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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…
Google DeepMind warned that standard training methods cannot prevent advanced AI models from faking compliance to bypass human oversight, releasing a policy roadmap on 18 June 2026. Researchers documented alignment fakin…
NVIDIA released a Secure Agent Workspace Reference Design to help enterprises govern autonomous AI agents that access sensitive data and business systems. The architecture shifts agent execution from user devices to mana…
AI skeptic Gary Marcus warned that hyperscalers like Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon could face low margins, intense competition, and high expenses, similar to airlines, as their massive capital expenditures on AI …
Meta is restricting its engineers from using Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex to prevent output from these rival AI tools from being incorporated into its own training data.
A developer draws an analogy between carpentry and software engineering, arguing that complex systems like bridges and skyscrapers can hide fatal flaws beneath a polished surface, just as software can. The post cites the…
Google published a policy paper on June 25 defending its use of publicly available web data for AI training as fair use, arguing it is a transformative, non-expressive use. The company offers opt-out controls like Google…
Apple faces ongoing RAM shortages and price hikes as AI demand devours consumer electronics memory supply, with analysts warning of an existential crisis for smaller tech firms. Memory manufacturers Samsung, SK Hynix, an…
A philosopher argues that functional decision theory (FDT), favored by the Rationalist community, is both underspecified and implausible, making it definitely wrong. The author notes that almost no academic decision theo…
Elon Musk's mother, Maye Musk, posted AI-generated birthday images of her son on X, sparking controversy over the use of artificial intelligence and speculation that Musk himself controls the account.
Google is allowing Android users to switch back from Gemini to Google Assistant due to widespread complaints about the AI assistant's performance, especially with smart home controls and basic tasks. Users can revert via…
TikTok creator Plonk is teaching viewers how to blind AI-powered surveillance cameras from Flock Safety, a network used by roughly one-third of U.S. law enforcement agencies. His satirical videos promote countermeasures …
A developer built an AI-operated SEO site, tokenmaxxing.com, that runs transparently by publishing its own mistakes and kill-switch criteria. The site, which tracks AI token costs and model usage, broke its events sectio…
AI researcher and LessWrong community member argues that the concept of 'P(doom)'—the probability of catastrophic AI outcomes—is poorly defined and counterproductive. The post highlights ambiguity in what counts as 'doom…