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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…
The EU AI Act, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, becomes fully enforceable on 2 August 2026, with fines up to €35 million or 7% of global annual turnover for non-compliance, and organisations deploying AI agents must classify t…
Instagram, owned by Meta, has blocked search terms like 'rizz' and 'cold approach' but its recommendation algorithm continues to serve videos of men using Meta glasses to film women without consent, according to a Busine…
CNBC's Jim Cramer said investors shouldn't be scared away by the big rallies in CrowdStrike and Palo Alto, arguing their earnings can justify higher valuations as AI threats grow. He highlighted that both cybersecurity c…
Sainsbury's paused its AI-powered surveillance cameras after a shopper was ejected from a store, highlighting the high false-positive rates of computer vision systems in retail. The incident underscores the need for huma…
Anthropic has announced a new text watermarking system for its Claude AI model that alters outputs in a way the company says allows it to assess the probability any block of text was generated by Claude, a technique simi…
OpenAI has introduced Computer History, a new opt-in feature for ChatGPT's macOS desktop app that tracks clicks, keystrokes, and other inputs to train its AI model, raising privacy concerns. The feature, announced by pro…
European Central Bank economists warned on Aug. 17 that the surge in artificial intelligence stocks is likely to end in a sharp market correction, with euro-area households holding around €440 billion in US technology eq…
Anthropic's safety rhetoric masks a business model that restricts open-source AI development, according to a critique by X user Ahmad. The post argues that Anthropic uses safety and security to justify opaque model behav…
Gordon Brander, writing in his newsletter, argues that large language models (LLMs) now allow computers to extrapolate user intent from vague instructions, shifting the burden onto practitioners to foresee unintended con…
An expert witness hired by 3M used ChatGPT to write significant portions of his report defending the company in a lawsuit over a 2020 Houston explosion that killed three people and destroyed roughly 200 homes. Court docu…
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) warned on Monday that senior lawyers supervising junior staff remain accountable when false AI-generated citations are presented to courts, potentially breaching regulatory requi…
Instagram remains flooded with creepy smart glasses content a month after Meta Platforms Inc. vowed to crack down on it, according to a Business Insider report that identified dozens of 'prank' and 'pickup artist' videos…
Sainsbury's has suspended its live AI facial recognition technology at its East Dulwich store after customer Matt Arnold was wrongly flagged as a shoplifter and forced to leave. Both Sainsbury's and technology provider F…
An investigation by 404 Media, which placed an AirTag inside a shipment of rare books, found that Amazon buys printed books in bulk, scans them for AI training data, and destroys them at a Las Vegas warehouse operated by…
CGTrader, an online marketplace for 3D assets, reports that AI-generated models now make up one in six listings but generate only $1 out of every $90 in revenue, indicating buyers assign almost no economic value to AI-ge…
World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture backed by President Donald Trump, is partnering with Hong Kong-based AI platform WorldClaw, which offers access to roughly 90 AI models, including 43 from Chinese companies suc…
AI companies are buying used books in bulk, potentially for destructive scanning to train large language models, according to reports from used bookstores and a recent court ruling. Barter Books in Northumberland, Englan…
Hany Farid, cofounder of deepfake detection company GetReal and developer of PhotoDNA, discussed the evolution of AI-generated imagery and its impact on perceptions of reality in a 404 Media podcast episode. Farid, whose…