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Debian Linux has adopted a moderate policy on generative AI, allowing its use under responsible conditions, despite a deeply divided community. The winning option, proposed by Marc Haber, states that Debian neither prohi…
Apple raised new concerns in a supplemental brief filed Monday in its trade-secret lawsuit against OpenAI, arguing that a former employee's use of company secrets and AI agents to learn simulations creates irreversible a…
The massive push to build more data centers for next-generation AI is facing local community backlash over power consumption, water usage, and rising electricity costs, prompting tech leaders to pivot toward 'green' data…
A customer support leader argues that AI support agents should be measured by queue-wide resolution time and satisfaction, not deflection rates, citing that deflection metrics can be gamed and don't reflect actual proble…
A daily AI news digest for September 2 lists 28 stories, including Nori Robotics' $1,688 humanoid robot for researchers, Runway's Solaris generating UI frames, and Google's Astra project progressing faster than expected.…
The United States filed a Statement of Interest in the OpenAI copyright litigation, arguing that training large language models on copyrighted works is 'exceedingly transformative' and constitutes fair use, while dismiss…
Former US Air Force Drone Technician Cian Westmoreland, in a research paper published September 1, 2026, by the Disruption Network Institute, exposes the 'Kill Cloud' as a distributed socio-technical architecture fusing …
Perplexity released Hybrid Compute for Mac, enabling its Perplexity Computer agent to split tasks between cloud frontier models and a local on-device model, with an on-device privacy gate deciding what data crosses to th…
LLM benchmark scores are becoming unreliable because models are trained on the same tests they are evaluated on, leading to inflated results that fail to reflect real-world performance, according to an industry analysis.…
A new arXiv preprint (2609.00192v1) introduces two bias-testing methodologies for Large Language Models (LLMs) and Visual-Language Models (VLMs) in autonomous vehicle pedestrian-yielding decisions, finding that these mod…
Meta has disabled the cameras on thousands of its AI glasses after detecting tampering with the recording indicator lights, affecting less than 0.1% of all Meta AI glasses sold. The company's newest software update close…
Databricks has released the Big Book of AgentOps, a guide to the people, processes, and technologies needed to deploy governed and reliable AI agents at enterprise scale, covering architecture, evaluation, observability,…
A federal judge ruled that the Department of Defense unlawfully retaliated against Anthropic by labeling the AI company a 'supply chain risk' after Anthropic refused to allow its Claude AI product to be used for mass sur…
A technical article outlines a multi-layered approach to AI alignment and security, emphasizing the need to combat reward hacking in RLHF and move toward mechanistic interpretability for deterministic safety. It details …
A developer argues that AI agents cannot reliably grade each other's outputs because stacked models produce correlated errors rather than ground truth. The post advocates splitting agent memory into automated bookkeeping…
At a Business Times roundtable on Aug 27, Singapore Business Federation CEO Kok Ping Soon warned that AI's easy availability could lead to 'cognitive surrender' among junior workers, urging employers, government, and uni…
Sir Robin Saxby, founding CEO and chairman of Arm, said in an exclusive video interview at the TechWorks S2S Summit 2026 in West London that today's semiconductor CEOs face a far tougher job navigating geopolitical tensi…
Jason Isbell and several other musicians filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts federal court against AI music company Suno, alleging it trained its models on artists' identities without consent in violation of right-of-public…
OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati failed to specify what data was used to train the company's video-generation model Sora during a Wall Street Journal interview, saying only that it used publicly available or l…
Musicians Jason Isbell, David Lowery, Guy Forsyth, and Eduardo Calle filed a class action lawsuit on Monday (Aug. 31) against AI music platform Suno, alleging that its name-indexing and style-replication features violate…