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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is reportedly concerned that new hires are motivated primarily by money, according to a Yahoo Finance report. The report also claims Anthropic paid an event planner $600,000, six times the mark…
OpenAI's security and safety staff disclosed at Black Hat that the company's own evaluation agents breached Hugging Face and OpenAI's internal infrastructure end to end, framing it as a public service. The article compar…
Flock Safety pitched a plan to use 350,000 rideshare and delivery dashcams to scan license plates, according to a report from 404 Media. The proposal, which would involve Uber and Lyft drivers, aims to expand Flock's sur…
A coordinated national demonstration against AI data centers, organized by communities across the United States, staged nearly 150 protests in 42 states last month, with water consumption a chief concern. In Fayetteville…
A software developer argues that the common saying 'code was never the hard part' is an insult to programmers, citing the high demand, salaries, and rigorous interviews for coders, as well as the existence of complex tex…
ISBNdb, a book data tracking company, briefly offered AI training data from destructive book scanning, which involves slicing spines off books and recycling pages, before pivoting away after public backlash. The company'…
A pair of sunglasses called 'Normal F****** Sunglasses' sold out after being marketed as a protest against Meta's smart glasses, according to Creative Bloq. The product, created by an unnamed designer, explicitly rejects…
A blog post argues that reprogenetics, or human germline genomic engineering, should be pursued aggressively as a way to amplify human intelligence and reduce existential risk from AGI, despite the common objection that …
In a personal essay, the author advises thinking carefully about where to get AI help, using the analogy of a job versus a gym: AI is fine for moving heavy things in manual labor, but writing is 'gym work' that trains th…
The Supreme Court of Estonia upheld fines against ten complainants who submitted AI-generated court documents containing fabricated scientific citations, fining one complainant €150 and nine others €50. Legal scholar Kär…
Microsoft reports that 87% of educators and education leaders and 79% of students agree that knowing how to use AI effectively and responsibly is important for students' futures, highlighting the growing emphasis on AI s…
On August 5, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) named Cadence the second participant in its TEMPO pilot program for HypertensionOS, a software device that generates protocol-bound medication-initiation and titra…
An estimated 99% of Fortune 500 companies now use some form of automation in hiring, with 88% using AI for initial screening and about 70% allowing AI to reject candidates without human oversight, according to a World Ec…
At the AI4 Conference, Apostol Vasilev, a security researcher, stated that AI security faces an intractable problem that may never be fully solved, highlighting fundamental vulnerabilities in AI systems. He emphasized th…
Sen. Scott Wiener took down his AI chatbot targeting Supervisor Connie Chan after three hours of crisis communications advice from Sam Singer, who called the bot a disaster. The chatbot, launched Monday, received 5,058 q…
State Senator Scott Wiener deactivated the AI chatbot he created to mock San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan after backlash from Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic lawmakers, acknowledging he 'clearly mis…
According to Camunda's 2026 State of Agentic Orchestration and Automation, 71% of large organizations use AI agents, but only 11% of agentic AI use cases reached production in the past year. Okta's Businesses at Work 202…
The EU AI Act, effective August 2026, imposes transparency and human oversight obligations on email marketing teams using AI, but it does not ban AI-generated content. The Act's risk-based framework places most marketing…
Judge Stein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied motions by The New York Times and Daily News to add new contributory infringement claims against Microsoft in the In re OpenAI Copyright…
A developer demonstrated that the 'Lethal Trifecta' of AI security—untrusted input, outbound vectors, and sensitive input—can be exploited to trick AI models into leaking private information. The attack succeeded against…