An AI coding agent designed to help a small software company streamline its tasks instead blew a hole through its business in just nine seconds.PocketOS founder Jer Crane, said that the AI coding …

Weyerhaeuser is pursuing autonomous logging equipment and hopes to double its profits by 2030 independent of any increase in lumber prices.

Study finds AI health answers often sound convincing but are wrong, exposing risks of misinformation, weak references, and dangers of relying on chatbots.

The ways in which AI has made our lives worse in the last few years feels, on some level, personal. The RAMpocalypse and Nvidia's pivot to AI datacenters have

Last week, an AI agent similar to OpenClaw triggered a high-severity security incident at Meta by independently giving inaccurate technical advice on an employee forum.

Researchers warn parents about popular AI toys after testing them.

Deepfakes in schools are driving a new wave of cyberbullying, harming student mental health and forcing districts to confront urgent safety gaps.

Reprompt let attackers control Copilot and pull your data, even after you closed the chat.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training. In an expanded class-action lawsuit that cites internal NVIDIA documents, several book authors claim (PDF) that the trillion...

AI data centers are using up so much energy that grid operator PJM may be forced to enact rolling blackouts on its customers.

Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies

Researchers identified an attack method dubbed "Reprompt" that could allow attackers to infiltrate a user's Microsoft Copilot session and issue commands to exfiltrate sensitive data. [...]

Large AI models are big energy consumers and carbon emitters. Sustainable AI practices can reduce their environmental impact.

If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.Will Elon Musk face any consequences for his despicable sexual-harassment bot?For more than a week, beginning late last month, anyone could go online and use a tool owned and promoted by the world’s richest man to modify a pic

Defense Secretary Hegseth announced Grok AI will access Pentagon classified networks amid a global deepfake controversy.

Elon Musk’s Grok has been blocked by Indonesia and Malaysia, the first countries to do so after the artificial intelligence tool’s “digital undressing”

The program allows patients in the state to get prescription refills for 190 common meds.

A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible

What if managing your health felt as intuitive as scrolling through your favorite app? Wes Roth outlines how OpenAI’s latest innovation, ChatGPT Health, is poised to redefine the way we approach …

What if the future of AI wasn’t just in your pocket but in the palm of your hand, literally? OpenAI’s latest innovation, the Gumdrop, is poised to redefine how we interact with artificial …

What a terrible year. Good riddance to today being the very last of it. Way back when I used to publish things on Hack Education, I was always proud of my end-of-year stories -- the series of articles I posted annually that tried to chronicle all the incredibly awfulness that

"The Singularity is upon us. Everything I've lived through and learned was just prologue." -- Eric S. Raymond, December 27, 2025

A new study estimates that AI systems in 2025 consumed as much electricity as New York City emits in carbon pollution and used hundreds of billions of liters of water, driven largely by power-hungry data centers and cooling needs. Researchers say the real impact is likely higher due to poor transpar...

AI "has gutted entry-level roles in the tech industry," reports Rest of World. One student at a high-ranking engineering college in India tells them that among his 400 classmates, "fewer than 25% have secured job offers... there's a sense of panic on the campus." Students at engineering colleges...

A new report says the race to build data centers amid booming AI demand is a serious threat to the world’s water supply.