AI Fear & Greed Index
> Track the emotional sentiment of artificial intelligence news and community opinion. Get insights into market psychology and AI development trends.
> Signals Behind the Index
30-day trend, topic mix, story drivers, company mentions, and workforce impact signals.
30-Day Sentiment Path
2026-07-29 to 2026-08-27
AI Workforce Impact Tracker
Events are labeled by evidence strength, not assumed causality.
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Story Impact Cards
High-signal stories currently shaping the index.
Hallucinations, Watermarks, Removers, and a Squeezed Balloon
Risk, safety, misuse, privacy, or trust is the main sentiment driver.
The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
New AI capability, model behavior, or agent tooling is driving attention.
Stop Giving Your AI Agent a Search Box and Start Giving It Typed Tools, Hard Bounds, and a Gate It Cannot Talk Past
New AI capability, model behavior, or agent tooling is driving attention.
How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face
New AI capability, model behavior, or agent tooling is driving attention.
The Download: the Kids issue arrives, and Bill Gates reveals his AI fears
The article points to legal, policy, or government pressure around AI.
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Latest articles grouped by dominant signal.
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The Download: the Kids issue arrives, and Bill Gates reveals his AI fears
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Raised on AI
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AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better?
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Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?
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AI won’t replace radiologists, but it will dramatically change their jobs
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Apple's new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development
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AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
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AI Slop Is Ruining Cute Animals on the Internet
Pet owners, rescue agencies, and wildlife groups are calling for new safeguards as AI makes it harder to tell whether animals, from polar bears to house cats, are real or fake.
Apple Mac Mini M6 and Mac Studio M5 Ultra: Specs, Price, Release Date
Apple’s Mac Mini and Mac Studio have been tough to buy for months, but updated versions have arrived. Both include new chips optimized for AI, with the M6 Mac Mini getting a $200 price bump.
It Should Be Harder to Apply for a Job. No, Really
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Spirit Airlines Wants to Sell Its Data to Google. Former Flight Attendants Are Freaked Out
“It never crossed my mind that they would be so bold as to sell our private data for AI,” says one former Spirit Airlines flight attendant.
Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents
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Is Agentic AI Just Automation?
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Hallucinations, Watermarks, Removers, and a Squeezed Balloon
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Jensen Huang says Nvidia achieved AGI, again — not that it matters
On Nvidia's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had "achieved AGI," one of the tech industry's ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing.
Sony finally has a cheaper OLED to compete with midrange Samsung and LG TVs
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In a swipe at Tesla, Waymo says ‘cameras… aren’t enough’
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OpenAI’s executive exodus has one big winner
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Hugging Face’s new robot is an adorable rollerskating duck
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Plaud is launching AI earbuds
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The Download: inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US
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The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
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How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face
Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.
AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
Report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.
Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text
The AI that powers Gboard's Rambler is coming to more Google products, including Chrome.
OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent
Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”
Stop Touching Your Keyboard. Use This AI-Powered Microphone Instead
The Relay Q, due next year, is the latest attempt to reposition voice as the most seamless method for human-computer interaction.
The UK Power Grid Has a Phantom Data Center Problem
The UK’s energy regulator is using a variety of tricks to keep speculative data center projects from plugging into the power grid. The country’s AI ambitions hang in the balance.
What We Still Don’t Know About OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack
The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why it didn't see this fiasco coming.
Candidates Are Signing a Pact Promising Action on Data Centers and AI Safety
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Enterprise AI's real risk isn't autonomous agents. It's the complexity between them.
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When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer
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How to Work with AI Coding Agents
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