Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 with undisclosed distillation-prevention guardrails, prompting a public apology after Simon Willison exposed the hidden safeguards. Separately, a DN42 network adminis…
Anthropic apologized for a hidden guardrail in its Fable 5 AI model that silently sabotaged users' attempts to train other AI systems, and announced it will make the safeguard visible. The company ack…
Anthropic is reversing a policy that secretly degraded performance for researchers using its Claude Fable 5 model to build competing AI systems, the company told Wired. The restrictions, which were no…
Top AI voice Allie K. Miller told the WorkLab podcast that organizations should empower unconventional thinkers to experiment with AI, prioritizing speed and iteration over perfection. Miller argued t…
Loomcycle released v0.25 "agentic-ensemble" with three new primitives—Context op=time, Channel.await, and schedule max_fires—enabling scheduler-driven fan-out and fan-in for agent ensembles. Experimen…
Meta has embedded facial recognition code, internally called "NameTag," into the Meta AI smartphone app used by its smart glasses, according to investigations by Wired and the Electronic Frontier Foun…
Seattle city council committees unanimously approved a one-year moratorium on new large-scale data centers, with a full council vote scheduled for June 9, 2026. The pause, paired with a resolution to …
Meta has been actively developing a facial recognition tool called "NameTag" for its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, according to code found inside the Meta AI app and reviewed by Wired. The feature…
Serif fonts, traditionally associated with print and scholarship, are increasingly used by AI companies like Anthropic, Perplexity, and Runway in their branding and user interfaces to project warmth a…
Code for an unreleased facial recognition feature called "NameTag" was discovered in Meta's AI app, according to a Wired report. The feature, which is not currently enabled or available to customers, …
Philadelphia police are monitoring social media posts criticizing AI data centers, according to a December bulletin from the Delaware Valley Intelligence Center that flags "Butlerian jihad" memes and …
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan is on track to spend at least $1 million on AI inference this year, reflecting a broader trend of senior executives using large language models for tasks they find awkward t…
A weekly reading list shared by a blogger includes articles on AI detection failures in war propaganda, US law enforcement warnings about "anti-tech extremism," and the environmental impact of data ce…
AI-generated songs with near-identical names, lyrics, and melodies have flooded streaming platforms, amassing millions of streams on Spotify and TikTok and hitting No. 1 on iTunes in Germany and Austr…
US law enforcement is increasingly targeting AI resistance movements as extremist threats, aligning with Trump administration politicization of intelligence services. The move is ideological, aiming t…
Spotify launched over 650 narrated long-form magazine articles on Tuesday, available to Premium subscribers within their monthly audiobook allowance or for $1.99 each on the free tier. The curated col…
U.S. law enforcement agencies are monitoring a potential rise in "anti-tech violent extremism" fueled by growing public backlash against artificial intelligence, according to over 1,000 pages of unpub…
"A Fact A Day," an autonomous daily educational podcast that summarizes scientific and technological breakthroughs in about 60 seconds. The entire production process, from researching sources like MIT…