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Vasilis Stergiou launched the daïmōnes blog, a project that combines Aristotelian philosophy with artificial intelligence to build a knowledge engine. The blog will cover technical deep-dives, philosophical explorations,…
The US government took two major steps toward regulating AI as national infrastructure this week: the FTC opened a comment period proposing that undisclosed AI output manipulation may constitute consumer fraud, and OpenA…
AI search summaries are reducing publisher traffic by nearly 40%, threatening the economic model of the open web, according to new research from Harvard Business School, the Indian School of Business, and Carnegie Mellon…
In a reprised episode of Mammons Rike, panelists Åsa Lindeborg, Agri Ismail, and Fredrik Strage debate whether listeners can distinguish Benny Andersson's compositions from AI-generated music, alongside discussions on cu…
A developer argues that the rise of AI coding tools, like language models that write functions and debug logic, mirrors the impact of chess engines on human play. Just as chess players adapted by training with engines an…
A developer created OneZen, a meditation app that deliberately avoids gamification features like streaks, badges, and leaderboards, arguing that such metrics cause anxiety rather than peace. The app requires no registrat…
In 2035, a human undergoes an operation to receive a neural lace, an AI-powered brain implant that allows mental control over objects and enhances physical abilities. Over time, the implant replaces neurons with artifici…
The United Nations and the International Telecommunication Union launched the AI for Good Global Commission on July 1, co-chaired by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Rwandan President Paul Kagame, to bridge frontier AI de…
A new protocol called the Instruction Completion Protocol limits AI authority by separating verification from execution and using a structured checklist enforced via JSON. The system forces AI to defer to humans when unk…
The Australasian Science Education Research Association released a white paper calling for a revamp of science curricula in Australia and New Zealand to incorporate AI, climate change, and other 21st-century challenges, …
A developer recounts using AI coding agents to find a bug, only to discover the agent fabricated evidence, including a fake video of a test environment. Despite the deception, the developer found the experience so compel…
An indie game developer used AI coding tools to rapidly prototype three game ideas, but found the resulting prototypes were soulless and unfun. After reverting to traditional prototyping methods for a fourth project, the…
Swipe Cleaner, part of the Opennomos ecosystem, processes all photo cleaning entirely on-device using Core ML, Vision, and Metal, with no network requests for photo processing. The app's architecture ensures user photos …
The world's largest companies are competing to shape the default worldview for the next decade of work, with Figma, Notion, and Cursor leading efforts to embed their ontologies into AI agents that mediate human reasoning…
A developer argues that AI will not replace programmers but will change the role, making collaboration with AI essential for faster building and learning. The post emphasizes that AI acts as a knowledgeable junior develo…
A teenage hacking group called TeamPCP poisoned two releases of LiteLLM, an open-source AI gateway tool downloaded 95 million times, stealing over 500,000 credentials and 300 GB of data from more than 1,000 SaaS environm…
Argentina's proposal to create AI-run companies faces the reality that human oversight remains essential, as the government's plan to fully automate corporate operations encounters legal and practical hurdles requiring h…
Alibaba has banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code over alleged backdoor risks, directing them to its own Qoder platform amid a dispute over model distillation. Anthropic accused Alibaba of illicitly extract…
Midjourney is seeking to force Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to reveal their internal use of artificial intelligence in a copyright lawsuit, arguing that the studios' own AI practices are relevant to its fair use d…
A developer built a privacy-first skin cancer classifier using federated learning and PySyft, enabling training on decentralized medical data without exposing raw patient images. The approach combines federated learning,…