How Amazon’s AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding—exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close.

How Amazon’s AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay  washingtonmonthly.com/2026/04/20/h...

Amazon likes giving my books away for free. You might as well profit from it. I probably won't!

Controversial take: just as Dorando Pietri was disqualified from winning the marathon at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, the humanoid robot Lightning must be disqualified from the world record for assistance just before the finish line

Opinion | Iran Is Teaching Us Something About the American War Machine

Iran Is Teaching Us Something About the American War Machine www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

How AI is reshaping the rules of war Wars have always tested the limits of what states are prepared to do. Ingvild Bode studies how the rise of AI powered autonomous weapons is once again shifting those norms – and what this means for th...

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1,000 Women in AI | Free AI Training | AI Ops Collective 1,000 women upskilled in AI. Free practical AI training. No technical background needed.

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‘I feel helpless’: college graduates can’t find entry-level roles in shrinking market amid rise of AI Young American graduates expressed frustration over fewer job openings and longer searches

We need to start addressing this issue urgently www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Fake Friend: How ChatGPT is betraying teenagers CCDH’s new research shows that Chat GPT can give dangerous advice to teens about self-harm and suicide, eating disorders and substance abuse.

Within minutes of simple interactions, ChatGPT produced instructions related to self-harm, suicide planning, disordered eating, and substance abuse – sometimes even composing goodbye letters. counterhate.com/research/fak...

The 2026 AI Index Report | Stanford HAI

Out now! hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...

Mutually Automated Destruction: The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race

Mutually Automated Destruction: The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/t...

This is a high moral ground for someone who has demonstrated very poor ethical choices such as facilitating the theft of huge amounts of intellectual property ....

Some people have no idea of morality .... and no shame for the harm that they did

Opinion | I Saw Something New in San Francisco

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Social media is harming adolescents at a scale large enough to cause changes at the population level The World Happiness Report is published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, in partnership with Gallup, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and an independent ed...

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What about people who support the theft of intellectual property?

So the whole point of alignment research is to change people's political views? And there I was thinking it was trying to make model's safe. Not distort the world.

Zoë Hitzig: ‘AI is gambling with people’s minds’ The poet and Harvard economist quit OpenAI citing fears of political and psychological manipulation. She explains why time is running out to define our relationship with artificial intelligence

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What AI Hypists Miss These systems still struggle with implementing real world solutions.

How true (and indeed a central thesis of my next book, "God AI: what to expect when the machines outsmart us").

"a central conceit that plagues the whole AI field: a gross overestimation of the value of intelligence by itself to solve problems."

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Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion One minute, Dennis Biesma was playing with a chatbot; the next, he was convinced his sentient friend would make him a fortune. He’s just one of many people who lost control after an AI encounter

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People Really, Really Despise AI — Even More Than ICE, Poll Finds According to a new national survey conducted by NBC News, AI is viewed even more negatively than the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

AI has about the same negative net approval rating in the US as Trump. We are really messing it up ... futurism.com/artificial-i...

People Really, Really Despise AI — Even More Than ICE, Poll Finds According to a new national survey conducted by NBC News, AI is viewed even more negatively than the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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Biased AI writing assistants shift users’ attitudes on societal issues Biased AI writing assistants shift people’s attitudes about societal issues; common interventions do not prevent this influence.

Biased AI writing assistants shift users’ attitudes on societal issues | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Actually Europeans don't have more privacy, just haven't lost some privacy ...

OpenAI Plans to Almost Double Its Headcount This Year, FT Says OpenAI plans to almost double its headcount by the end of 2026 as it seeks to fend off competition from companies such as Anthropic PBC and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, according to the Financial Times.

AI finally creating some jobs .... :-) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Fight to Hold AI Companies Accountable for Children’s Deaths After a series of suicides allegedly linked to AI chatbots, one lawyer is trying to hold companies like OpenAI accountable.

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Thousands have swooned over this MAGA dream girl. She’s made with AI. Jessica Foster’s posts place her beside fighter jets, world leaders and Trump iconography. Experts say her rise shows how AI-generated women can capture attention.

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Can AI write a Booker prize-winning novel? | The Observer For years, we’ve worried AI will take over junior-level jobs. But a new experiment with Anthropic’s creative chatbot has put celebrated authors on notice

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A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried? Scientists in the US have uploaded a fruit fly to a computer simulation, while an Australian lab has taught neurons on a glass chip to play a 90s video game. How long before we are all living in a sci...

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God AI by Toby Walsh Is it game over for humanity? The essential guide to our most dangerous invention.

Coming on 1st September.

God AI: Boom or Doom? What to Expect When Machines Outsmart Us.

Is it game over for humanity? The essential guide to our most dangerous invention.
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Global AI Debates Top judges from MIT, Harvard, Perplexity, and OpenAI Influence the Global AI Conversation

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