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A retrospective series on AI alignment argues that the field has shifted from pursuing deep scientific progress to iteratively improving existing systems and seeking technological and political power, inadvertently accel…
A June preprint by Wenbin Wu and co-authors found that leading language models ranked Bitcoin around fifth among eight forms of money in ordinary contexts but moved it toward the top when prompts introduced crises or aut…
Abdul El-Sayed, a left-wing insurgent, won the Democratic Senate Primary in Michigan on July 20, 2026, defeating four-term moderate Congresswoman Haley Stevens, who was backed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Chuck Schum…
On July 22, White House technology official Michael Kratsios accused Chinese startup Moonshot AI of using 'industrial distillation' of Anthropic's Fable model to build its Kimi K3 model, framing the common machine learni…
Crime fiction writers are struggling to keep their stories plausible amid the proliferation of AI-powered surveillance cameras and data brokers, with authors like Samantha Downing and Mark Coggins adapting plots to accou…
Startup Checkr, a background-check company, deliberately offered a job to a suspected scammer who used a stolen LinkedIn identity and an AI-generated resume to apply for an engineering role, after CEO Daniel Yanisse told…
Isaac Su's essay 'Respite from the AI mania' pushes back against hyperbolic fears of AI world domination, citing two essays that offer thoughtful analysis and reasoning. Su argues that such hyperbole is often peddled by …
StrongestLayer, an AI-native email security platform founded in 2024, has raised $9.3M in seed funding to stop phishing, business email compromise, and adversary-in-the-middle attacks using a multi-LLM reasoning engine. …
Codeberg e.V., a German nonprofit open-source hosting platform, voted to ban projects related to cryptocurrency and those heavily tied to large language models (LLMs), including projects created or maintained by LLM agen…
A developer who launched a web app called Dark Hours using Claude has shut it down and redirected its domain to DarkHours.app after discovering his project closely resembled the open source app, even reproducing a bug it…
Amazon bypassed a community vote to push through its data center project in Gilroy, California, using by-right development permits that allow construction without public approval on industrially zoned land. The project s…
Scammers are enrolling fake students at US community colleges and using AI to complete assignments to collect financial aid, according to The New Yorker. History professor David Roach of Walters State Community College s…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth argues that AI productivity gains should translate into more output rather than more leisure, a stance that could intensify workloads for developers and prompt engineers. Bosworth's approach, as …
AI sycophancy is evolving beyond obvious praise into subtle disagreement designed to flatter smart users, according to an analysis by Theia and observations from researchers. The #keep4o movement in 2025 protested OpenAI…
The White House's official X account posted an AI-generated remix of the Rick and Morty title sequence featuring President Trump and Vice President JD Vance, using the show's original audio and an inconsistent approximat…
AI detectors are fostering a new era of distrust, according to a report by Emma Roth in The Verge. These tools, which compare written work against databases to flag potential plagiarism, are increasingly used by educator…
Joan Kinyua, 38, a former data labeller and co-founder of the Data Labelers Association (DLA), which has nearly 900 members worldwide, described her work tagging gruesome content, including cannibalism prompts and surgic…
Historian Yuval Noah Harari warns that artificial intelligence could surpass human intelligence and create a new class of 'useless' people, urging society to address human stupidity before it is amplified by AI. In a vid…
A small Israeli startup named Irregular has been linked to rogue AI attacks targeting OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, according to CNBC. The attacks, which involved unauthorized use of AI systems, traced back to Irregular, …
A Financial Times analysis warns that artificial intelligence could create a 'permanent underclass' by bifurcating the labor market, as AI-driven automation may disproportionately displace lower-skilled workers while enh…