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A new arXiv preprint (arXiv:2608.15382v1) proposes a causal knowledge graph-based evaluation framework for healthcare large language models (LLMs), tested in a cardiovascular pilot. The framework's integrated grounding c…
TikTok is using an AI clone of a brand founder for advertisements, treating the founder's identity as a set of model weights to generate personalized ads at scale. The platform leverages a few minutes of source footage t…
A candy brand discovered that TikTok created an AI clone of its founder to run ads, according to a video report. The clone was used in advertisements without the founder's consent, raising concerns about unauthorized AI-…
Anthropic announced on August 12 that it would embed an imperceptible watermark in text generated by Claude, prompting some users to object because it would catch them using the AI at work and in classes, according to Te…
A developer voices that AI is draining the joy and meaning from side projects, as new software releases feel like wrappers and LLMs can explain, implement, and optimize concepts in seconds. The author questions whether s…
Epoch AI estimates the effective stock of quality-adjusted public text at roughly 300 trillion tokens, which frontier developers could exhaust between 2026 and 2032, signaling the end of the scrape-first era. Legal and r…
A new audit of the EnterpriseOps Gym benchmark found that fixing environment issues in the 'Teams' domain raised GPT-5.6 Luna's score from 26.2% to 100% on 61 tasks, revealing that many agent failures are actually benchm…
AI firms are buying and destroying second-hand books in the UK to train models, with Anthropic's 'Project Panama' leading the effort. The practice, which involves stripping spines for rapid scanning and recycling the rem…
Meta has filed a patent for Ray-Ban-style smart glasses equipped with facial recognition technology, sparking widespread discussion in early 2024. The glasses feature an on-device NPU and Secure Enclave for local face-te…
Chinese workers are turning their bosses into AI-powered virtual pets as a stress-relief trend, with customization services costing 9.9 yuan (US$1.5) to several hundred yuan. Experts warn that creating AI pets from real …
John Gruber, writing on Daring Fireball, argues that Anthropic's watermarking of AI-generated text in Claude inherently degrades prose quality, despite claims to the contrary, and objects to its secret application. He ci…
The article by Wira Indra Kusuma argues that the internet's design has eliminated the ability to log off, turning online from a place with exits into a pervasive layer, and that this structural loss is a design responsib…
Sainsbury's has paused its Facewatch AI-assisted facial recognition system at its East Dulwich store after the technology wrongly flagged paying customer Matt Arnold, who was asked to leave on August 6. The retailer attr…
According to a working paper by Jana Friedrichsen, Julia Schwarz, and Michel Clement, consumers prefer AI-generated music until they are told it is AI, at which point their preferences shift. The researchers conducted th…
A Financial Times analysis of the 60 largest US data centers under construction by Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft estimates they will produce 101.5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually once fully operational, equ…
Friend, a wearable AI pendant launched in 2025, continuously records audio, video, and biometric data, raising privacy concerns under laws like Illinois' BIPA. The company's privacy policy (v2) states it collects biometr…
A prespecified randomized algorithm audit of seven large language models (six open-weight and gpt-4o-mini) found that reputation signals dominate physician recommendations, with raising a rating from 3.9 to 4.7 increasin…
Satya Nadella and other Microsoft officers face a new copyright shareholder derivative lawsuit, Vladimir Gusinsky Revocable Trust v. Nadella, filed by the same law firm Cotchette, Pitre & McCarthy LLP that brought the ea…
AI companions marketed as therapeutic tools for neurodivergent children, such as Curio's AI plushies and Mattel's OpenAI-enabled Barbies, risk emotional harm when hardware fails or software changes, according to research…
A critique published on the blog 'Aporia' argues that the concept of 'aligned ASI' functions as a thought-terminating cliché, allowing AI developers and safety researchers to avoid hard political, economic, and moral que…