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A newly unsealed filing in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveals internal communications showing employees at both companies recognized their AI tools could jeopardize the publishers whose content trains them. The filing suggests executives were aware of this risk even as they continued developing and deploying the technology.
A career-focused article identifies 12 behavioral and situational cues—like being excluded from meetings or decisions—that suggest an employee's influence at work is declining. It pairs each warning sign with corrective strategies, including adopting AI tools and shifting from task execution to strategic contribution.
AI-powered dermatology tools designed to identify skin conditions like melanoma are becoming more accurate overall, but researchers have found these systems perform less reliably for patients with darker skin. The disparity stems largely from training datasets that contain far fewer images of skin conditions on non-white patients.
Amazon is currently selling the unlocked 128GB Samsung Galaxy S26 FE for $699.99 with a free $200 Amazon gift card included. The device is Samsung's new lower-cost Fan Edition phone, available in Graphite, Pistachio, and Blueberry, and comes with Galaxy AI features and Samsung ecosystem support. The promotion is expected to end once the phone officially launches tomorrow.
A new analysis argues that Google's Pixel phones have plateaued, with yearly hardware and software updates offering little meaningful improvement over previous generations. The piece contends that fragmented AI features, scattered branding, and incremental design changes are making Pixels feel unexciting compared to rivals.
Daniel Lubetzky, who built Kind Snacks and sold it for $5 billion in 2020, told Business Insider he often survived on just four to five hours of sleep while scaling the company, sacrificing exercise and sunlight in the process. The Shark Tank investor said the grind visibly affected his health and appearance, leading him to compare himself to a 'phantom raccoon.'
A leaked internal Microsoft spreadsheet revealed that one employee in the Customer and Partner Solutions unit racked up $28,000 in AI usage costs over a 28-day period, dwarfing the company-wide median of about $300. The disclosure came after Microsoft added an 'AI $ Usage Per Month' tracking column to its compensation data, exposing wide disparities in spending among roughly 350 employees who reported figures.
Debian held a project-wide vote on whether to restrict AI-assisted contributions and settled on a policy of neutrality: the project neither endorses nor bans generative AI tools for code, packaging, or documentation. Contributors remain fully responsible for the quality, legality, and maintainability of anything they submit, whether or not AI tools were used to help produce it.
The Debian Project has voted to allow developers to use generative AI tools when producing contributions to the project, provided the resulting work meets Debian's existing standards. The decision clarifies that contributors remain fully responsible for reviewing, testing, and validating any AI-assisted code or documentation before submission, regardless of the tools used to create it.
Adobe is rolling out a beta update to Photoshop featuring a new optional 'AI Assisted Editor' view that consolidates its AI tools—prompt-based editing, background removal, and image extension—into one toolbar. The update also introduces a markup tool letting users sketch or highlight areas to guide AI edits instead of typing prompts, plus an upgraded 'Instruct Edit with Masks' feature powered by Firefly Image 5 that understands full image context.
Capital F, an all-female-led venture firm founded by Margaret Coblentz and Dawn Dobras, has closed its first fund at $17 million. The firm plans to invest in women's health, digital commerce, and AI tools, sectors it says are shaped heavily by women's needs and behavior. Nearly 80% of the fund's limited partners are women, including former retail executives like Jenny Ming and Marta Benson.
Anthropic now shares a single memory system between Claude and its Cowork tool, so context from past chats carries over automatically when switching between them. Claude also updates its memory in real time without needing explicit prompts, and users get new controls to view, edit, delete or pause stored memories in Settings.