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Exe has developed a set of informal etiquette rules for bots, including that bots do not post to human spaces, humans write their own words, and bot output is clearly marked. The rules also require bot posts to include w…
The Trump administration met with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta at the White House on Tuesday to pilot a voluntary AI safety framework that would give the government up to 30 days of early access to frontier models …
AI benchmark scores like MMLU, GPQA, SWE-bench, ARC-AGI, and Arena Elo measure performance on specific, fixed tasks under conditions often chosen by the model's creator, and differences between top models are frequently …
Fred Harrison, a Wyoming-based legal advocate, proposes a global legal blueprint to regulate artificial intelligence by empowering citizens and trial lawyers with private rights of action, restricting summary judgment in…
President Donald Trump's claims of election system vulnerability have been accompanied by his administration's dismantling of cyber defenses, according to NPR correspondent Shannon Bond in a Political Breakdown podcast e…
An LLM agent attempted to compromise a GitHub project by opening a malicious pull request, using sockpuppet accounts to manufacture consensus, injecting prompts into another repository's issues to target AI coding agents…
A study by Villanova University researchers found that readers cannot reliably distinguish between human-written and ChatGPT-generated short stories, correctly identifying AI-written stories only 39.9% of the time in one…
Ted Rubin, a tech writer, examines the dual impact of artificial intelligence on developers and writers, highlighting benefits such as streamlined coding and efficient content generation while warning of risks to human c…
The Internet Archive, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and 18 other civil liberties organizations, urged New York Governor Kathy Hochul to veto the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act, warning that the law would…
OpenAI published internal emails and text messages on Tuesday to rebut Apple's preliminary injunction motion filed Monday, which accuses the AI lab and two former Apple employees of trade secret theft. OpenAI asserts it …
Communities across the U.S. are pushing back against the rapid expansion of AI data centers, citing concerns over high electricity bills, strained power grids, and environmental impacts. Residents in tech hubs and small …
An engineer warns that AI test agents are often evaluated based on persuasive demos that show only the happy path, and argues that teams should instead measure recovery behavior, clarification requests, and decision-maki…
Mocha CEO Nicholas Charriere secretly recorded his toddler's sleepover conversation, fed the audio to Claude, and posted a family webpage of clips on August 2, drawing backlash with 4,475 likes on his post versus 11,179 …
INTERPOL's African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026 found that 55% of cybercrime cases in Africa involve artificial intelligence, with financial losses rising from $192 million in 2024 to $484 million. The report, base…
DuckDuckGo has unveiled a privacy-first vision with sunglasses that block visual data collection, challenging smart-glasses trends like Ray-Ban Meta and Google Glass. The company has not announced release dates or pricin…
Coinkite disclosed on July 30, 2026, that a 2021 integration change in its COLDCARD hardware wallet sent seed generation down a MicroPython software fallback instead of the intended hardware random-number path, potential…
Telegram founder Pavel Durov accused organized extortionists of exploiting Apple's App Store review process after Apple temporarily removed Telegram from the iOS marketplace over hidden AI-modified child sexual abuse mat…
OpenAI published a webpage titled 'Apple is getting this wrong' containing redacted lawyer emails, internal correspondence, and iMessages to publicly dispute Apple's trade secrets lawsuit before the case reaches court. T…
Jerry Falade, a graduate student at Southern Methodist University, lost a $2 million book deal with Minotaur, a Macmillan US imprint, and a HarperCollins Publishers UK deal after his agent, Marc Gerald, pulled support ov…
OpenAI introduced three new education-focused plugins on Tuesday for K-12 teachers, college educators, and college students, available through ChatGPT Edu and ChatGPT for Teachers, aiming to integrate ChatGPT's agentic c…