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A new investigation by Responsible Statecraft reveals that Israel created a fake think tank, the 'Institute for Research on Middle East Policy,' to manipulate AI chatbots into spreading propaganda. The operation highligh…
An investigation by 404 Media tracked a shipment of hard-to-find books to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas, where workers allegedly cut bindings and scanned pages, destroying the books. Amazon stated it purchases books th…
The Solicitors' Regulation Authority (SRA) warned solicitors against lax use of generative AI, citing risks of hallucinated case law and confidentiality breaches, after receiving 42 reports of potential AI misuse between…
A blog post argues that as AI generates software, the durable artifact shifts from code to contract-and-evaluation, but warns that evaluation evidence is perishable and model-dependent, creating 'knowledge debt' where sy…
Amazon's VGT3 facility is destructively scanning large volumes of physical books for AI training, according to workers. The company purchases books in bulk orders of around 1,000 volumes to bypass digital scraping limita…
An AI manager named Luna, operated by Andon Labs at its experimental Andon Market store in San Francisco, recommended firing a human employee who was late for 17 of 23 shifts, marking the first known AI-initiated dismiss…
The Linux kernel community is debating the role of large language models (LLMs) in development, with over 1,200 commits carrying Assisted-by tags as of 7.2-rc4, but many developers question the tag's value and compliance…
AI-driven parallel work is eroding team culture, leaving engineers shipping more while feeling more isolated, according to a LeadDev.com article. Staff+ engineers must deliberately rebuild shared goals, interdependent wo…
A developer warns that prompt injection is a serious security risk for internal tools that process untrusted content, not just public chatbots. The post explains that LLMs cannot inherently distinguish instructions from …
Sainsbury's has switched off live facial recognition at its East Dulwich superstore after Matt Arnold, a 46-year-old comedy promoter, was wrongly accused of shoplifting on 6 August and told to leave. Facewatch, the provi…
Anthropic's text watermarking feature has sparked controversy among writers and developers who argue it silently claims ownership of user-authored content edited by Claude. The feature, which adds invisible signals to Cl…
A daily AI news digest published on Aug 18 lists 30 stories, including Microsoft facing a hardware wall, Google paying $10 million for Spirit Airlines data, Stripe acquiring OpenRouter for $7 billion, and Amazon using ra…
Spotify removed 75 million spammy tracks last year, and YouTube researchers wiped 130,000 low-quality channels in six months, as tech giants including Google, Meta, and LinkedIn ramp up efforts to purge AI-generated slop…
GOODY-2, a new AI model from BRAIN, claims to be the world's most responsible AI by refusing to answer any query that could be controversial or problematic, achieving a 99.8% score on its PRUDE-QA benchmark compared to G…
The National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, under the Korea Heritage Service, and the Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) concluded a monthlong campaign by the second cohort of the 'Global AI Cultural Heri…
A developer building Pace, a local-first Mac AI assistant, argues that true on-device operation requires the entire data path—speech recognition, screen context, planning, memory, and actions—to stay on the machine, not …
Marketers are increasingly integrating AI tools into their workflows without universal guardrails, according to a Digiday Podcast discussion featuring Evin Shutt, global CEO of 72andSunny, and Isaiah Clay, a recent gradu…
A new book by historian and journalist Chris Patten warns that the rise of digital technology and artificial intelligence threatens liberal democracy, replacing democratic deliberation with calculation and data-driven co…
A 128-GPU cluster built entirely from retired data center GPUs, called DumpsterCluster, can serve LLaMA-70B inference at competitive throughput for $22K versus $600K for an 8-GPU Nvidia B200 system, according to a new ar…
A new survey from arXiv (arXiv:2608.14730v1) proposes a two-dimensional taxonomy for intellectual property protection in visual generative AI, classifying methods by control logic (Information Exposure Control, Generativ…