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A sticker featuring an eagle, American flags, and text celebrating the 250th anniversary of voting from 1776 to 2026.

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Voter spots garbled AI on an 'I voted' sticker

Google headquarters.

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Google DeepMind staff quit over military AI work: 'Ashamed to work at Google'

An AI-generated woman stands in a bar, then she looks at her phone, with a graphic overlay saying "Mean Comments."

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A craft brewery in New Jersey unveiled AI 'Sarah,' then doubled down as critics piled on

A hand above a laptop, with warning and checkmark icons displayed on the screen.

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OpenCode says 1.4% of Console users were breached, and some saw $1,000 AI charges

A robot in a grocery store aisle.

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Shopper thought 6-foot Ralphs robot was following him as many wonder what store bots really see

An empty classroom.

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Fired Massachusetts teacher says AI wrote the performance review that cost her her job

A frustrated person looking at a phone.

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AI ads keep slipping by without disclaimers, and viewers are asking what's real

A book shop owner holds several books while standing in a stock room.

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South Korea bookstore rejects bid for 100,000 books from buyer identified only as 'data company'

A person looks at a smartwatch while wearing a colorful bracelet on their wrist.

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Amazon's Bee AI mines daily chatter for reminders and turns it into shopping intel

A variety of digitally generated vegetables arranged on a wooden countertop next to a digital tablet displaying "AI."

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Researchers traced 2,100 sham recipe sites built to flood feeds with AI 'slop'

A large industrial building with rooftop equipment and nearby vehicles on a landscape with sparse vegetation.

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Economist warns lawmakers about devastating consequences of AI boom: 'Mass unemployment'

Workers in a textile factory are sewing garments at their stations with cameras on their foreheads.

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In India, workers are forced to wear forehead cameras so robots can learn their jobs