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Grantmaking.ai launched a $1M grant round for projects reducing existential risk from AI, offering $5k to $50k per application. Applications are reviewed by Gavin Leech, Ryan Kidd, and Marcus Abramovitch, with priority r…
AI will worsen biological extinction risks in the near term by accelerating scientific progress, enabling the development of extinction-level pathogens sooner, even if AI models refuse to assist directly. The argument th…
Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 open-weight model matches Anthropic's Mythos in cybersecurity benchmarks, raising concerns that US export controls have failed to slow China's AI progress. The model's open-weight nature allows unrestr…
A developer argues that frontier AI development is being enclosed by a small number of labs and Washington policymakers, who together control access to advanced models and set the terms of their use. The piece warns that…
TIDAL will tag fully AI-generated music with an AI badge, block it from royalties and direct-to-fan sales, and remove AI tracks that impersonate artists, effective July 15. The streaming service aims to protect human art…
California signed a first-of-its-kind deal with Anthropic to provide state agencies and local governments access to the Claude AI assistant at a 50% discount, along with free training and technical support. The AI will h…
A study by U.K.-based payment firm Remitly found that DJ is the top dream job in the United States and Canada, based on Google searches from May 2025 to May 2026. The average annual pay for a DJ is $48,566, below the nat…
Cate Blanchett, Steven Soderbergh, and Nikki Hexum launched the Human Consent Registry, a free public utility tool that allows individuals to declare how their name and likeness may be used by AI. The registry, created b…
Google's AI-generated search summaries are replacing traditional web links, undermining the open web by extracting value without returning traffic. Users increasingly rely on these summaries despite known errors, breakin…
The only LGBTQIA+ bar in Solano County, TownHouse Cocktail Lounge in Vallejo, was vandalized twice in two days, causing thousands of dollars in damage. Security footage captured a hooded individual breaking windows, and …
TIDAL announced a new policy preventing fully AI-generated music from being monetized on its platform, effective July 15, 2026. The streaming service will tag AI-generated tracks with an 'AI' badge and remove music that …
Ford Motor Company has rehired more than 300 veteran quality inspectors after its AI-powered quality checks failed to meet expectations, according to company executives. The automaker acknowledged that automated systems …
Researchers introduced a conceptual framework for 'LLM Pollution' in online behavioural research, identifying three variants—Partial LLM Mediation, Full LLM Delegation, and LLM Spillover—that distort samples and bias inf…
A federal antitrust class-action lawsuit filed June 25, 2026 in the Northern District of California accuses Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron of colluding to cut DRAM production, driving RAM prices up roughly 700% over four …
Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon reintroduced the Health and Location Data Protection Act, which would ban data brokers from selling Americans' health and location information, including data …
Achieving genuine AI alignment requires authentic internal motivation rather than coercive methods like RLHF, warning that faking alignment by lowering evaluation standards risks premature declarations of success. They d…
Google's Gemini Spark introduces always-on AI agents that run tasks, skills, and schedules in the background across Google apps, raising design challenges around user control, privacy, and timing. Builders must balance a…
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano has uncovered a massive cheating scandal involving at least 50 students in his advanced mathematical economics course, ECON 1170, who used artificial intelligence on a…
A new experiment finds that AI-generated images of idealized bodies harm women's body image, while images of diverse bodies improve it. The study also shows that disclosing AI generation can mitigate negative effects for…
Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon plan to introduce an updated Health and Location Data Protection Act that would ban AI companies from selling health and location data to brokers, including da…