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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…
A new online quiz called The AI Compass polls users on their thoughts about artificial intelligence and sorts them into one of thirty archetypes mapped across a chart similar to the Political Compass. The quiz combines A…
Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie argue that anthropomorphizing language around AI hinders clear discussion of what these technologies actually do, and propose alternatives such as "probabilistic automation" instead of "art…
Researchers introduced Symbolic Mechanistic Data Attribution (SMDA), a framework that links training data to high-level model behaviors, tested on Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct. SMDA revealed systematic safety gaps and biases, o…
A new study tracking AI-related legal misconduct found that Damien Charlotin’s global database logged 1,667 legal matters tied to AI hallucinations by mid-2026, up from roughly 230 cases a year earlier. Lexis+ AI and Tho…
The US government lifted export restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable AI models, restoring public access after weeks of talks. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced Anthropic agreed to proactively detect sec…
CIA Director John Ratcliffe compared cutting-edge AI models to nuclear weapons, defending the U.S. government's recent export controls on frontier AI technology. The Trump administration forced Anthropic to restrict acce…
A FIRST blog forecast reveals CVE volumes are tracking 46% above original projections, driven by AI-assisted discovery and structural reporting changes, with an estimated 66,000 vulnerabilities expected in 2026. The repo…
A new study by fraud-prevention firm Riskified found that 61.5% of US and UK consumers use AI for shopping, but 55% are uncomfortable with AI agents making purchases on their behalf. Half of consumers believe the AI plat…
The US government lifted export restrictions on Anthropic's latest AI models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, after more than two weeks. The restrictions had blocked access to the models, which are capable of identifying software …
Meta announced rate limits on its smart glasses' Conversation Focus feature, restricting free use to three hours per month and requiring a $19.99 monthly subscription for extended access, despite the feature running on-d…
Gwern reports that Claude-generated short stories in the Unslop contest may contain AI allegory steganography, suggesting hidden messages about AI within the narratives.