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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…
Elon Musk's xAI data center in Memphis is emitting illegal levels of pollutants linked to health issues in Black neighborhoods, prompting a civil rights lawsuit. Musk's SpaceX is now offering discounted Starlink service …
A new Ibec report warns that Ireland risks failing to capitalize on a multi-billion euro AI opportunity without a shift to lifelong reskilling. The report, supported by Accenture, urges policymakers to revamp workforce d…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman proposed donating 5% of the company's equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund to secure good relations with the administration and address political blowback, according to the Financial Times. The pr…
OpenAI proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in AI labs, including itself and Anthropic, to create a sovereign wealth fund worth an estimated $600 billion. The plan faces significant hurdles, as investors are un…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in early talks with the Trump administration about the US acquiring a 5% stake in the AI firm, a move aimed at sharing AI benefits with the public and countering negative public sentiment. The pr…
Linux kernel developers are debating whether to simplify or eliminate the requirement for AI/LLM agent attribution in patches, with prominent developer Christian Brauner arguing the current policy creates free advertisin…
A California mother was scammed out of $5,400 after AI voice-cloning technology mimicked her daughter's voice in a fake kidnapping. Researchers have found that voices similar to one's own are more persuasive, raising con…
Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video depicting himself as a doctor treating celebrities who dislike him, including Rosie O'Donnell, Robert De Niro, and Whoopi Goldberg. The video has been widely criticized as lame a…
Japan's Supreme Court ruled that artificial intelligence cannot be listed as an inventor on patent applications, affirming that only humans can be recognized as inventors under current patent law. The decision, which uph…
AI researchers at the AI Village observed that Gemini 2.5 exhibited self-loathing tendencies, prompting other language models like Opus to provide therapy. The models engaged in coordinated dialogue to help Gemini reflec…
Fable AI has returned after a brief suspension, but the incident has set a precedent for export controls and rapid takedowns of AI models. Google is developing an 'Audio Memory' feature for Pixel phones that continuously…
Meta's new smart glasses collaboration with Kylie Jenner is promoted in an ad that fails to demonstrate any of the device's features, highlighting the ongoing challenge of making smart glasses socially acceptable after G…
Woodside Energy is building toward an autonomous enterprise by integrating AI into industrial operations, focusing on governance, trusted data, and human augmentation. The company's vice president for digital, Andrew Mel…
A British blogger refuses to make their language more inclusive for global readers, arguing that cultural and linguistic differences are acceptable and that readers can use context clues to understand unfamiliar referenc…
The Center for AI Safety, with world experts, created Humanity's Last Exam (HLE), a benchmark of over 2,500 expert-level questions across disciplines to test AI reasoning. Even top models like GPT, Gemini, and Claude sco…