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MIT's Working Group on Scholarly Content and Generative AI, co-chaired by MIT Libraries Director Chris Bourg and Office of the General Counsel Counsel Claire Schneider, released three resource documents on August 12, 202…
Roku launched the Fairground AI Creator TV channel, the first free all-AI streaming channel featuring content from roughly 100 AI creators, and early reviews have been highly critical, with The Verge comparing it to eati…
Doug Cockle, the voice actor behind Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher games, said he would sue every AI platform using his voice 'into the ground' if he had the resources, calling AI voice replication 'the bugbear of my lif…
A new SE Ranking report found ChatGPT showed ads on 28.69% of commercial prompts in its healthcare category, more than 10 times the 2.64% recorded in Google's AI Mode. OpenAI's ad placement rules, last updated August 10,…
MemeToro's dry run of its AI memecoin launchpad selected a lower-harm candidate and skipped war, disaster, and polarization topics, showing risk information can influence selection but not guaranteeing safe results. The …
Samsung Electronics CEO TM Roh said at the London launch of the Galaxy Z Fold8 that AI must understand the user to be truly useful, emphasizing that a one-size-fits-all approach is insufficient. Roh highlighted Samsung's…
Following Australia's first reported automated hacking accident, experts say AI agents are not legally responsible for harm they cause, and deployers—and possibly developers—could be held liable. Prof Jeannie Paterson st…
Convertr has launched Convertr Govern, a governance module that enforces data compliance policies before customer contacts and sales leads are entered into CRM systems or other systems of record. The module, announced by…
Google DeepMind has launched SL2T, a sign-language-to-text translation model now powering American Sign Language to English dictation in Gboard and Live Transcribe on Pixel 11, marking the first integration of sign-langu…
A Financial Times analysis warns that poor numeracy is a critical blind spot in the age of AI, as an understanding of mathematics is essential for judging whether AI systems are providing accurate information. The piece …
A growing community of 'datamaxxers' is voluntarily feeding every detail of their health and daily routines to artificial intelligence systems, according to a Wall Street Journal report. These individuals track metrics l…
Codeberg e.V., a German nonprofit open-source hosting platform, voted to ban projects related to cryptocurrency and those heavily tied to or created by large language models (LLMs), citing infrastructure strain and polit…
More than 75% of AI-first businesses took an average of 80 days longer to recover from security incidents than peers, and nearly half said AI was directly exploited in their most recent breach, according to a report by s…
Programmer Fogus, in a blog post, explains why hobby coding communities are hostile toward large language models, arguing that for hobbyists, working code is not the goal; they value the process of building operating sys…
Anthropic has hired Robert Mahari as its first Head of Claude for Legal, appointing the legal AI PhD and founder of Akiva AI to lead the company's push into law firms and legal departments. The appointment, reported by T…
A study by Mark Ma, Professor of Business Administration at the University of Pittsburgh, found that AI-driven layoffs are hurting worker productivity because job insecurity makes employees reluctant to use AI, undermini…
Queen guitarist Sir Brian May called on Andy Burnham to block AI developments in the UK after being angered by a Meta AI-generated image of a Queen album cover, warning that building data centres across the country would…
As artificial intelligence tools like Claude and ChatGPT become more prevalent, people are increasingly outsourcing tasks and even emotional support to machines, raising concerns about the loss of human autonomy and cogn…
A federal judge refused to halt enforcement of California's Assembly Bill 2013, the Generative Artificial Intelligence Training Data Transparency Act, in a case brought by Elon Musk's xAI against California officials, ma…
Prompt injection attacks exploit the architectural gap in LLMs where instructions and data are processed as an undifferentiated token stream, allowing untrusted input to override developer-set instructions. The attack co…