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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…
Flock Safety announced new policies on Thursday to address police abuse of its AI surveillance cameras, following dozens of reported cases including the arrest of three Georgia deputies and the investigation of a Massach…
AI can now read and edit DNA, enabling the creation of deepfaked biological viruses, according to a Forbes report by senior contributor John Koetsier. The technology offers significant medical benefits but poses severe b…
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, estimate that a single ChatGPT query consumes about 10 times more electricity than a standard Google search, and they propose four practical steps to cut AI chatbot…
A LatePost investigation based on interviews with nearly ten Chinese AI researchers and practitioners reveals that model distillation, a technique for compressing or improving AI models by training a 'student' model on a…
Codeberg e.V., a German nonprofit open-source hosting platform, voted to ban projects related to cryptocurrency and those heavily tied to or created by large language models (LLMs), effective after a general assembly vot…
Shoppers using AI-equipped smart shopping carts spent 32% more on average than those using regular carts, according to a new study from Bayes Business School at City St. George's, University of London. The researchers tr…
A developer at a machine-learning company describes how AI tools have turned programming into an addictive 'skinner box,' where users experience alternating dread and euphoria, similar to social media's effect on the bra…
Beatport has added Beatdapp's AI detection tool to its platform to block fully AI-generated music from its catalog, enforcing its January 2025 AI policy that permits only human-created or majority human-created AI-assist…
Flock Safety announced new privacy and accountability controls for its automated license plate reader network on Aug. 13, making its Audit Assistance feature mandatory and requiring case codes for searches, while shorten…
Google's Pixel Watch 5 introduces a breathing emergency detection feature that uses AI to analyze heart rate, motion, and altitude sensor data to detect signs of a breathing emergency, automatically calling emergency ser…
Flock Safety, which operates over 120,000 automatic license plate reader cameras across 49 states, is rolling out updates that require Audit Assistance and case codes for all searches after reports of police officers abu…
LinkedIn is urging users to reduce their reliance on AI-generated content, according to a Wall Street Journal report, as the professional network seeks to maintain authentic engagement on its platform. The company has no…
Flock Safety announced privacy updates on Thursday, including allowing police departments to restrict data access and shortening default data retention to one week, as Bay Area cities split over its license plate cameras…