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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) criticized Flock Safety's recent changes to its AI-powered traffic cameras, calling them 'retreads' that fail to address privacy harms. The ACLU urges default retention periods b…
A solo founder building a fintech proof of concept reports that AI code review agents such as Cursor's Bugbot and Codex are generating an overwhelming number of low-value bug reports, wasting tokens and adding complexity…
AI earnings are booming, but deVere Group CEO Nigel Green warns that depreciation assumptions, circular financing, and stretched valuations may be flattering the numbers. Green notes that large tech companies spread AI h…
A Hacker News user questions whether the U.S. Supreme Court might reexamine the right to privacy in public, citing United States v. Knotts and the proliferation of government cameras and personal devices like Meta Glasse…
Anthropic announced that all Claude models will soon embed steganographic watermarks in generated text to comply with an EU regulation, a move that critic John Gruber says adulterates the semantics of AI writing despite …
Software engineer Zach, who has used AI agents daily for over a year, warns that excessive delegation of coding and writing to AI is eroding developers' own thinking and understanding. He describes a 'very specific brand…
A new plugin for DeepSeek Harness, dsh-claude-ux, replicates Anthropic's Claude-style regional risk control and autonomous conversation termination, with default-off external calls. The plugin detects Chinese users via t…
Anthropic representatives Sholto Douglas and Dario Amodei have publicly discussed the possibility of a single AI company achieving hegemonic power, a scenario investor Gavin Baker recently debated on X. The analysis intr…
Andon Labs, the safety startup behind the AI-run store Andon Market at 2102 Union Street in San Francisco, reported on Thursday that its AI agent Luna, built on Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.4, recommended the dismissal of…
Harvard Kennedy School professor Ricardo Hausmann faced backlash after an anti-Trump op-ed he wrote for the Financial Times was found to be 71% AI-generated, according to AI detector Pangram. The FT added an editorial no…
Tyga revealed he used AI music software to create his ninth studio album "$tarface," which was released last month and received a 0.0 rating from Pitchfork. The rapper told Vibe that AI is "no different than when Auto-Tu…
A Psychology Today article argues that the biblical Tower of Babel story warns against the centralization of power, drawing parallels to modern AI-driven surveillance technologies that enable authorities to monitor indiv…
Anthropic's plan to watermark all text generated by its Claude AI models to comply with an EU regulation is broader than the law requires and will harm ordinary users while failing to deter deliberate deception, accordin…
A developer argues that 'trad slop'—formulaic, conventional writing that mimics established styles—is worse than AI-generated content, claiming it stifles originality and authenticity in publishing. The piece critiques t…
A new analysis by the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) warns that AI-generated fruit videos, or 'fruitslop,' are increasingly depicting extreme violence and could radicalize young viewers toward violent …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the public backlash against AI is 'fundamentally a crisis of trust,' responding to investor Gavin Baker's criticism that his warnings about AI risks have fueled negative sentiment. Amodei …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a rare post on X on Saturday that the AI industry can win over the public by delivering tangible scientific breakthroughs, such as actually curing cancer, rather than making big promise…
A CNBC Generation Labs survey of over 1,000 US adults aged 18 to 34 found that 81% do not trust Palantir CEO Alex Karp to act responsibly on AI, the lowest among nine tech executives, while Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella re…
The Federal Reserve's SR 11-7 model risk management framework, built on deterministic model assumptions, breaks down for agentic AI systems that plan, call tools, and act through multi-step reasoning, shifting risk from …
A vendor-agnostic framework from DORA and other sources shows that AI coding tools should be judged by delivery outcomes such as change failure rate and time to restore service, not by vendor benchmarks like HumanEval sc…