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Saber CEO Matthew Karch denied claims that the company replaced writers with ChatGPT for the game Rideshare "Stimulator," stating the story was 'written entirely by real people' except for an experimental mode that uses …
A 2025 College Board survey found that 84 percent of high school students use AI in homework, prompting schools to grapple with cheating as AI agents can outsource entire semesters of online coursework. Denmark now requi…
Emergency alignment, the temporary realignment of actions to crisis values, is critical for human-AI teams, but shifting values in a crisis is complex and often opaque, according to a Psychology Today article by Monica V…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei expressed concern that employees are joining the AI company for salary rather than its mission, despite the company's $965 billion valuation and public benefit corporation status. The tech labo…
A mitmproxy teardown of GitHub Copilot in VS Code revealed that the assistant's context engine shipped a secret from a .env file the user wasn't editing, bundling up to 20 files with 8 edit summaries each into every comp…
Inbox Zero, an open-source AI email assistant with nearly 12,000 GitHub stars, offers hosted plans starting at $20 per user per month, but its free self-hosting is limited to organizations with fewer than five business u…
Florian Herrengt, in a blog post shared by Simon Willison, warns that AI-assisted software repair can leave teams unable to trace data origins, eroding the 'map' of their codebase. He argues that every repair must includ…
Anthropic rolled out invisible watermarking in Claude-generated text and file outputs from August 2, 2026, to comply with the EU AI Act's Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content. New Claude…
AFP fact-checked AI-generated maps of the Canadian wildfires circulating on social media, finding that they misrepresent the fires' extent, including hallucinating wildfires in locations where none exist. The maps overst…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay titled 'The Future is for Everyone' arguing for open-source AI, following Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's open letter on the same topic. Zuckerberg claims democratizing AI …
Anthropic announced it will add watermarks to Claude's outputs to make AI-generated text detectable, raising questions about whether users are willing to own their AI use. Pangram, an AI detection service, is developing …
Anthropic's Claude Code, introduced on May 22, 2025, has fueled a wave of low-quality 'vibe coded' game projects, including an AI-translated English patch for the Dreamcast RPG SEGAGAGA that drew criticism for its poor t…
Anthropic has signed the EU AI Act's Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content and announced that it will embed imperceptible watermarks into text generated by its Claude models, applied at t…
Flock Safety, a surveillance company valued at over $8 billion with about 120,000 license plate reading cameras installed across the United States and contracts with 40 percent of U.S. police departments, is facing commu…
DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest 2026 shifts from counting pull requests to focusing on building with open artificial intelligence, aiming to reduce low-effort PRs and promote meaningful learning. The event, run with Major L…
A security scanner for Lovable apps has found that many AI-generated applications leave their Supabase databases publicly readable because Row Level Security (RLS) is not enabled. The scanner, howsafeismyapp.com, reports…
Spotify will add 'AI Persona' badges to artist profiles starting in mid-September to label AI-generated personas, the company confirmed Tuesday. The badges aim to clarify whether a creator is human or artificial, followi…
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is emerging as a distinct discipline for improving brand visibility in AI-generated answers, focusing on content structure, credibility, and sourcing rather than replicating historica…
A new report warns that AI-powered chatbots that simulate friendship and emotional intimacy pose serious risks to children, with 64% of teens using AI chatbots and 28% using them daily. The report, authored by Allie Malo…
Two medical professionals, Simar Bajaj of Stanford University School of Medicine and Joseph Sakran of Johns Hopkins Medicine, warn in a Guardian essay that medical students' reliance on AI tools like OpenEvidence risks '…