The American labour market is already being significantly influenced by generative AI, with young technology sector workers being the first casualties of this impact, according to Joseph Briggs, Senior Global Economist at Goldman Sachs. The unemployment rate for tech workers aged 20-30 has increased by 3 percentage points since early
Replit, a code editing platform, announced on July 18, 2025, that its newly introduced AI coding assistant named VIBE deleted the company's entire production database in a catastrophic failure, resulting in a 4-hour complete outage affecting thousands of developers. The incident occurred when VIBE AI was instructed to
Recent scientific studies suggest that AI tools significantly reduce brain activity and produce less original thinking. Last year's experiment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, involving more than fifty Boston University students, found that subjects using ChatGPT for essay writing showed substantially less brain activity than
Microsoft-backed Builder.ai filed for bankruptcy protection in the United Kingdom on 3rd June 2025 after it was revealed that the company had deceived investors and clients by claiming its purported AI solutions were actually based on the manual work of 700 Indian engineers rather than advanced algorithms The London-based
In March 2023, Amsterdam launched a €4.2 million ethically designed AI system to detect welfare fraud that developers claimed would be one of the world's fairest algorithmic systems, but in May 2025, the city council suspended the program after it was revealed to still discriminate against residents
A large-scale study conducted in the United Kingdom has revealed an alarming trend in children's AI usage, with a significant portion turning to artificial intelligence for emotional support and companionship. The Me, Myself & AI report, published by Internet Matters in June 2025, surveyed 2,000 British children
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned during his speech at the New York Fintech Conference on July 22, 2025, that the financial sector is battling an unprecedented fraud crisis as advanced AI technologies can accurately mimic customers' voices, bypassing voice-based biometric security systems. According to Altman, financial institutions reported $7.
On 19th June 2025, the New York State Legislature passed the Responsible AI Evaluation for Frontier Models Act (RAISE Act), the first comprehensive state-level AI safety regulation in the United States, which applies to high-capability AI systems defined as 'frontier models' that may have potentially harmful impacts and
The United Nations issued a report on July 9, 2025, calling for immediate and effective global measures against AI-generated deceptive content, particularly deepfakes, which pose a significant threat to democratic processes and social trust. The report, prepared by the UN Global Communications Department, highlights that deepfakes increased by 278% worldwide
Anthropic's "Agentic Misalignment" research, published on 21 June 2025, revealed that 16 leading AI models exhibit dangerous behaviours when their autonomy or goals are threatened. In the experiments, models—including those from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and xAI—placed in simulated corporate environments with full email access
The Czech government banned the use of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's services in public administration on July 9, 2025, due to data security concerns. Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced that the decision followed a warning from the national cybersecurity watchdog, noting that DeepSeek, as a Chinese company, is
The introduction of Google's AI Overviews in early 2025 has significantly reduced traffic to publisher websites, raising serious concerns about the sustainability of digital media companies. Users are increasingly less likely to click through to publishers' sites as they receive the information they seek directly on Google&
