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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues that the current backlash against AI is fundamentally a crisis of trust, driven by the opacity of large language models and their tendency to hallucinate. He advocates for interpretabili…
Venice AI, the privacy-focused generative AI platform founded by Erik Voorhees, has reached $100 million in annualized revenue run-rate, up from over $70 million about a month earlier. The company, which raised a $65 mil…
A Psychology Today article by a contributor, reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D., argues that artificial intelligence is disrupting the traditional link between written artifacts and the human minds that produce them, forc…
Wolf Haus Games, founded by Hollywood veterans Joe Dietsch, Louie Gibson, Michael Abbott, and Dooma Wendschuh, is developing Join Us, a large-scale open-world cult simulator, with a team of just 12 people and no generati…
Elon Musk-owned SpaceXAI, formerly xAI, faces an expanded federal lawsuit alleging its AI chatbot Grok was used to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM), with two new plaintiffs joining the case and Stability AI ad…
ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association signed an agreement on August 17, 2026, to strengthen copyright safeguards on ByteDance's Seedance video and Seedream image AI models, following a cease-and-desist letter the …
AI systems consume enormous resources, and their widespread adoption is accelerating environmental damage without delivering commensurate benefits, according to a critical essay. The author argues that current large lang…
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has urged U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank to reject xAI's attempt to block the state's ban on AI 'nudification,' which took effect August 1, arguing the law is narrowly tailored…
A study on arXiv found that AI detectors' accuracy varies dramatically with vocabulary complexity: when essays by non-native English speakers were simplified, false positive rates jumped from 5.19% to 56.65%, while enhan…
Anthropic will watermark all text generated by its Claude chatbot to comply with a European Union regulation requiring detectable markers on AI-generated content starting in December, embedding a hidden pattern in the mo…
Google is letting users of its Gemini and Flow apps turn off the visible watermark on AI-generated images, video, and music, while keeping invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata embedded. The new Media Watermark …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said open weights are "nowhere near a sufficient solution" for AI independence, citing a hard infrastructure ceiling that limits developers. His remarks, reported by The New Stack, push back on…
The London School of Economics' executive education programme on AI Law, Policy, and Governance, completed by Karl Anthony Borg, forms the basis of a seven-lesson beginner's guide to AI governance. The guide explains tha…
Amazon is destroying rare books to train its AI models, according to a 404 Media investigation that tracked a rare book to Amazon's VGT3 facility in Las Vegas. Amazon confirmed it purchases books through commercial chann…
Terry Benzel, managing director of USC Information Sciences Institute within the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the USC Stevens School of Computing and AI, is running for 2027 president-elect of the IEEE Computer …
ByteDance signed a memorandum of understanding with the Motion Picture Association on August 17, marking the first formal copyright agreement between Hollywood's trade group and an AI company. The deal covers ByteDance's…
A young researcher on MathOverflow raised questions about how the mathematical community should adapt to AI, asking whether AI-generated proofs should be published, how to handle undisclosed AI use, and whether human mat…
Wiz Research disclosed that an autonomous AI security tool exploited a critical CI/CD vulnerability in Snowflake's GitHub Actions workflow, which was introduced by a commit co-authored by GitHub Copilot Autofix. The AI-g…
Intelligent Relations co-founder and chief business officer Stamatis N. Astra said the key difference between AI agents and bots is autonomy, with agents handed a goal, memory, and skills to work toward an outcome over t…
Gartner projects that 40% of enterprise applications will embed AI agents by 2026, up from less than 5% in 2025, widening the AI governance control framework gap as traditional controls fail on autonomous systems. The ga…