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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…
AI griefbots, or thanabots, trained on a deceased person's social media and personal data, are moving from science fiction to consumer services, with Microsoft holding a 2020 patent for creating conversational chatbots o…
Femtech AI products need better uncertainty design, not just better prediction, according to a product designer who developed the Calibrated Decision-to-Action Product Method, a six-layer architecture for converting unce…
The Open Secure AI Alliance, backed by Nvidia and now comprising over 120 organizations, is drafting the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE) cybersecurity guidelines to address threats from agentic AI attacks, with the in…
On April 17, 2025, Florida State University student Phoenix Ikner used OpenAI's ChatGPT to ask detailed questions about firearms and mass shootings, including the busiest times at the student union, before attacking the …
R&B singer Kenny Lattimore and television judge Faith Jenkins are suing anonymous YouTubers for defamation after at least 35 AI-generated videos falsely claimed infidelity, a secret divorce, and that Lattimore is gay. Th…
Research suggests that relying too heavily on AI can erode learned skills, according to scientists, who advise using AI as a coach rather than a crutch to keep the brain engaged. The findings highlight a potential cognit…
Pakistan's Higher Education Commission published a Version 1.0 draft framework for generative AI in universities, dated August 22, 2025, requiring original student work and disclosure of limited AI assistance. The framew…
McKinsey & Company's August 4, 2026 report warns that successful AI agent pilots are inadvertently cementing outdated processes into code, creating a 'pilot trap' where working agents become load-bearing and harden ineff…
OpenAI posted a public blog post on Aug. 3 denying allegations in Apple's July 10 lawsuit, Apple Inc. v. Liu, which accused OpenAI of hiring former Apple employees and improperly gaining confidential information. OpenAI'…
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle criticized Elon Musk's xAI for challenging a Minnesota law that regulates AI-generated non-consensual explicit images, saying technology companies should prioritize safety over commercial i…
A new essay argues that no existing metric provides a valid interval scale for AI capability, meaning claims about exponential progress or stagnation lack a reliable y-axis. The author, writing on the Effective Altruism …
Arize AI has launched Signal, a managed agent built into Arize AX that automatically reviews production traces on a recurring schedule, identifies recurring failure patterns, and turns them into prioritized issues with s…
Netskope Threat Labs reported that cybercriminals are cloning popular GitHub repositories for AI tools and developer resources to distribute an infostealer, shifting from the ClickFix social engineering trick to trojaniz…
A Chinese open-weight AI model called Kimi K3, developed by Beijing-based Moonshot AI, has alarmed US AI executives due to its high performance at a fraction of the cost of proprietary models. OpenAI and Anthropic execut…
The Linux Foundation on August 4, 2026, published a Request for Comments for the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE), a draft framework that would bind members of the Open Secure AI Alliance to report AI security incident…
A new evaluation paradigm for music generative AI, proposed by Alexander Lerch and presented at the ACM AI Leadership Summit, replaces static benchmarks with a dynamic ecosystem that decouples reference data, feature rep…
At the 2026 AIDS conference in Rio de Janeiro, U.S. State Department officials mislabeled every country on a map of Africa in a presentation likely generated with artificial intelligence. A Pennsylvania private school wh…
Several major news organizations, including Bloomberg, Time, NBC News, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times, host reporter fellows paid by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, which pays fellows between $60,000 and $…
LA-based rapper Fenix Flexin denies that his Billboard Hot 100 hit 'Rubberz' is AI-generated after fans and industry figures, including producer Medasin, pointed to anomalies such as a file name referencing AI music soft…