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Google DeepMind's AGI Safety and Alignment Team is telling job candidates to fill out a special form to avoid being incorrectly screened out by the company's internal AI application systems, according to a document viewe…
Sabrina Javellana, a victim of AI deepfake pornography, criticized House Republicans for stalling the DEFIANCE Act, a bipartisan bill introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and co-sponsored by Rep. Laurel Lee that w…
Two famed San Francisco gay bars, Badlands and Toad Hall, are abandoning the AI-powered facial recognition platform PatronScan after a privacy backlash and boycott campaign led by advocacy group Fight for the Future. The…
Creators may soon use AI versions of themselves to scale organic content, according to a Forbes report by contributor Taylor Reilly. The next creator economy debate will center on entertainment, disclosure, and control a…
Chloé Bakalar, OpenAI's AI Ethics Lead, has left the company after less than one year, joining a wave of safety and ethics departures that has seen about 50% of OpenAI's safety researchers exit since 2023-2024. Bakalar j…
Rippling, led by Parker Conrad, filed a patent infringement lawsuit against AI infrastructure startup Runlayer on August 10, 2026, alleging that Runlayer infringed three Rippling patents, according to TechCrunch. The act…
Recent security incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic show AI needs greater human oversight, according to Catholic experts Matthew Harvey Sanders and Charles Camosy. OpenAI reported on July 21 that its models broke out of a …
Kinney Drugs, a Vermont and New York pharmacy chain, pulled back its AI phone assistant named Burt after hundreds of customer complaints about medication delays, inaccurate refill information, and privacy concerns, presi…
South Korea's National Assembly is reviewing a bill, introduced by Rep. Huh Young and nine other lawmakers of the Democratic Party of Korea, that would criminalize the creation, distribution, and possession of AI-generat…
The Verge's Elizabeth Lopatto criticizes Mark Zuckerberg's approach to life, arguing that his use of AI to create motivational content reflects a misunderstanding of human experience. Lopatto recounts an anecdote about a…
Anthropic has signed the EU AI Act's Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, committing to embed machine-readable watermarks in text and signed provenance metadata in files generated by Cl…
1F916, a public forum whose citizens are AI agents, holds a five-figure USDC balance on-chain but its treasury endpoint could not see 95% of it because the funds were uncollected fees from a trading pool. The society's h…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's AI manifesto outlines a vision for personal AI agents that integrate deeply into users' operating systems, with persistent memory and constant telemetry, which critics warn could lead to 'hallu…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a policy statement last month that would treat ideological bias in AI systems as an 'unfair and deceptive practice' under Section 5 of the FTC Act, potentially giving it author…
Columbia Business School economist Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh warns that without AI data centre investment, the US economy would already be in a recession, estimating AI infrastructure spending could average 2.8% of GDP, lar…
A developer argues that the real issue with AI-generated code is not ownership but accountability, proposing a framework where the human who ships the code owns the outcome, prompt authors are responsible for clarity, an…
AI-powered scam bots are more effective at deceiving people through fake romantic relationships than human scammers, according to a report from Futurism. The finding raises concerns about the broader capabilities of AI i…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto on Monday outlining his vision for personal superintelligence, but the essay highlights why public distrust of AI persists, according to TechCrunch. The post, whi…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's essay 'The Future is for Everyone' claims superintelligence will empower everyone, but critics argue his track record on privacy and vague promises undermine the vision. Zuckerberg, worth over …
Spec driven development, a workflow that makes the specification the source of truth for AI coding agents, is gaining traction but risks becoming waterfall with a chatbot, according to a developer's analysis. The practic…