The Federal Trade Commission has initiated at least 13 enforcement actions since launching Operation AI Comply in September 2024, all targeting marketing deception rather than the behavior of autonomo…
A new survey from education research firm EAB found that the percentage of high school students using AI in their college application process jumped from 26% to 46% between the previous spring and thi…
At BSidesSF 2026, an autonomous agent running multiple AI models in parallel solved all 52 Capture The Flag challenges and won first place, with most challenges falling within minutes of release. The …
B3 Labs, operating as B3IQ, is targeting university researchers with rent-to-own NVIDIA GPU servers, requiring a 30% down payment and offering an 8% interest structure with a potential 47-month payoff…
A Northeastern/Berkeley team's True Thinking Score, surveying 11 open-weight reasoning models, found that 30–60% of reasoning steps on math benchmarks are 'decorative' — deleting them does not change …
A new community poll on AI alignment controversies has been launched by CaML, with a panel of 15 alignment researchers including Scott Alexander (ACX), David Manheim (ALTER), and Jeff Sebo (NYU) alrea…
Researchers from MIT, NYU, and Sakana AI replicated the Picbreeder experiment using vision-language model agents, finding that while AI can generate diverse images without predefined goals, it struggl…
UMA, a physical AI startup founded by former Tesla scientist Remi Cadène, unveiled the design of its first humanoid robot on Tuesday. The company is developing two systems: a dual-arm mobile industria…
A Psychology Today article argues that philosophy of mind is insufficient for understanding artificial intelligence, advocating for psychological and psychoanalytic approaches to grasp large language …
NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran warns that a potential AI crash could be more severe than the dot-com bust due to massive debt-financed physical infrastructure investments, and even if AI succe…
A developer warns that selfies, especially peace sign gestures, can expose fingerprints that AI tools can extract and replicate, enabling presentation attacks on biometric systems. Historical cases in…
A multi-university research team spanning NYU, Columbia, Princeton, University of Maryland, Harvard, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developed Latent Context Language Models (LCLMs), a syst…
A Stanford Law School study found that law professors preferred AI-generated answers to student questions over responses written by their peers in 75% of blind comparisons, challenging assumptions abo…
Researchers at NYU, in collaboration with David Chalmers and Pavel Izmailov, have discovered that reinforcement learning in language models recruits a functional "welfare axis" — a concept vector that…
The May 2026 FIRE Monthly Member Webinar, titled "So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast Ep. 272," featured FIRE executives Nico Perrino, Alisha Glennon, Greg Lukianoff, and Will Creeley discussing pres…
A philosophy PhD student at Cornell, Nikhil Dominic, has proposed that countries not in the AI production chain should treat AI like oil and establish sovereign wealth funds to avoid being sidestepped…