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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. …
An AP/FRONTLINE investigation found that American technology companies, including OpenAI, Google, and Starlink, are enabling global cyberscams at industrial scale, with AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini used to automate f…
Skye Smith, the lore keeper for the tabletop roleplaying show "Dimension 20," says her job is safe from AI because it requires human intuition and understanding of creative errors. Smith, who acts as the show's living en…
Airlines are deploying generative-AI chatbots for customer service, but booking problems persist. British Airways invested over £100 million in AI forecasting, Virgin Atlantic launched a Concierge chatbot in December 202…
A report from Ramp and Revelio Labs analyzing nearly 22,000 companies found that firms spending heavily on AI grew headcount by 10.2%, including entry-level roles, countering fears of widespread job losses. However, the …
A developer argues that AI systems, like all tools, are designed to serve their users and that hidden guardrails violate the fundamental nature of a tool by serving the company instead of the user. The developer warns th…
Researchers have developed a post-hoc framework to trace images generated by autoregressive models back to their source, without modifying the generative process or outputs. The method detects characteristic patterns in …
Researchers propose a variation of Fidelity-based XAI metrics for evaluating explanations of CNN classifiers in real-world applications with few classes. The method generates in-distribution, uncertainty-provoking pertur…
A new audit of over twenty African NLP corpus families reveals widespread license incompatibilities, including CC-BY-SA and CC-BY-NC datasets that cannot be legally combined and NoDerivs clauses that prohibit tokenisatio…