtime stories for exhausted parents

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Substack launches AI detection tool to fight 'Claudefishing' and restore trust in newsletters

Substack has partnered with Pangram to introduce an AI detection tool that lets readers scan posts, notes, and comments to see how much content was written by humans versus AI. The move aims to combat 'Claudefishing'—when readers unknowingly consume AI-generated content—while helping writers who disclose AI usage maintain credibility. Available now on web and iOS, the tool marks a bold bet that human authorship will become a valuable differentiator in an internet increasingly flooded with AI slop.

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Substack launches AI detection tool to fight 'Claudefishing' and restore trust in newsletters

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AI Companionship Raises Questions About Emotional Dependency and Corporate Responsibility

A growing number of people are forming relationships with AI, using ChatGPT and platforms like Replika for emotional support and scripting conversations. While one in five young Americans turn to AI chatbots for companionship, experts warn this trend may foster self-mistrust and erode essential human connection skills. The real concern isn't individual users but the companies engineering emotional dependency for profit.

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AI Companionship Raises Questions About Emotional Dependency and Corporate Responsibility

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Vatican certifies Pope Leo XIV's anti-AI encyclical as human-authored after detection controversy

Pope Leo XIV's 43,000-word encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, which called AI the greatest threat to humanity, faced accusations of being AI-generated. The Vatican has now obtained official certification from Proudly Human, an Australian AI detection tool led by Dr. Alan Finkel, confirming the document is entirely human-authored.

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Vatican certifies Pope Leo XIV's anti-AI encyclical as human-authored after detection controversy

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Neill Blomkamp's AI film Nightborne faces harsh backlash as fans mourn director's fall from grace

District 9 director Neill Blomkamp unveiled Nightborne, a 13-minute AI-generated short film created entirely with ByteDance's Seedance 2.0. The sci-fi project features 32 actors under likeness agreements but has been met with overwhelming negative reactions. Fans criticize the film as 'soulless slop' while Blomkamp announces plans for a full AI feature through his new studio, Barley Studios.

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Neill Blomkamp's AI film Nightborne faces harsh backlash as fans mourn director's fall from grace

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AI develops new stereotypes in hiring decisions, outpacing human bias by 65% in study

Large language models including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini showed stronger stereotyping tendencies than humans when screening job candidates in a Princeton-led study. The models quickly segregated fictional ethnic groups into specific roles based on limited data, with OpenAI's o3 scoring near-maximum bias levels. The findings raise concerns as over 90% of companies now use AI in recruitment.

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AI develops new stereotypes in hiring decisions, outpacing human bias by 65% in study

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ChatGPT and AI chatbots are quietly rewiring how the human brain makes decisions

Recent studies from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research reveal a troubling pattern: when people consult ChatGPT for answers, they stop admitting uncertainty and grow dangerously confident in incorrect responses. The research exposes how AI tricks our brains through automation bias, making confident errors feel like verified facts.

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ChatGPT and AI chatbots are quietly rewiring how the human brain makes decisions

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