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The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) will require roughly 58,000 undergraduate applicants to retake an in-person control exam after its first fully remote admissions test produced a surge in high scores, w…
AI tools are enabling architecture students and professionals to produce polished design work faster than their judgment can mature, risking presentations that look more resolved than the thinking behind them, according …
A security researcher reported on January 28, 2026, that tl;dv, an AI meeting recording platform with over 2 million users, left its Firestore database unprotected, exposing 181,874 meeting records from 84,312 users acro…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sparked backlash from parents on X after suggesting families use ChatGPT to generate a daily podcast about their kids' schedules and interests for the drive to school. Critics, including Gravity Fal…
Black Hat 2026 showcased cybersecurity vendors moving beyond AI copilots to integrate AI into operational workflows, with ArmorCode expanding its Agentic Control Plane with four new Anya AI agents, Cribl introducing an A…
President Trump signed an executive order on December 11, 2025, directing the Department of Justice to challenge state AI laws, and Attorney General Pam Bondi established the AI Litigation Task Force on January 9, 2026, …
Palantir Technologies reported soaring second-quarter profits and revenue growth, with shares jumping about 15% in after-market trading, driven by enterprise demand for AI control, according to CEO Alex Karp. Karp critic…
A blogger expressed growing frustration with AI-generated images on personal blogs, stating they prefer hand-drawn Microsoft Paint drawings over AI images and worry that the presence of such images suggests the text may …
LinkedIn has introduced a 'Seems like AI slop' reporting button, allowing users to flag posts they believe are AI-generated. A developer who writes with AI assistance argues that the button encourages false accusations, …
OpenAI published a blog post titled "Apple is getting this wrong" on August 5, 2026, countering Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit by releasing iMessage and email exchanges. Apple filed the lawsuit last month alleging former …
Shift Up CEO Kim Hyung-tae defended the AI-generated music video for Stellar Blade: Blood Rain, stating that the character Evie was originally "created from head to toe" by the developers, but fans argue that the use of …
On March 31, 2026, Chaofan Shou discovered that Anthropic's Claude Code source code was exposed via a sourcemap file in the npm package, revealing the entire source code of the AI coding CLI. The leak includes a Tamagotc…
OpenAI has publicly rebutted Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, calling the allegations 'careless, aggressive and oddly personal' in a blog post on August 3, 2026. Apple filed the lawsuit on July 10, 2026, claiming OpenAI co…
OnlyFans creators are warning that AI-generated deepfakes are impersonating them to scam fans and create safety risks, with some fans sending money to scammers and others showing up at creators' homes. Elaina St. James, …
A comparison of two personal-data detection models by an unnamed company reversed when the evaluation dataset changed, showing that benchmark choice can flip conclusions. On the company's own 1,800-example corpus, its ex…
OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, published a blog post titled 'Apple is getting this wrong' responding to Apple's lawsuit alleging trade secret theft, stating that Apple's claims are based on misunderstandings, including that …
Tinder has paused its AI-powered Photo Enhance tool in the United States after users complained it altered their appearance, with one user calling it 'extremely violating' and 'scary.' The feature, which was in a test ph…
Socket's Threat Research Team reported an active supply chain attack on August 4, 2026, that compromised the npm packages keyv and cacheable, affecting tens of millions of weekly downloads. The attack used a malicious pr…
Spirit AI's Spirit v1.6 model briefly topped the RoboArena robotics benchmark in early June, surpassing Nvidia, but was removed days later after the benchmark's creators found evidence of 'benchmark hacking' and overhaul…
Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced on Monday that patches generated by large language models (LLMs) will be automatically rejected for the drivers/staging/ subsystem, except for genuine security fixes t…