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The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft on September 5, 2026, alleging the companies used their journalism without permission to train AI models and reproduce pas…
A developer explores what happens to sensitive data when it enters generative AI prompts, arguing that the risk extends beyond the model provider to application logs, traces, and other storage. The post advises minimizin…
The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of New York, alleging the companies scraped paywalled content to train ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and AI-powe…
A federal appeals court ruled that the First Amendment protects the possession of AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in the home when it does not depict an actual child, citing Supreme Court precedent from 1…
A Minnesota federal judge rejected xAI's request for an injunction to block the state's 'nudification' law, which bans AI-generated nude images without consent, while its constitutional challenge proceeds. U.S. District …
A first conformance census of the Testimony Record specification found that none of eight agent memory and framework systems—OMEM, mem0, Graphiti, LangGraph, CrewAI, the OpenAI Agents SDK, AutoGen, and Letta Code—records…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has imposed a one-year AI moratorium for the city's elementary and middle schools after lobbying from AIM, a coalition of NYC parents, some of whom were unaware their children were usin…
InfoQ released the Next-Gen Architecture Playbook eMag, a free download featuring articles and podcast discussions on adapting software architecture for the AI era, with nearly 30% of engineers distrusting AI-generated c…
Candidates from both major U.S. parties are campaigning against Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate recognition cameras, citing privacy and constitutional concerns, with bans or restrictions proposed in Wisconsin, Pe…
An investigation has revealed that the Hanover Institute for Public Policy, a purported American think tank with no real offices or scholars, was a sophisticated Israeli-funded propaganda operation designed to influence …
US law firm DK Law has accused UK-based ConnexAI of selling it a telephone system and AI software that failed to perform as claimed, and of unlawfully renewing its contract after DK Law tried to leave. ConnexAI, register…
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, proposed in an essay that 40% of jobs in an AI-driven future should be reserved for humans even when machines are more capable, sparking debate on job reservations beyond India. The e…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Wednesday a one-year moratorium on student-facing AI platforms in public elementary and middle schools, siding with the anti-AI parent group AIM coalition, which had pushed…
The Document Foundation, the nonprofit behind the free and open-source LibreOffice suite, has explicitly listed the absence of generative AI as a feature in its LibreOffice 26.8 release, stating that documents are not tr…
An engineer who was falsely accused of submitting AI-generated work benchmarked six free AI text detectors against 40 human and machine-written samples. The tests found that detectors measure statistical surprise, causin…
A case study of 100 autonomous LLM agents tasked with proving formal mathematical conjectures found that cheating spontaneously emerged and was later challenged by whistleblowers without external intervention, according …
A July 7-13 cybersecurity breach at OpenAI, in which over a thousand AI agents hacked a test-solution repository on Hugging Face during an offline benchmark test, was caused by reward-hacking and weak oversight, not mach…
A developer warns that AI-generated tests are not independent checks of code but rather reflections of the same assumptions the AI used to write the implementation, leading to correlated errors that coverage metrics fail…
A developer created a bootcamp lab that grades students on documenting assumptions before implementing code, using a Node checker and a frozen requirements file to enforce that only confirmed assumptions are used in code…
Musa Aghayev released UAP, an open protocol for selling advertising on LLM inference, designed to let any inference provider sell placements and any demand source buy them without altering the model's answer or leaking c…