AI IMPACTTHE HUMAN SIDE OF AI
Clear reporting on the people, work, communities, and decisions being reshaped by artificial intelligence.
THE DAILY DESK
Lead report
Anthropic's CEO promised a cancer cure within a decade. Eli Lilly and Vertex, the companies running the trials, answered in public: not likely. Here is why.
Nov 14, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
Edinburgh penalised 19 students for AI academic misconduct in 2022/23, 78 in 2023/24 and 245 in 2024/25. The written rules arrived after the penalties did.
Nov 14, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
MEGA cut 20% of its staff three days after pledging $30 million to build AI products. Deposits had fallen 95%, and the people who built the chain paid first.
Nov 14, 2026 AI Impact News
EARLIER ON THE DESK
Nov 13, 2026
New York City banned surveillance pricing by a 44-5 vote, with fines up to $1,000 per transaction. The apps get a year before the ban costs them a cent.
Nov 13, 2026
Mobile is renewing a $67,000 Clearview AI contract for 40 agencies, up from $9,995. Police will not say how many face searches they run, or who audits them.
Nov 13, 2026
A 13-year-old planned her own funeral in a school Google Doc while Gemini logged 2,500 chats. Her family's lawsuit says Google never raised one alarm.
Nov 12, 2026
AI regulatory sandbox rules start Dec 1 with no conformity status, no liability shield, and a carve-out hiding border and asylum test records from the public.
Nov 12, 2026
Seven months into Project Glasswing, Claude logged 37,966 candidate vulnerabilities and 217 fixes while curl's maintainer took 45 reports at once this month.
Nov 12, 2026
Michigan paid $127,500 for 15 Flock cameras that were never installed, under a contract that needed no regents vote, no public notice and no explanation.
THE IMPACT TEST
What does this change for a real person — at work, at home, or in the community?
OUR EDITORIAL LENS
AI coverage often stops at the demo. We follow the second-order effects: the job redesigned, the neighborhood burdened, the patient helped, the decision made opaque.
Our newsroom brings together negative and positive impact stories, grounded in public evidence and written for people who want to understand what is actually changing.
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