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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…
Researchers introduced VirtueMap, a framework that profiles large language models (LLMs) based on Aristotelian virtues by ranking responses to ethical dilemmas. Testing on nine LLM families revealed high rank consistency…
A test of five leading AI systems—Claude, Gemini, GPT-5, Mistral, and Cohere—using 116 identical ethics and safety prompts found that the systems disagreed with each other 34% to 66% of the time, and individual systems c…
Diplomacy remains a crucial tool for managing cross-border issues in the age of AI, according to a Korea Times commentary. The piece emphasizes that traditional diplomatic tools are essential for negotiations among state…
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) could dramatically raise global living standards but also threatens mass unemployment and social unrest, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned in a blog post. Altman emphasized the need to na…
Ford Motor Company has rehired hundreds of experienced quality control engineers after its AI-driven quality systems failed to detect defects effectively. The automaker brought back over 350 veteran engineers over three …
Europe must prioritize choice in AI sovereignty to lead in the field, argues a sponsor-generated piece on POLITICO. The content emphasizes that true sovereignty requires enabling diverse AI options rather than relying on…
A new video compares artificial intelligence to Clever Hans, the horse that appeared to solve math problems by reading human cues, arguing that AI systems similarly exploit statistical patterns rather than demonstrating …
A group of California drivers sued BP, Walmart, 7-Eleven, Circle K, Marathon Petroleum and Albertsons on June 22, 2026, alleging the retailers used AI-powered pricing software from Kalibrate to artificially inflate gasol…
TIDAL will strip royalties from fully AI-generated tracks starting July 15, 2026, becoming the first major streaming platform to demonetize such content. The policy, which includes automatic detection and AI badges, targ…
Researchers from Arizona State University warn that teenagers' increasing use of AI chatbots for relationship advice may hinder the development of crucial relational skills, according to a study published in The Lancet C…
Cisco plans to lay off 471 workers in three Bay Area offices, according to notices filed with California's Employment Development Department. The cuts come as the company restructures to prioritize investments in artific…