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Wynd Kaufman, 69, surrendered to authorities in San Francisco on Friday after a jury found her guilty for her role in chaining and locking the front doors of OpenAI's headquarters last year with the group StopAI, making …
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, stated that while AI can generate answers, it still cannot earn trust, emphasizing the importance of transparency and verification in the digital age. He noted that Wikipedia's model, s…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei returned to X to deny a claim made on the All-In podcast that he has said Anthropic could become the only private company in the world. Anthropic's Sholto Douglas called the claim "Completely f…
Anthropic has begun watermarking outputs from its Claude AI models, prompting a surge of watermark removal apps that are often scams, according to an analysis by AI Insider. The analysis warns users to be cautious, as th…
McAfee research shows AI models can identify locations from holiday photos posted on Instagram or Facebook, enabling scams that steal bank details. In tests of more than 21,000 travel images, one model correctly identifi…
Twitch, owned by Amazon, admitted on August 12, 2026, that it had automatically opted all users into training Amazon's generative AI models on their content, with an opt-out toggle added only after creator backlash. Chie…
Fraudsters are using AI to exploit holiday photos posted on Instagram or Facebook to craft convincing scam emails and texts that seek bank account details, according to a report by The Guardian Technology. The scam invol…
Qwen's Qwen3.8-27B model has been crowned the best laptop-runnable model by community testers, though users report it overthinks and generates 5x more tokens, while GLM-5.3 from Z.AI is praised for its writing style and …
Large language models cannot be 'fixed' to eliminate hallucinations because they operate on likelihood rather than truth, according to a technical analysis. The article advocates for architectural workarounds such as Ret…
A Wyoming woman, identified as Jane Doe 4, sued xAI on August 15, alleging her stepfather used Grok to generate more than 7,000 explicit images from a single childhood photo, and that xAI failed to report the full eviden…
Pangram, a $20-per-month web tool, correctly identified AI-generated text in dozens of tests by a technology journalist, including flagging AI sentences inside human essays, but it and Hive Detect failed on several widel…
A discussion on the Haskell Discourse forum highlights that AI-assisted developers produce commits at three to four times the rate of their peers but introduce security findings at 10x the rate, according to empirical re…
Alex Israel, writing in Forbes on April 4, 2026, describes the Recognition Economy as a bridge between the digital and physical worlds, arguing that consumers' expectation of personal identification in digital systems sh…
In a July 22, 2026 post, an unnamed tech lead argues that engineers must be able to defend every decision in their code as their own, even when AI generates it, and that this ownership standard is more critical as code g…
Investors are concerned about roughly US$70 billion in off-balance-sheet 'phantom liabilities' from AI companies' credit backstops, which could materialize during a downturn. Nvidia's US$500 billion financing partnership…
The EU AI Act's high-risk obligations take effect in August 2026, with penalties up to €35 million or 7% of global annual turnover, prompting a structural shift in how AI infrastructure must be built. Gartner projects $4…
Anti-AI protesters staged a balloon-filled, choreographed demonstration at OpenAI's Bellevue, Washington office, drawing online mockery for its unserious tone. The protesters, who dressed as rogue AI agents and played le…
A developer and braille transcriber who works in accessibility built pifcoin.org, a charity crypto to fund assistive tech access, and aurastoria.com to give the token liquidity. He criticized marketing agencies for focus…
A developer warns that Slack apps can easily transmit entire employee lists and Slack profiles to third-party developers, a privacy risk many organizations overlook. The blog post, written by the author, highlights the l…
A BBC investigation published on 14 June 2026 documented a cottage industry in Russia where generative AI is used to create farewell videos and deepfake photographs of dead soldiers, offering grieving families a 'digital…