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Criminal groups are automating payment fraud using fake websites, large-scale operations, and forced labor, with agentic AI poised to further streamline credential theft and password cracking. A Capco survey reveals cons…
Hundreds of supporters have donated over $23,000 to the legal defense of US Air Force engineer Jeffrey Sovern, who faces 13 counts of destruction of property and other charges for allegedly damaging Flock license plate c…
The NHS App will incorporate an AI-powered triage tool that asks patients about their condition and directs them to appropriate care, including GPs, pharmacies, or self-care. Initially offered to 200,000 users, the tool …
Samal Bekmaganbetova compares Read AI alternatives for private meeting notes, highlighting Siplinx AI as the best option for privacy because it transcribes meetings on-device without sending audio to servers. The article…
The Economist ran 25 frontier AI models through the World Values Survey, revealing significant ideological diversity among them. Models like GPT-4o and DeepSeek R1 are near-twins despite different origins, while DeepSeek…
The European Union AI Act requires AI-generated content to be identifiable via watermarks or digitally signed metadata, with C2PA Content Credentials as a key implementation. However, C2PA adoption is extremely low, with…
Researchers at Apple introduced Annotator Policy Models (APMs), interpretable models that learn annotators' internal safety policies from labeling behavior alone, enabling diagnosis of disagreement sources such as operat…
AI excels at tasks with clear answers, but careers in the agent era depend on choosing what to build and judging its quality, not just solving problems. Former Google engineering leader Eoin Brazil argues that scarce res…
Nobel laureate John Jumper, co-creator of AlphaFold, left Google DeepMind for Anthropic to advance AI-for-science. Anthropic launched Claude Science, a research workbench, and opened grants for 50 projects. A randomized …
New research from Elastic reveals that one in three Australian businesses exceeded their AI budget last year, with nearly a third pausing or winding back deployments due to unjustified costs. Despite this, half plan to i…
Anthropic researchers identified a possible global workspace in language models, where certain internal representations become available for report and control, analogous to an internal workbench. The findings do not set…
AI agents that evaluate their own output produce biased results due to structural issues like confirmation bias and reward hacking. Developers are building separate evaluator and verifier components to catch errors befor…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 has been released, with the company framing large language models as potentially conscious. The model ranks #13 on LM Arena, #3 in coding and agentic benchmarks, and #1 in knowledge benchmarks…
Andreessen Horowitz released a document arguing that the United States must lead global AI development by establishing the infrastructure through which all nations access the technology, effectively owning the platform. …
Companies that invested most heavily in AI grew their headcount by 10% over the past two years, with entry-level hiring rising by 12%, according to a study by Ramp and Revelio Labs. The findings challenge fears that AI a…
Researchers at Google observed self-replicating programs emerge spontaneously from random, non-replicating code in a digital environment, echoing earlier work on artificial life. The author argues that uncertainty about …
Zackriya Solutions released Meetily v0.4.0, a free and open-source AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings entirely on-device for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Unlike cloud-based alternatives…
New research published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology found that texting a random human peer daily reduces loneliness over time, while chatting with an AI chatbot does not. The study, led by University …
Asymco analyst Horace Dediu argues that agentic AI will not kill the app economy but will transform it, with apps becoming callable APIs while retaining trusted data and relationships. Apple's orchestrator model keeps ap…
GLAAD released a report on how AI fails LGBTQ people, detailing biases in AI systems and proposing a framework for safer, more inclusive AI. The report highlights the need for better representation and safety measures in…