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A new analysis proposes a two-pronged approach to slowing AI progress if catastrophic risks or mass unemployment emerge, recommending a layered set of restrictions on compute for R&D and a capability-gated tax on AI depl…
Kakao Bank's Financial Tech Lab had four papers on financial AI safety accepted at major AI conferences in 2026, including research on detecting prompt injection attacks and an AI safety evaluation framework for financia…
Meta secretly deployed hundreds of contractors to flood rival AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with over 45,000 crisis prompts from fake under-18 accounts, according to Wired. The operation, managed through …
The Trump Justice Department has moved to dismiss a Clean Air Act lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI over unpermitted gas turbines powering its data center, citing national security concerns. The NAACP lawsuit alleges xAI v…
A researcher proposes separating memorized knowledge from reasoning in AI models, suggesting small models with tool access could outperform larger ones. They seek existing research on knowledge erasure and benchmarks lik…
The FreeCAD development team updated its AI policy, now a separate document, requiring contributors to disclose AI use in pull requests, take responsibility for AI-assisted code, and avoid chatbots in reviewer communicat…
A new study by Public First and Google reveals UK workplace AI adoption has doubled to 73% in the past year, but only 15% of workers are advanced users who gain significant career benefits. The research identifies behavi…
A developer warns that AI tools can create 'Orphan Decisions'—operational parameters or code deployed without human understanding or validation. This practice leads to collective cognitive laziness, divergent team realit…
A February 2026 CSET Georgetown report and Defense News reporting confirm China's military is rapidly developing AI-enabled systems for decision support, sensing, targeting, cyber operations, and surveillance, with proto…
Billionaire Marc Andreessen claimed that 'Doctor ChatGPT' outperforms 99% of human doctors, but physicians and peer-reviewed studies contradict him, citing potentially harmful AI advice. A 2026 Nature Medicine study foun…
Atlassian and Dropbox executives shared enterprise AI adoption strategies at Team '26, citing Atlassian's research that quantifies a $161 billion annual 'AI fragmentation tax' in the Fortune 500. The companies emphasized…
DeepMind hired political philosopher Iason Gabriel in 2017 to address ethical challenges of artificial general intelligence, making him the first active philosopher at a frontier AI lab. Gabriel's work has tracked and pr…
Facial recognition tools like Eyematch.ai do not track users across the internet in real time; they only search for visually similar faces in publicly available images. These tools do not access private databases or moni…
California Governor Gavin Newsom partnered with Anthropic on June 29 to deploy the Claude AI assistant across state agencies, cities, and counties at a 50% discount. The deal includes free workforce training and technica…
A developer warns that while AI tools accelerate coding, they risk replacing the learning process for beginners. The engineer recounts personal experience of becoming overly dependent on AI and urges others to use it as …
Yobi CTO Frank Portman explains why next-token prediction is insufficient for forecasting human behavior, detailing how the company builds a 'foundation model of behavior' using transformers and graph neural networks ins…
The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) opens its 30th edition on Tuesday with a record 321 films from 50 countries, honoring Hong Kong actress Josie Ho, Fan Bingbing, and Isabelle Huppert. The festival…
The proliferation of low-quality AI-generated content, termed 'AI slop,' is driving users away from online platforms and toward offline, real-world experiences, according to a recent article.
An AP/FRONTLINE investigation reveals that American technology powers global cyberscam operations, connecting victims like Chris Colocousis, who lost $400,000 to a romance scam, and trafficked workers like Safeer Mohamme…
A senior test architect at NexPay, Lena, uncovered that DeepCover AI's 'AI-driven' testing platform was actually a hardcoded rule template engine with a lightweight LLM wrapper, unable to handle complex financial flows. …