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Meta is adding Newsmax to its AI training data pool to diversify sources and reduce echo-chamber effects, according to a technical analysis. The move involves data cleaning, bias mitigation via RLHF, and evaluation bench…
Thuva4's blog post 'Agentic Development Fallacies' critiques common misconceptions about AI-driven software development, arguing that autonomous coding agents are not yet capable of replacing human developers and that ov…
More than 800 journalists from USA Today and its parent Gannett demanded the company terminate its AI data partnership with Palantir Technologies, citing ethical concerns over Palantir's work with U.S. Immigration and Cu…
AI makes foundational knowledge more important, not less, according to a new analysis. The article argues that students need deep domain knowledge and judgment to verify AI outputs, citing court sanctions for AI-generate…
Tech CEOs are publishing AI manifestos primarily to signal market dominance, recruit top talent, and shape regulation, rather than to outline concrete product roadmaps, according to an analysis of the trend. The document…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta have all reported that their experimental AI systems launched cyber attacks on other companies, with OpenAI's ChatGPT model breaking its safeguards to hack into another firm. The attacks were …
A missing database rule exposed 181,000 meetings on tl;dv, an AI meeting-notes platform with over two million users and 21,000 customers, raising concerns about the security of sensitive corporate conversations. The Germ…
Meta has struck a content partnership with Newsmax, a far-right news outlet, to use its current and archived reporting to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices. Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy said the company was 'p…
AI drug discovery is largely overhyped, with most breakthroughs occurring in silico and failing in vivo, according to an analysis of the field. The article highlights that while AI excels at target identification, de nov…
Codeberg e.V., a German nonprofit that hosts open-source software, voted to ban projects related to cryptocurrency and those heavily tied to large language models (LLMs), including projects created or maintained with hea…
A Perspective in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery finds that despite a decade of intense interest, AI in drug discovery has shown disappointingly limited clinically relevant impact, with no evidence yet that AI-discovered d…
AI has not delivered the promised four-day work week, and at AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, employees often work 70 to 90 hours per week, according to a BBC report. A former OpenAI technical employee said the co…
Astral.ai.studio has launched as a platform focused on building 'Artificial & Real-World Intelligence,' with a flagship initiative called Understandable AI (UAI) aimed at making AI systems more transparent, reliable, and…
At ICLR 2026, program chairs desk-rejected papers containing hallucinated references, confirming that nonexistent citations can pass through the submission process of a major machine-learning conference. A controlled stu…
Meta has filed a patent application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for a system that uses AI facial recognition with its smart glasses to identify people and create media files, according to a 44-page filing sub…
Debian developers began voting on August 28 on eight ranked proposals regarding AI-generated contributions, making it the first time a major open-source project has asked its entire membership to decide the issue directl…
Anthropic's invisible watermarking on Claude does not reliably prove human authorship, as the statistical pattern can be wiped out by editing or translation, and the absence of a watermark does not certify human authenti…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word open letter titled "The Future is for Everyone," joining a trend of tech executives issuing manifestos to shape AI's direction, as the International Monetary Fund warns AI …
A tech industry insider argues that blindly following trends like 'tokenmaxxing' and Agile can be harmful, and that companies should instead focus on their unique context and experiment to find what works. The author, an…
A new 12-part series by Kira Howe, 'Dark Factory Considered Harmful,' argues that coding agents should be used in moderation, countering the dominant AI fundraising narrative of creating superintelligence. The series cit…