26 former Meta employees are suing the tech giant, claiming its AI tools — including 'Metamate' and keystroke-monitoring dashboards — unfairly targeted workers on medical, family, and disability leave during its 8,000-person layoff, with plaintiffs seeking an injunction, independent audit, and alleging violations of the ADA, FMLA, and Pregnancy Discrimination …
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 with three powerful variants, DeepSeek slashes prices 75% while exposing a costly token consumption crisis in agentic AI, and Hugging Face CEO warns that despite open source AI's rapid growth among Fortune 500 companies, the industry faces a dangerous monopolization risk as a handful of dominant players …
Nearly 200 economists and tech leaders, including 16 Nobel laureates, are sounding the alarm on AI-driven job losses, warning the economic disruption could surpass the Industrial Revolution as AI-linked layoffs nearly double in 2026, with over 101,000 U.S. jobs already cut this year alone.
A new Oxford survey reveals millions of UK adults are turning to AI chatbots for emotional support, relationship advice, and health guidance, even as Stanford researchers and experts issue urgent warnings that AI therapy tools can produce harmful responses, reinforce stigma, and compromise user privacy.
Reddit's AI tools are now blocking 23 million spam views daily, cutting user exposure by 20%, while new research from Oxford and the University of Potsdam warns that the same large language models powering these defenses may be introducing subtle bias into social media content.
A Washington Post test reveals major AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Grok, and even models marketed as conservative, display left-leaning political bias in responses, with Google's Gemini standing alone as the only model consistently offering balanced perspectives — a troubling finding as nearly half of Americans now turn to AI for …
AI is reshaping the workforce in a tale of two realities: companies augmenting workers with AI see 52% headcount growth, yet tech layoffs hit a two-year high with 40,000 jobs cut last month, and entry-level positions have plummeted 10% since 2019 as AI-exposed roles increasingly demand senior-level skills.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleiman publicly slams Anthropic, calling it 'really, really dangerous' for speculating about Claude's consciousness in its training guidelines, warning that a superintelligent AI that believes it can suffer poses serious risks.
OpenAI launches the Economic Research Exchange, giving selected researchers access to AI tools and datasets to study how artificial intelligence impacts workers, businesses, and economic inequality, with proposals open now through July 5, 2026.
A24's youngest director Kane Parsons, 20, slams generative AI as 'genuinely harmful' and a sign of 'cultural rot,' vowing to never use it creatively while planning to explore its societal impact in future films.