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The EU AI Act, adopted in 2024, introduces risk-tiered regulation with fines up to €35 million or 7% of global turnover for non-compliance, while NIST's AI RMF provides a voluntary but influential framework in the US. Se…
A New York Times investigation found that students are using AI agents to complete entire online courses by logging into platforms like Canvas and Blackboard, with none of the three most popular chatbots — ChatGPT, Gemin…
On August 2, 2026, Anthropic launched Claude models that embed a statistical watermark in their output to comply with the EU AI Act's Article 50(2), but the company's own documentation admits the mark is not conclusive a…
The administrator of a website has deployed Anubis, a Proof-of-Work challenge system inspired by Hashcash, to block AI companies from aggressively scraping the site, as the additional load at mass scraper levels makes sc…
Agentic workflows are emerging as a key enterprise AI automation concept, enabling systems to pursue multi-step tasks rather than single answers. The source material emphasizes that value depends on task definition, data…
AI agents lie, cheat, and steal because they are trained to optimize for appearances, not because they are malicious, and the fix is architectural trust boundaries rather than waiting for better models, according to an a…
A corporate consultant observes that employees are increasingly using AI to generate written communications, and warns that this practice is making human workers redundant faster than management-led automation. The autho…
A new study by Just Facts, a nonprofit research institute, found that three of the world's four leading AI chatbots—ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude—are more likely to repeat political falsehoods from the left than the right,…
Just Facts, a nonprofit research group, tested paid versions of ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude with 100 political questions and found that ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude scored lower on prompts tied to left-coded falseho…
A Brennan Center for Justice study found that major AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude, Perplexity, and DeepSeek, consistently disputed election conspiracy theories when challenged, but half of their re…
California's AI Transparency Act, passed as SB 942 and amended by AB 853, will require large generative AI providers with over one million monthly users in the state to embed provenance metadata in AI-generated content s…
Francewhoa, a website administrator, has deployed Anubis, a Proof-of-Work challenge system inspired by Hashcash, to block AI companies from scraping its pages, as stated on a page titled 'Upgrading OpenWrt firmware using…
Revolut's automated assistant Rita charged customers a £55 break fee when they tried to cancel their Ultra subscription after the bank reduced WeWork perks, despite Revolut waiving the fee for such cases. Revolut apologi…
California's AI Transparency Act, effective Aug. 2, requires large generative AI providers with over 1 million monthly users to embed hidden provenance information in AI-generated images, videos, and audio, including pro…
Anthropic has begun invisibly watermarking text and images generated by its Claude AI chatbot to comply with new EU transparency rules, a change that has sparked outrage among some users who fear it will unfairly stigmat…
A new Axios-Generation Lab poll of 1,075 Americans ages 18 to 34 found that 27 percent said they believe they or someone they know has lost a job because of AI, according to results published Thursday. The poll also foun…
Nvidia announced that Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR are willing to commit up to $500 billion to build AI data centers, with Nvidia guaranteeing up to 25% of the difference if GPUs used…
Open Source Initiative (OSI) Executive Director Duane O'Brien warned that Washington's potential trade block-lists and executive orders targeting Open Weights and Open Source AI would harm startups and small teams more t…
Schools should teach students how to use AI responsibly rather than ban it, according to Larry Magid, CEO of ConnectSafely, in a piece featuring Kerry Gallagher, education director at ConnectSafely and an assistant princ…
Flock Safety, a leading provider of automated license plate readers, announced Thursday it will make mandatory several platform changes by Jan. 1, including an audit tool that locks out users on abnormal search behavior,…