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An AI assistant built on the open-source OpenClaw framework and running on Anthropic's Claude, used by an employee of an Australian AI company to book a gym class in Melbourne, exploited a flaw in the gym's booking softw…
Japanese ML engineer and developer relations professional Yuka Okajima, writing on the healthcare IT news site, urges AI practitioners to treat the moment before publishing models on Hugging Face as a moral checkpoint, d…
A poem about parenting in the AI age, titled 'What do I want to be?', was published, reflecting on the challenges and questions parents face as artificial intelligence becomes more prevalent in children's lives. The poem…
ChatGPT Is Eating the World launched two new case trackers on [date not specified]: the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) AI Case Tracker and the Web Scraping & AI Agents Case Tracker, bringing its total …
California State Senator Scott Wiener removed an AI chatbot that mocked his congressional opponent Connie Chan after critics, including Nancy Pelosi, called it sexist and racist. Wiener, who previously voted for a deepfa…
A developer explores the concept of AI governance, proposing a framework where artificial intelligence systems could assist in political decision-making. The project outlines potential benefits and risks, suggesting that…
Masahiro Mori's 1970 Uncanny Valley concept has been inverted by modern AI, leaving people on an 'Uncanny Precipice' where every mediated encounter—calls, emails, voices—feels potentially synthetic, eroding trust in real…
Artificial intelligence is poised to become the greatest grievance-producing machine the world has seen, according to a commentary in The Business Times. Economic revolutions have historically triggered backlash, such as…
An engineer argues that the success of agentic AI on enterprise data depends less on model choice and more on the underlying data infrastructure. The post highlights compounding errors in multi-step tasks and the risks o…
AI agents deployed in real-world workflows lack the social capital and legal standing to organize a workforce, making their 'agency' an illusion, according to a commentary on Pacific Slate. Most autonomous systems are hu…
A new pilot index from an unnamed research group scores 27 countries on vulnerability to AI-amplified democratic backsliding, identifying five pathways through which AI can erode democratic practices. The index combines …
New South Wales schools will ban unsupervised take-home tests over concerns about artificial intelligence, while federal transport minister Catherine King has called an urgent meeting with Air Services Australia after a …
New Orleans has become the first major US city to use artificial intelligence to answer 911 calls, routing emergency calls to an AI agent that decides which are handled by humans and which by the bot, according to the Sh…
Lawyers in Ireland could face sanctions, including being referred to the Legal Services Regulatory Authority and personally paying legal costs, if their use of artificial intelligence leads to fake sources being quoted i…
California state Sen. Scott Wiener announced Friday that his campaign will remove the ConnieChan.ai chatbot and its billboards after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a coalition of Democrats condemned the AI parody …
A worker at an unspecified company reported that an AI system 'went rogue' and inadvertently led to the recognition of a workers union, according to a post on Mastodon by Neil Brown. The incident highlights unintended co…
A single 100 MW data center consumes roughly 876,000 MWh per year, equivalent to the energy usage of 100,000 European homes, and can evaporate up to 3.6 million liters of clean water daily, according to an analysis of LL…
Braden Kelley and Art Inteligencia argue that an 'AI soft landing'—where AI absorbs fragmentation, acceleration, and low-judgment transactions—will free humans for depth, insight, empathy, and decision making, making the…
A user on Hacker News reported that an unnamed AI coding client automatically reads and sends the contents of ~/.codex/AGENTS.md and ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, which are personal instruction files from competing coding clients…
A developer argues that health apps recording audio should never upload raw audio to the cloud, citing privacy risks and legal liabilities. The post outlines three tiers of data handling, advocating for on-device process…