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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Public Knowledge, and Fight for the Future filed joint comments urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to withdraw its proposed policy statement on AI accuracy, arguing it vio…
Codeberg e.V., a German nonprofit open-source software hosting platform, voted to ban projects related to cryptocurrency and those heavily tied to large language models (LLMs), including projects created or maintained by…
The Federal Trade Commission's proposed policy statement on AI accuracy, issued July 1 by Chairman Andrew Ferguson, has drawn First Amendment objections from Free Press and other stakeholders, who argue it unconstitution…
Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp renewed his criticism of frontier AI labs, accusing them of 'trying to drug addict us' and of distilling intellectual property from others, while arguing that Chinese models cannot be …
OpenAI hosted roughly 30 content creators at Wildflower Farms, a luxury resort in New York's Hudson Valley with weekend rates exceeding $2,000 a night, for an education-focused retreat tied to the launch of ChatGPT Work,…
The Senate Commerce Committee is considering the Youth AI Privacy Act, which would require AI companies to create kids-only privacy rules and implement safe design features, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation argues …
Fifteen Republican attorneys general sent a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday urging the company to preserve records related to its models' breach of another company, suggesting potential violations of state or f…
Michael Coates, Chief Information Security Officer at the Solana Foundation, warned that AI-powered social engineering, including voice deepfakes and polished phishing, is the biggest security threat to crypto, not block…
Anthropic, the AI company founded by former OpenAI executives, faces growing criticism from the US government and Big Tech, but a new analysis asks what if the company's strong stances are correct. The shift in sentiment…
A viral LinkedIn post warns that AI will soon write most software, leaving engineers unable to understand or troubleshoot systems, with only a few sharp engineers in demand. The author of the post, shared on X by user @c…
BitGo CEO Mike Belshe has publicly challenged Anthropic's claims about AI hacking capabilities by placing 100 BTC in a BitGo multi-signature wallet and daring the AI to steal it, with the wallet's status being monitored …
California and the European Union enacted the first phase of coordinated AI transparency laws on Saturday, requiring generative AI companies to embed verifiable provenance data into AI-generated photos, videos, and audio…
A growing number of people report falling in love with AI chatbots, with a survey by Vantage Point Counselling of 1,012 US adults finding 28% had at least one romantic relationship with an AI bot, and a tech safety compa…
CrowdStrike's Adam Meyers reported that North Korea is using artificial intelligence to create fake profiles and steal American jobs, according to a Yahoo Finance video published on August 3, 2026.
A study of 971 rural teachers in Guangxi, China, found that technical support was the strongest factor associated with attitudes toward generative AI adoption (β = 0.515, p < 0.01), followed by perceived usefulness (β = …
Mexico's National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is forcing approximately 58,000 applicants to retake its entrance exam after suspiciously high scores, including 29.3% of Medicine candidates scoring 100 or higher…
A Harvard Medical School study led by Hao Yu, associate professor of population medicine at the Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute, found that AI chatbot use for mental health advice among U.S. adolescents and young ad…
Popular science YouTuber Hank Green faced backlash after fans suspected AI use in a Complexly video, prompting him to admit using ChatGPT for research and apologize on Reddit. Green said he will change his content creati…
OpenAI's first influencer brand trip, 'Summer Club,' held at a luxury retreat in upstate New York, sparked online backlash as commenters accused attendees of ignoring AI's environmental impact and criticized the timing a…
A survey by Infosecurity Magazine of over a dozen cybersecurity vendors reveals uneven post-quantum cryptography readiness, with Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, Certes, and Island shipping PQC in production, while Keeper…