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Google's AI advancements highlight a shift towards decentralized AI infrastructure, impacting tech ecosystems and crypto market dynamics. The post Google I/O 2026 kicks off with Gemini updates and a quieter battle for AI’s soul appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Schools can compromise children’s privacy, exposing them to potential identity fraud, harassment and AI exploitation, says Dr Claire Bessant It was concerning, but sadly unsurprising, to read a Guardian article reporting that UK schools are being blackmailed with AI-generated child sexual abuse images created from photos shared on school websites and social media pages (UK schools should remove pupils’ online photos as AI blackmail threat grows, say experts, 8 May). Lord Russell, in the 2024 debates on the data (use and access) bill, highlighted the potential for AI to be used to scrape images from school websites and social media. His comments were informed by research undertaken by Defend Digital Me, which found pupil data in publicly available AI training datasets. Welsh government guidance warns schools to “exercise great caution sharing images or videos of learners publicly on social media platforms due to the potential risk of the content being misused”. It notes that social medi

If I’ve learned anything in my decades covering the tech industry, it’s that we have a pathological obsession with “the engine.” In the 90s, we obsessed over clock speeds while our software crashed. In the 2000s, we obsessed over browser […] The post Lenovo Cracks the Code for Rapid AI Deployment with Massive Internal Expertise and Library Access appeared first on TechSpective.

“Almost right” is not good enough once AI starts making decisions inside a business. That warning came from SAP CEO Christian Klein at the Sapphire 2026 event in Orlando, FL. […] The post SAP CEO Says “Almost Right” Is Not Good Enough as Company Launches Autonomous Suite appeared first on AIwire.

Consumers feel less social pressure when lying to an AI chatbot, research finds, while human-like social cues reduce dishonest behavior.

An AI trained to use thermal images to detect whale body heat could help warn ships at risk of colliding with the marine mammals.

Advanced AI models with unique hacking capabilities like Mythos should bring federal agencies that handle the government's sensitive information to a "reflection point," according to a CIA tech official.

Glendale Community College president Tiffany Hernandez apologized for the mistakes and eventually offered many students a do-over. | Screenshot: YouTube The use of AI-powered tools to announce students as they walk on stage during graduation and commencement ceremonies has grown in popularity over the past few years, but it's not always succeeding at the one job it's there for. Many schools have switched to these systems as a way to ensure names are being pronounced correctly, but during a recent livestream of a Glendale Community College commencement ceremony in Phoenix, Arizona, the AI announcer mispronounced some names and skipped others entirely as a result of timing issues as graduates walked across the stage. The ceremony was paused at least twice in an attempt to fix the issues, whi … Read the full story at The Verge.