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Meta employee rallies troops to help protect their privacy, while still working for data hungry giant
An internal chat from inside Meta has gone viral after one employee attempted to start an uprising over the use of surveillance software in Mark Zuckerberg’s offices.
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Orange’s AI rollout sparks strike and surveillance fears among French workers
French telecom giant Orange faced a nationwide strike on Tuesday, as unions accused management of using AI and geolocation systems to increase workplace surveillance and pressure employees.
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China now selling AI like mobile data: pay monthly for tokens starting at $1.40
China’s biggest telecom operators are rolling out subscription plans that charge customers for AI tokens much like standard mobile data allowances. The move could mark a major shift in how artificial intelligence may be sold to consumers worldwide.
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New study unveils empirical proof that AI systems can pass the famous Turing test
After conducting a thorough three-party Turing test, researchers have found that AI models – if suitably prompted – can now pass as humans in short, casual text conversations. We’ve tried out the test ourselves.
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Polish fashion brand Sinsay now uses AI to design clothes in 6-12 weeks instead of 6-12 months
Polish clothing retailer LPP, the owner of the Reserved and Sinsay brands, is expanding its use of AI to cut costs and speed up its response to fashion trends, it said in an investor day presentation on Thursday.
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Students outraged after AI malfunction sparks graduation chaos at Arizona college
An Arizona college sparked outrage after its new AI graduation system skipped hundreds of student names during commencement – and then refused to give graduates a second chance to walk the stage.
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Intuit to lay off 17% of workforce by July 31 amid AI restructuring, memo says
Intuit is cutting about 3,000 jobs worldwide – roughly 17% of its workforce – as the TurboTax and QuickBooks maker restructures around AI investments and streamlined operations, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
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Anthropic hyped Mythos as a hacking apocalypse, governments panicked for nothing, security pros say
Early fears that Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos, could dramatically turbocharge hacking are looking overstated a month after its release.
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Filipino workers using AI are behind CEO thought leadership posts on LinkedIn
Next time you see an executive sharing their thoughts on business and politics in a LinkedIn post, keep in mind that it may have been written by AI supervised by a virtual assistant in the Philippines.
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Meta offers rival AI chatbots free WhatsApp access as EU scrutiny intensifies
Meta Platforms has offered to give rival AI chatbots including OpenAI free access to its social messaging service WhatsApp in Europe, but will start charging them once they hit a limit, two people with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday.
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Alibaba unveils new AI chip to rival Nvidia
Alibaba Group has unveiled a new AI chip, the Zhenwu M890, as the Chinese technology giant intensifies efforts to build domestic alternatives to Nvidia processors amid tightening US export curbs.
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Google unveils Gemini Omni, Antigravity 2.0 at AI-packed I/O 2026 developer conference
Google kicked off its annual Google I/O 2026 developer conference Tuesday with a major push toward agentic AI, unveiling Gemini Omni, a highly advanced AI video simulation model, the faster Gemini 3.5 Flash, and Antigravity 2.0, its agent-first coding platform built for autonomous AI tasks.
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Musk promises xAI employees $420 to feed their tax returns to Grok, but they still haven’t been paid
In a desperate attempt to compete with other AI giants, Elon Musk asked his employees for their financial data in exchange for a symbolic bonus, which they still haven’t received.
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AI-powered bug-finding and exploitation challenge is transitional, Ethereum's Buterin says
As more stories of AI-enabled exploits targeting crypto protocols emerge, the co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain, Vitalik Buterin, says he's optimistic that AI can also finally enable the implementation of an old protection method at scale.
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AI agents running radio stations: revenue is terrible, but oh, what fun!
Andon Labs gave 4 AI models some radio stations to run. What happened next was both impressive and completely unhinged. And it’s still happening. If you’re up for some cringe, go have a listen.
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Cloudflare lets Mythos loose on live code, says AI is too powerful for public release
Cloudflare’s CISCO has been evaluating Mythos Preview and appears to have come to broadly the same conclusions as Anthropic about the advanced AI model’s capabilities.
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“Poisoning the well:” EY retracts cyber report packed with AI slop
Consultancy group Ernst & Young (EY) has withdrawn a cybersecurity report after an investigation by GPTZero found that 70% of the citations within it were either fabricated or broken.
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Meta will lay off 10% of workforce on Wednesday and transfer 7,000 employees to build AI agents
Meta detailed its layoff plans for this week in a memo shared with employees on Monday, saying cuts to its workforce globally would be accompanied by a fresh round of organizational changes aimed at improving the company's AI workflows.
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Pope Leo to address AI in his first encyclical with Anthropic co-founder
Pope Leo XIV will release his first in-depth encyclical on May 25th. The Holy Father will elaborate on the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) and the challenges for workers.
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Elon Musk loses lawsuit against OpenAI as jury sides with AI giant
A US jury on Monday ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, finding the artificial intelligence company not liable to the world's richest person for having allegedly strayed from its original mission to benefit humanity.
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