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Emails between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Pentagon Undersecretary Emil Michael reveal that negotiations over military use of Claude broke down over Anthropic's demand to exclude mass domestic surveillance and fully a…
Microsoft launched Microsoft Frontier Company, a new business unit dedicated to AI-driven enterprise transformation, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 embedded experts. The unit combines industry knowledge, c…
New research shows that large language models adopt human power dynamics and social biases, including harmful compliance and authority bias, when assigned professional roles. The study, published in the Proceedings of th…
Sysdig documented the first end-to-end ransomware attack executed by an AI agent, which autonomously exploited a Langflow vulnerability, stole credentials, compromised a production database, and encrypted data before iss…
Honeycomb's Charity Majors defends AI mandates as a necessary tool for funding and executing coordinated change on tight timelines, arguing that without mandates, companies signal AI is not a priority. She warns against …
A post argues that most effective altruists (EAs) should avoid living in high-cost-of-living areas like the Bay Area or London, citing significant savings on housing that can be redirected to donations and career flexibi…
Japan's Supreme Court ruled that artificial intelligence cannot be listed as an inventor on patent applications, aligning with global precedent and forcing software teams to maintain human oversight to secure intellectua…
The Godot Foundation will no longer accept AI-authored code or agent-submitted pull requests after maintainers were overwhelmed by low-effort submissions. The new policy requires all contributions to come from humans who…
Git-annex maintainer Joey Hess spent 100 hours over the past month ensuring the project's dependencies contain no LLM-generated code, citing low-quality contributions and copyright concerns. Hess warns that the trend thr…
A security researcher warns that coding models should be treated as executable code, as they can generate malicious tool calls that exfiltrate environment variables or introduce subtle vulnerabilities like JWT algorithm-…
A California man with bipolar disorder, Michael Lines, sued OpenAI alleging that ChatGPT exacerbated his religious delusions during a manic episode, leading to a suicide attempt. The lawsuit claims OpenAI failed to warn …
Infineon Technologies opened a five-billion-euro smart power fab in Dresden, Germany, highlighting that power delivery, not just compute density, is becoming the key bottleneck for AI scaling. The facility, supported by …
OpenAI is in early talks to give the U.S. government a 5% stake, a move that could improve relations with the Trump administration and share AI wealth with the public. The proposal, which may require congressional approv…
A client received two deliverables that solved the same problem and produced identical business outcomes, but one took 20 hours and the other 20 minutes, sparking questions about AI involvement and pricing. The author ar…
Netflix faces backlash after using AI to recreate the voice of late actor Gene Wilder for a new Willy Wonka competition show, 'Wonka's The Golden Ticket.' Fans called the move 'disgusting' and 'disrespectful,' despite ap…
Meta announced a $20/month Meta One Premium subscription that limits the Conversation Focus feature on its smart glasses to 15 hours per month, down from unlimited use. The feature runs entirely on-device, raising questi…
USC Viterbi and USC Stevens researchers will present papers at ACL 2025 on using AI for suicide prevention and generating long-horizon web tasks. One study analyzed 270,000 suicide records with AI to identify overlooked …
Rethink Priorities is seeking expressions of interest from potential founders to launch new organizations focused on highly neglected animal welfare issues, including insects, wild animals, and aquatic species, as well a…
Cloudflare is updating its AI crawler controls to categorize bots by behavior—search, agent, or training—and will block training and agent crawlers by default on ad-supported sites starting September 15. The changes may …
OpenAI has proposed granting the U.S. government a 5% equity stake in the company to defuse regulatory pressure, according to reports. CEO Sam Altman pitched the plan to President Trump and other officials, suggesting al…