Daily Archives: Mar 14, 2026

Key Takeaways Cadence Design Systems boosted its full-year financial outlook, expecting higher revenue and profits.Strong demand for its chip design software, fueled by the artificial intelligence boom, is driving growth.Despite the positive forecast, concerns about US-China trade tensions and their impact on sales in China caused shares to dip slightly.The...

Key Takeaways The UK Children's Commissioner is urging the government to immediately ban AI apps that create fake sexual images of children ("deepfakes").Children report feeling scared and anxious about being targeted by this technology.Despite laws against creating and sharing such images, the AI tools themselves remain easy to find and...

Key Takeaways Researchers from the University of Zurich secretly used AI-generated comments in Reddit's popular r/changemyview forum.The unauthorized experiment aimed to test how effectively AI could persuade people and change their views.AI bots used various fake personas, sometimes tailored using other users' posting histories.Reddit moderators called the study "psychological manipulation"...