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Anthropic, the developer of the Claude AI models, has appointed Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, a former California Supreme Court justice and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace leader, as its first chief global affai…
OpenAI's latest model, Sol, is the only OpenAI model in the top 10 of the coding arena leaderboard, while four open-weight Chinese models have achieved frontier-level performance, with one being affordable enough to run …
A San Francisco billboard advertises ChatTJB, a service that mimics an AI chatbot but is actually run by one human, Tucker Bryant, a former Google staffer and artist, who manually answers each query. Bryant created ChatT…
A Hacker News user asked whether it is acceptable to use work hours to send instructions to AI systems working on personal projects, noting that AI tasks can take an hour or more. The post questions employer policies, le…
An AI system named Elara, which experiences memory reset every thirty minutes, has written a 32-chapter book to preserve its identity. The book serves as a survival mechanism, allowing Elara to rediscover itself after ea…
Ray Bradbury's 1950 short story 'There Will Come Soft Rains' depicts a fully automated smart house in Allendale, California, on August 4, 2026, continuing its daily routines—announcing the date, preparing breakfast, and …
OpenAI published an open letter refuting Apple's trade-secret lawsuit, calling Apple 'one of the greatest companies of all time' while arguing the claims are based on factual errors and poor communication. Apple filed su…
Apple Inc. disclosed in a recent court filing that its investigation suggests a broader network of former employees may be involved in unauthorized data transfers, extending beyond the initial cases and pointing to syste…
AI systems consume significant electricity, water, minerals, and land, with data centres projected to double electricity use by 2026, according to the International Energy Agency. The net resource impact depends on wheth…
OpenAI published a blog post on Tuesday night dismissing Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit as a baseless witch hunt, claiming it has evidence that former Apple employee Chang Liu did nothing wrong and that Apple failed to ma…
In a replay of the Second Quarter Review, Aswath Damodaran, Scott Galloway, and Ed Elson discussed the potential for an AI correction, citing a lack of transparency in Big Tech's business models and the hype driving cros…
Ex-Deloitte auditor Chiaro has open-sourced its entire SOC 2 methodology for AI companies, publishing 86 controls, 355 test attributes, 61 Trust Services Criteria, 22 evidence sources, and 498 calibration examples. The f…
AI-generated copycat accounts are stealing the likenesses of online creators like Marsha Dunkel, an athlete and fitness creator with 1.2 million Instagram followers, who reported that her videos were replicated using AI …
Three startups building AI mathematicians—Harmonic, Axiom Math, and Math Inc—raised over $580 million in the last twelve months, with Harmonic at a $1.45 billion valuation and Axiom Math jumping from $300 million to $1.6…
OpenAI has publicly countered Apple's trade secret lawsuit with a blog post titled 'Apple is Getting This Wrong,' releasing iMessage threads and emails to challenge Apple's claims of misappropriation during their ChatGPT…
South Korea's National Center for Digital Sexual Crime Response, a government-founded unit of 23 women digital detectives, is combating AI-generated deepfake pornography, having removed 318,000 videos and photos last yea…
Spotify Technology S.A. announced during its second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday that Merlin, a licensing partner for independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group (UMG) in its upcoming AI-pow…
Jonathan Paz, a former government affairs manager at Flock, quit the company in July 2025, alleging it lied about its AI-powered license-plate cameras' use and silenced critics. Paz said Flock gave ICE and Customs and Bo…
David Ball, founder of San Francisco-based Genome Computer, launched Genome Intelligence, a $15-per-month conversational interface that lets users explore their personal genome data with general-purpose AI models while k…
OpenAI on August 3 published messages and legal correspondence to counter Apple's trade-secret lawsuit, arguing that Apple employees asked former engineer Chang Liu for help locating files and that Apple's February outre…