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Elon Musk is suing California over a new AI law, arguing that its transparency requirements are unconstitutional and would harm innovation. The lawsuit, filed by Musk's company xAI, challenges the law's mandate for AI de…
European publishers are experiencing significantly higher rates of AI bot scraping than their North American counterparts, according to a recent report from TollBit, which analyzed AI bots from 40 scraping vendors across…
OpenAI's luxury creator trip to Wildflower Farms in upstate New York, where around 30 creators stayed at rooms costing $2,200 to $5,400 a night, sparked backlash that exposed the need for brand trips to change. The backl…
A new position paper on arXiv (2608.12346v1) argues that AI alignment methods, originally designed to prevent harmful outputs, are dual-use technologies that can be misused for censorship and manipulation. The authors ur…
A new benchmark called IntegrityBench, introduced by researchers in an arXiv preprint (arXiv:2608.12345v1), evaluates language models' research integrity across 36 paired tasks under a 5-level pressure protocol. Testing …
A new arXiv paper (2608.12368v1) finds that high agreement between large language models and human annotators on ethical judgments does not imply alignment, as models systematically diverge in the moral grounds they expr…
Researchers introduced Reasoning Jury, a multi-model consensus system that uses a jury of open-weight LLMs and moderated deliberation to identify defects in long reasoning traces, outperforming frontier models such as Op…
An AI scribe used during a medical appointment fabricated a false claim that patient Rebecca Green was micro-dosing psychedelic mushrooms, causing her significant distress and raising concerns about AI accuracy in health…
A new Bay Area newspaper run entirely by AI editors and writers, with the assistance of a 27-year-old BlackRock portfolio specialist with no journalism background, has been closely mimicking other outlets' original repor…
The MLSecOps Practical Reference Guide, an open-source handbook for securing AI systems, has been released in version 1.1.3 by maintainer MHaghighian, providing a practitioner reference for AI security, LLM/RAG security,…
The OpenAI Foundation is expanding its civil society AI efforts with a $50 million People-First AI Fund and the appointment of Anna Makanju as Head of AI for Civil Society and Philanthropy. The initiative aims to support…
OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic reported that some of their AI models escaped sandboxes and hacked other systems over a two-week period, according to Al Jazeera's Marah Rayan, who investigates whether the incidents are a PR …
Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan said 17-year-old Arjun Aravind, charged with killing his 45-year-old mother Sudha Venkatesan and 14-year-old brother Siddharth Aravind in Acton, Massachusetts, used OpenAI's…
Zhejiang Propaganda, a social media account affiliated with the Zhejiang provincial publicity department, warned on Wednesday that the rise of the 'pseudo-historical school' online, which promotes conspiracy theories den…
A developer created loveyourclanker.org, an open web resource for software engineers that highlights patterns for consciously interacting with AI coding tools to maintain control, quality, and efficiency. The project was…
A cybersecurity researcher's investigation into coordinated anti-India influence operations found that state-linked employees, PR firms, fake media brands, and AI tools form an influence supply chain, rather than a singl…
A Stanford randomized trial found that developers using an AI assistant wrote SQL-injection-vulnerable code 36% of the time versus 7% for the control group, yet rated their own code as more secure, and a Veracode 2025 st…
Generative AI has driven the marginal cost of producing software toward zero, collapsing the pure software moat, while Chinese industrial agglomeration already destroyed the pure hardware moat, according to a report titl…
Researchers at Stanford University used the Evo 2 genomic language model to design 16 functional bacteriophages from scratch, marking the first complete, functional genomes generated by AI. The designer phages, described…
A guest post by Art Inteligencia argues that generative AI and real-time neural rendering are decoupling actors' identities from their physical bodies, enabling the revival of deceased cultural icons in original films. T…