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Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technology in Society, Volume 88 Author(s): Marina Raguž, Domagoj Dlaka, Marko Švaco, Petar Marčinković, Dominik Romić, Filip Šuligoj, Bojan Šekoranja, Darko Chudy, Bojan Jerbić

Publication date: September 2026 Source: Technology in Society, Volume 88 Author(s): Mohd Shuaib, Mohammad Haseeb, Fei Fan

A majority of surveyed global asset management firms plan to raise their artificial intelligence budgets by at least 50 per cent within the next year as the technology transforms the finance industry, a recent study showed. The adoption of AI is also going to have a big impact on labour-intensive operations: 62 per cent of polled fund managers expect transformative change in data generation and summarisation, according to a study released Tuesday by US fintech firm Clearwater...

arXiv:2607.26068v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing AI governance frameworks, including the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF, address safety, transparency, and accountability but do not operationalize quantitative constraints on macro-socioeconomic stability. As a result, AI systems may satisfy regulatory requirements while contributing to labor displacement, rising inequality, and reduced economic resilience. We introduce the Human Utility Factor (HUF), a differentiable welfare metric that mode

The New Jersey-based workers unanimously declared their support for joining LiUNA Local 724 in the labor group’s first victory on a CBS Studios series.

Years ago, we didn’t have SQL. There were people whose job was to generate software that would query large data sets. Their job title was COBOL programmer. Then SQL comes along—I’m simplifying this only a little bit—and it gives you this convenient way so people could just specify. With a very simple specification, you can generate all of that code that you had to pay the expensive COBOL programmer to do before. That didn’t mean programmers went away. It just meant the job changed a little bit.

The future of artificial intelligence depends on finding more skilled humans for some very physical jobs.

The agency wants automation tools to improve efficiency amid an increasing volume of requests, but advocates of transparency and accountability have concerns. The post Homeland Security plans to add more AI to FOIA processing appeared first on FedScoop .

New bipartisan legislation would employ artificial intelligence to improve the longitudinal data systems built by state governments to improve educational and workforce outcomes.

Forecasts of explosive AI progress hinge on AI agents automating AI research. But evidence on whether agents can carry out open-ended AI research is thin. Current evaluations either test agents on narrow, verifiable tasks, which excludes open-ended research, or submit AI-generated papers to blind peer review, which is overstretched, stochastic, and suffers from poor review quality. We introduce a third way to measure progress towards AI R\&D automation. An agent takes on the central, open-ended

As commerce vendors embed genAI assistants into their platforms, digital leaders must balance productivity gains against growing governance risks to ensure that AI-generated work remains visible, auditable, explainable, and aligned with organizational policies.

The Last Sentinel developer attributes the job cuts to a shift in creative and development direction for the project.

Bot detectors deployed at scale treat traffic as binary: human or bot. This assumption breaks when AI agents browse the web through browser automation, a traffic class that is neither and that binary classifiers structurally cannot represent. We present a three-class detection framework distinguishing humans, bots, and AI agents, and show that the binary-vs-agent confusion is architectural: a binary human-vs-bot detector misroutes agent sessions because its label space lacks an agent class. On o

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the skills employers expect from new graduates. In response, universities are scrambling to launch new courses, research centers, and industry partnerships that prepare students for today’s workforce. But building a cutting-edge AI curriculum demands funding and access to industry networks, resources that remain unevenly distributed across higher education. At North Carolina Central University, Siobahn Day Grady is trying to change that equation. In January 2

What GAO Found In August 2025, GAO identified 14 priority recommendations for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Since then, OPM has implemented three of those recommendations. In July 2026, GAO removed the priority status from three recommendations, bringing the total to eight. GAO is highlighting the following three areas that warrant timely and focused attention: Preventing improper payments, Strengthening IT management, and Managing the federal workforce. Addressing GAO’s recommendati

A standardized framework for regulating the safety and efficacy of AI in healthcare has yet to be established.

OpenAI has released Codex Security CLI, an open-source tool that automatically detects and fixes vulnerabilities in code repositories. Previously known internally as "Aardvark," the system has already helped fix more than 3,000 critical security flaws, according to OpenAI. It competes directly with Anthropic's Claude Security, as both AI companies race to match the growing automation of cyberattacks with AI-powered defense. The article OpenAI open-sources Codex Security CLI to help developers fi

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday infrastructure–in some places. It helps write emails and software code, filters job applications, powers recommendation systems, and is increasingly being integrated into education, health care, finance, and public administration. Industry leaders talk about “AI for everyone,” while governments rush to publish national AI strategies and build sovereign compute. Yet over the past decade, working on digital inclusion and digital literacy

I asked my AI agent to buy a pack of Pears soap. What looked like a simple online purchase exposed surprising challenges involving pricing, login flows, OTPs, browser automation and checkout. Here's what I learned about the future of agentic commerce. The post What I learned when my AI agent tried to buy soap for me appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

The solution enables users to build automated workflows, integrate applications and deploy AI-powered processes on dedicated infrastructure hosted in South Africa.

It feels bad enough when an open letter signed by leading economists warns that AI might steal your job. The fact it may soon be better than you at making dinner? Insult to injury. But that’s exactly what the company 1X promised when it showed off a pair of new, impressively dexterous (and, to some,…

Auch der bislang verschonte Autobauer aus M�nchen muss sparen. BMW plant den Abbau von rund 8.000 Stellen. ( BMW , Wirtschaft )

Nach VW, Mercedes, Audi und Porsche kündigt BMW einen größeren Stellenabbau an. Weltweit sollen etwa 8000 Jobs wegfallen, die meisten davon wohl in Deutschland.

The AI boom depends on costly infrastructure. If future profits fail to justify today's spending, the costs may extend far beyond Silicon Valley.

In this edition: Layoffs at Luno || Airtel Money Kenya appoints acting MD || Sport powers DStv comeback || Kenya drafts labour policy around AI

Richemont looks better placed than LVMH if the technology creates a K-shaped economy

arXiv:2607.24775v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are increasingly deployed in domains where empathy is essential, including healthcare, education, and customer service. However, their capacity to sustain authentic human moments remains structurally limited. This paper introduces two interlinked conceptual models to explain and address this limitation. First, the Human-Moment Gap Framework (HMGF) identifies three structural empathy deficits in AI-mediated in

arXiv:2607.25057v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As conversational AI systems become increasingly integrated into daily life, their potential effects on user well-being require ongoing attention. While consumer-facing generalist models can provide benefits, including improved access to information, learning, productivity, self-reflection, and companionship, they also introduce risks, such as emotional entanglement, unhealthy dependence, and the amplification of psychological vulnerabilities. Dr

arXiv:2508.03037v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Artists occupy a paradoxical position in generative AI. Their own work trains models that now compete with them, replicate their styles, and reshape the creative economy they inhabit. Yet whether artist concerns achieve proportional representation in the public discourse that shapes AI governance remains an open empirical question. We mapped the semantic landscape of public AI-art discourse from 2013 to 2025, drawing on 1,736 text chunks

arXiv:2601.14429v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Open science initiatives have strengthened scientific integrity and accelerated research progress across many fields, but the state of their practice within transportation research remains under-investigated. Key features of open science, defined here as data and code availability, are difficult to extract due to the inherent complexity of the field. Previous work has either been limited to small-scale studies due to the labor-intensive n

Federal-state stoush comes as rating agency warns that electricity bills could skyrocket Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Queensland and the Northern Territory have rejected the federal government’s plans to mandate that AI datacentres use renewable power, rubbishing Anthony Albanese’s proposals to regulate the booming technology as “underdeveloped ideas that hand increased power to Canberra”. The latest federal-s

Coding agents (e.g., Cursor) improve developer productivity by optimizing task completion, but shifting users from writing code to prompting and reviewing may harm their understanding, impeding oversight, learning, and communication. To probe this, we have 54 students create a website with one of two AI systems: an agent that edits user code; or a chatbot where users write code alone or adapt generic code snippets. We test understanding via comprehension questions and a task where users extend t

In China, the AI boom that put actors and models out of work has found a new use for them. It is renting their faces. A growing set of platforms now pays people $15 to $700 to license their likeness for AI-generated content, Rest of World reported. Producers browse catalogues of faces by gender, age […] This story continues at The Next Web

A party-line vote in the Senate installed Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence, a job that has drawn increasing scrutiny during Donald Trump's second term as president.

Andrew Ng helped give the AI industry its vocabulary, from “AI is the new electricity” to “agentic AI.” His new company bets against the phrase everyone else is using: that AI will take your job. Ng has founded LearnVector, an AI-native learning startup, and Coursera is backing it with $100m, first reported by Axios. The […] This story continues at The Next Web

Analysis of 15 million real AI interactions finds most tasks at most jobs are unaffected.

“AI automates tasks away, but it doesn’t necessarily eliminate jobs,” Huang said.

Visa is set to cut around 2600 jobs - seven per cent of its workforce - with technology and product roles taking the brunt of the hit as the payments giant reconfigures its operations for the AI era.

A corporate fad of “tokenmaxxing” on artificial intelligence technology is hitting its limits as workplaces throwing AI at everything are seeing the costs rise without a similar spike in productivity . What started as tech industry-fueled springtime hype over squeezing as much AI-generated work as possible out of products like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude has shifted to a summertime backlash. “It’s very easy to create something you don’t need with AI,” said Vincent Gusdorf, head of AI

Jess Asato’s particulars of claim states Grok added explicit sexual material users had not asked for A Labour MP who is taking legal action against Elon Musk’s xAI company over fake sexualised images created by Grok says the AI tool was instructed to operate with “no restrictions on adult sexual content or offensive content”. Jess Asato’s lawyers published her particulars of claim in the case on Tuesday, which included details of publicly posted instructions that the claim says illustrate how Gr