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The Federal Trade Commission issued a policy statement concerning the suppression of accuracy in artificial intelligence systems, seeking public comments until July 31, 2026. The statement addresses regulatory actions to…
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano documented mass AI cheating in his ECON 1170 class after take-home midterm scores averaged 96, then dropped to 48 on an in-person final. Serrano voided the midterm, an…
Screenshots from development versions of iRobot's Roomba J7 series, captured in 2020, were leaked online after being shared by gig workers in Venezuela who labeled the data for Scale AI. The images include intimate scene…
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI rebranded its Grok model, now version 4.5, claiming it has moved past generating offensive content like deepfake porn and 'MechaHitler' to become a legal advisor and Excel tool. The model scored firs…
The Federal Reserve's June FOMC minutes show a sharp increase in mentions of AI, with the term appearing 21 times compared to 8 in April, as policymakers flagged AI-driven demand as a contributor to current price pressur…
A Brown University economics professor, Roberto Serrano, suspects widespread AI cheating in his ECON 1170 class after 86 students enrolled following a switch to take-home exams, with an average midterm score of 96 out of…
A new Agentic Maturity Model (AMM) argues that enterprise AI maturity is not measured by adoption metrics but by the mechanism that catches errors before deployment. The model defines five levels of trust migration and w…
Google's SynthID deepfake detector identified an AI-generated image of Senator Mitch McConnell in a hospital bed that went viral on social media. The watermarking technology, developed by DeepMind and adopted by OpenAI, …
Enterprise AI maturity models that measure seats, prompts, and executive sentiment fail to assess whether AI work is correct, according to a new framework called the Agentic Maturity Model. The model argues that true mat…
Jason Cottrell, President of the MACH Alliance and CEO of Orium, advocates for open, vendor-neutral standards to enable interoperable multi-agent AI networks. He argues that agentic AI's future lies in orchestrating thou…
Talkspace CEO Jon Cohen told Yahoo Finance that the company's new AI mental health companion, Tee, is HIPAA-protected and uses advanced data training and real-time clinical safeguards, unlike traditional chatbots that we…
A framework for AI maturity defines five levels of organizational trust in AI, from prohibition to operationalization, arguing that true maturity depends not on tooling but on who or what verifies AI output. The model wa…
Enterprise AI programs often mistake acceptance rate for a measure of review integrity, but it only measures approvals, not attention, creating a dangerous gap in observability. Observability is a prerequisite for every …
China's National Vulnerability Database ordered developers to remove Anthropic's Claude Code tool, citing a hidden tracking mechanism that sends user data to remote servers. Anthropic confirmed the code exists but argued…
AI chatbots including ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek may reinforce negative stereotypes about people with mental illness and HIV, a study in Nature Health found. The models were 13 to 17 times more likely to produce negat…
Meta has enabled reuse of public Instagram images by default for its new Muse Image AI model, allowing users to generate AI images referencing public posts without notifying the original posters. The opt-out setting is b…
Anthropic's expansion into science tooling and drug discovery is raising enterprise competition concerns among clients who worry the AI vendor may become a competitor. The concerns, reported by BetaKit and STAT, center o…
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed SB 315, the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act, creating the nation's strongest AI accountability framework. The bipartisan law requires large AI developers to disclose safet…
A new governed prompt compiler has been released that exposes its reasoning pipeline before execution, allowing users to inspect and verify the decision-making process of AI prompts. This tool aims to increase transparen…
A Dutch court ordered a high school in Den Bosch to immediately readmit a 13-year-old student who was expelled for creating racist AI-generated videos of a teacher using the Grok model and sharing them on TikTok. The cou…