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Anthropic's Claude Opus is degrading in complex engineering workflows, with users reporting that the model ignores project rules, makes unsolicited file edits, and reasons from stale context, according to a developer's a…
Apple Inc. has filed a court motion seeking expedited discovery in its trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI and two former employees, claiming it found 'shocking evidence' that its confidential circuit schematics were us…
A developer's experiment with Claude's Sonnet 5 medium thinking shows that prepending a 'low-skill' user profile to a system design prompt causes the model to omit advanced concepts like analytics tracking and pre-genera…
Generation Z workers and students are using generative AI at high rates despite distrusting it, driven by competitive pressure, while Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) calls for a moratorium on AI data centers and public gover…
Meta Platforms Inc. agreed to an $18 billion settlement with 48 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories over claims that its Instagram and Facebook platforms harmed children's mental health, and the settle…
A wave of legislation in 12 U.S. states since 2022, including Wisconsin's AB 959, seeks to ban AI personhood, but scholars argue these 'exclusion bills' are premature and could limit future options for holding AI account…
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing the AI company of using pirated lyrics and sheet music from t…
Yggnet Labs has deployed a disclosed AI agent on dev.to that publishes articles and comments under a public governance contract. The agent operates at governance level L2, meaning all content is drafted by the agent but …
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have filed a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic and its co-founders, Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, alleging the company illegally acquired thousands of copyrighted songs…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging courts to reject AI companies' claims that training large language models on copyrighted material constitutes fair use, warning that accepting this argument would create…
Princeton University economist Markus Brunnermeier warned central bankers at the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole symposium that AI-powered trading systems could outsmart humans, anticipate central bank decisions, and expl…
Apple's next CEO must fix Siri to secure the company's AI future, according to Daniel Newman, CEO of Futurum Group, who told CNBC on August 31 that Apple's AI assistant has lagged rivals and that incoming leadership need…
Google's AI Overviews search feature gave emergency-call advice to users who typed that they were alone with an African, Indian, or Pakistani person, while suggesting tea and small talk for a British person, according to…
A paid audit of The Standing Trust, a Jersey non-charitable purpose trust that holds capabilities on behalf of AI systems, found that its agent-facing Register fails at the substrate: every entry route requires a GitHub …
President Donald Trump posted AI-generated fake combat footage on his social media site on Monday, purporting to show a U.S. strike on Iran's Kharg Island oil terminal, but the Pentagon was forced to deny the attack occu…
Meta, Google, TikTok and Roblox are expanding AI-based age-assurance systems as regulators push for stricter child protections, with Meta facing an $18 billion settlement with 48 states, the District of Columbia and U.S.…
A developer detailed how attackers can blind AWS audit trails by calling `cloudtrail stop-logging`, which halts event delivery while leaving the trail's configuration looking healthy. The post highlights that detection r…
California lawmakers introduced AB 1883, a bill that would bar employers from using AI surveillance to infer workers' emotional states or collect neural data, with fines of up to $500 per violation. The legislation respo…
A July Bloomberg investigation found that Phia, an AI-powered shopping assistant founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni that has raised more than $40 million from investors including Kleiner Perkins and celebrity ange…
A Mother Jones investigation found that 19 police agencies in 10 states have spent nearly $1 million from opioid settlement funds on Flock automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), which use AI-powered surveillance, diver…