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A new 'humanizer' tool released on 20 June by Jie Ding, a machine-learning researcher at the University of Minnesota, can erase signs of AI-written text in papers and grant proposals. While some researchers praise it for…
A February 2024 announcement from Swedish fintech Klarna that its AI assistant now handles two-thirds of customer service chats caused the world's largest call center company to lose over a quarter of its value, highligh…
A developer is considering building a service that lets readers pay $15 per book to discuss it with an official AI clone of its author, trained on the author's works and interviews, with revenue shared with the author. T…
A 15-year-old Japanese high school student used ChatGPT to develop software that hacked Bandai Namco Filmworks' streaming service, deleting 46,812 subscriber accounts in November 2025. The teenager exploited a security f…
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5 on the same day as OpenAI's latest models, offering a faster, cheaper AI alternative without content restrictions. Musk claims Grok 4.5 outperforms Anthropic's Opus 4.8 at a fractio…
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) urged Meta to strengthen protections for users' name, image, likeness, voice and creative work after criticism of the new Muse image generator, stating that no one's likeness should be used …
A University of Georgia study found that AI chatbots provide inconsistent financial advice that varies by platform and by the gender and race of hypothetical users, with some bots recommending different emergency savings…
A developer built a forensic media analyzer that scores articles on rhetorical structure rather than political bias, drawing on rhetoric, framing theory, and propaganda detection. The tool, exemplified by Rhetoric Audit,…
China is using artificial intelligence, big-data analytics and algorithmic distribution to shape international narratives about Tibet, according to a Bitter Winter report citing a June conference in Lhasa attended by ove…
A startup has launched Ghost, an AI tool that provides real-time suggestions during job interviews. The tool listens to interview questions and prompts users with responses, raising concerns about fairness and authentici…
The U.S. Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to shut down its most powerful AI model, Claude Fable 5, to all foreign nationals, forcing the company to turn it off for all users worldwide just three days after its relea…
Anthropic's research reveals that language models can only verbally report about 10% of their internal activations, confined to a 'J-space' mental workspace. A new experiment using Natural Language Autoencoders (NLAs) on…
Meta announced it will disable the camera on Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses if the LED recording indicator is tampered with, while simultaneously testing prototype 'super-sensing' glasses that capture photos every few seconds a…
AI-generated code now accounts for 51-75% of weekly output at two-thirds of tech firms, with 45% of AI-written code containing security flaws, while the average time from bug disclosure to exploitation has collapsed from…
Alpha School, a $65,000-a-year private school that replaces teachers with AI tutors, is expanding to Santa Monica, claiming to outperform elite schools like Harvard-Westlake without cherry-picking students. The school us…
Meta launched Muse Image, its first image-generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, inside Meta AI across its consumer apps, including Instagram Stories in the US and WhatsApp in select countries. The model enab…
Researchers demonstrated a proof-of-concept exploit achieving remote code execution in Anthropic's Claude Code CLI and OpenAI's Codex CLI when used for defensive security assessments, using prompt injections embedded in …
OpenAI released GPT-Live, a new voice model that enables real-time, full-duplex conversations with ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to listen, speak, and search the web simultaneously. The company claims the model produces …
A contractor for Meta's AI datacenter in Cheyenne, Wyoming, flushed water contaminated with the rare bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii into public sewers, prompting the city to permanently revoke Meta's wastewater discharge…
Anthropic researchers discovered an internal activation subspace in Claude, called J-space, that functions as a digital equivalent to the human brain's global workspace, satisfying five key cognitive properties of consci…