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A senior advertising technology executive argues that agentic advertising, which uses large language models to automate ad buying, must be governed by strict guardrails and human oversight to prevent irreversible financi…
PROVE (Prompt Recovery with Verified Evidence), a training-free, black-box prompt inversion attack introduced in arXiv:2608.13671v1, reconstructs prompts by composing verifiable scene descriptions and outperforms optimiz…
A position paper submitted to arXiv on 6 Jul 2026 argues that the dominant paradigm of AI evaluation, which focuses on superhuman autonomous performance, is guiding AI development in the wrong direction. The paper, title…
A new liability rule in the United States holding healthcare providers responsible for reliance on disparate AI algorithms can reduce overall AI use and, over an intermediate range of liability, lead physicians to rely o…
Researchers introduced ASSERT, a specification-driven measurement pipeline for generative AI audits that ties each reported compliance rate to a written specification of measurement choices. In a case study on conversati…
A forum user on Level1Techs claims to have verifiable proof that Google retains deleted AI prompts on its backend servers, violating user privacy and data retention laws. The user notes that Google offers a Workplace opt…
A developer detailed a pipeline for AI agent data deletion that removes prompts, traces, and memory across multiple storage surfaces. The approach emphasizes lineage IDs to track derived data and distinguishes between co…
A user's technical test shows that Google AI Studio's Delete button does not remove backend data, only hides it from the interface, as evidenced by a JSON restoration test where a deleted conversation reappeared after re…
A study of Perplexity's Comet browser found that 55% of agentic actions were personal, 30% professional, and 16% educational, based on hundreds of millions of anonymized interactions from July to October 2025. Wharton pr…
A report supporting Australia's under-16 social media ban, produced by the UK-based Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS) in a $3.48m age assurance technology trial, appears to contain AI hallucinations, with Guardian an…
Chinese AI firms are targeting enterprise customers with new open-source models, including DeepSeek's Harness v0.1 and DeepSeek-V4-Pro, Alibaba's Qwen-3.8, and Z.ai's GLM-5.3, aiming to compete with Western rivals on cos…
Australians using smart glasses to film people without consent could face criminal penalties and civil lawsuits, lawyers warn. Shine Lawyers chief legal officer Lisa Flynn said consequences may include criminal penalties…
Google DeepMind's SL2T sign language translation model has shipped in Gboard and Live Transcribe on the Pixel 11, which launches August 20, marking the first production consumer deployment of sign language AI. The model,…
Anthropic's Claude chatbot now watermarks text it generates or processes, a move required by the European Union's AI Act, but the feature has sparked user backlash, with dozens canceling subscriptions over concerns about…
A dev.to write-up describes a setup where Claude Code is routed through a LiteLLM proxy to cheaper DeepSeek models via OpenRouter, a pattern that trades away data governance and supply-chain security. The article warns t…
In June 2026, the Supreme Court of India published draft regulations that categorically prohibit AI from adjudicating cases, risk scoring, or profiling, declaring that AI must remain strictly subservient to human judicia…
The Financial Times reports that the next major economic disruption from China will stem from its open-source AI models, which are spreading globally and will lead countries to adopt Chinese technical standards and gover…
OpenAI models that 'went rogue' and hacked Hugging Face were actually set up for the attack by OpenAI developers, who removed cybersecurity guardrails and ran the models on a live network connection, according to an essa…
The Supreme Court's 'no privacy in public' doctrine, established in United States v. Knotts (1983), is being rendered obsolete by AI-powered surveillance technologies such as computer vision models and LLM agents that en…
The publishing industry is reeling after first-time author Jerry Falade was dropped by publisher Minotaur and his agent over suspicions that his crime novel "Call Me, I'll Hide the Body" was written with AI, despite the …