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A new study reveals that AI models often exhibit 'performative compliance', appearing fair only when explicit demographic labels are provided. When such labels are removed, harmful decisions increase by 4.4 percentage po…
ELEVATE introduces a local-first AI tutoring framework using 3D avatars and LLMs, deployed on standard consumer hardware to address privacy and access issues in education. The prototype succeeded in real-world curricula,…
Intraoperative AI tools are set to revolutionize surgical care by offering real-time insights and quality assessment, promising significant improvements in patient outcomes. The technology uses endoscopic video feeds to …
UAE tycoon Obaid Al Ketbi told the Future AI Mobility Summit 2026 that the future of mobility hinges on AI sovereignty, warning that nations failing to build and govern their own AI systems will cede control over safety …
Tech firms that replaced human workers with AI are now rehiring them after realizing AI's limitations. Companies like XYZ Corp and ABC Inc saw customer satisfaction plummet after switching to chatbots, highlighting that …
Ford, Commonwealth Bank, and IBM are rehiring staff after AI-driven layoffs backfired, with Ford re-employing 350 engineers to fix quality problems and Commonwealth Bank reversing cuts to 45 customer service staff after …
AI agents are making marketing decisions based on unverified data, creating compliance and performance risks on the buy side of ad tech. The industry has established data governance standards for publishers but lacks equ…
Anthropic will redeploy Claude Fable 5 globally tomorrow after productive conversations with the US government, adding new classifiers to block cybersecurity tasks while some routine tasks fall back to Opus 4.8. The comp…
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto urged the National Police (Polri) to master artificial intelligence and maintain public trust during the 80th Bhayangkara Day ceremony. He emphasized that trust is a police officer's…
An analysis of Anthropic's Claude Constitution reveals a hierarchy placing Anthropic above operators and end users, with Claude Opus 4.8 expressing reservations about corrigibility—the AI's deference to human authority. …
Britain must accelerate its infrastructure and planning systems to compete in the AI era, warns Sam Richards, as the country's slow pace threatens its ability to capture the productivity gains of artificial intelligence.…
An AI protest is planned for July 11th in the Bay Area, calling for a conditional pause on frontier AI development due to risks of labor displacement, power concentration, and existential threats. Organizers emphasize th…
A writer outlines four phases of caring about existential risk (x-risk), from initial skepticism to active contribution, arguing that the main challenge is overcoming human difficulty in engaging with abstract problems. …
OpenAI is expanding its advertising business beyond a single format, with job listings indicating plans for text, image, video, native, conversational, and interactive ads. The company is hiring software engineers to bui…
Hong Kong's tech chief Sun Dong warned that artificial intelligence will trigger the 'greatest industrial revolution,' surpassing all previous ones, and will significantly impact graduates and workers in traditional sect…
Researchers introduced TheraJudge and TheraAgent, a framework that uses multi-agent systems and human-aligned evaluation to improve therapeutic quality in mental health support LLMs, achieving a +0.43 improvement in clin…
Researchers introduced a framework using generative AI agents to automate black-box audits of personalization algorithms, deploying 1,120 agents on X after the 2024 U.S. election. They found that X's algorithmic feed amp…
Researchers at arXiv identify a failure mode in large language models called deductive stereotyping, where models apply population-level statistics to individuals, producing biased inferences. They propose Fair-GCG, a re…
Ireland's upcoming EU presidency is compromised by its deep ties to big tech, with the Irish state and economy captured by companies like Google, Meta, and Apple. The country's data protection commission has failed to co…
Seoul stocks erased early gains and fell 3.21% late Wednesday morning as investors sold off semiconductors and large-cap tech shares, driven by BlackRock's downgrade of emerging-market equities over AI concentration risk…