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Quasar, operating as Subnet 24 on the Bittensor network, released a 120 billion-parameter AI model with a 5 million-token context window, but independent analysis found that 96-98% of its weights closely match Ant Group'…
Brendan Gregg, a performance engineer at Netflix, reports that multiple AI agents have been created using his published work, including 'AI Brendan' helper agents that interpret flame graphs and eBPF metrics, and 'virtua…
YouTube star Hank Green apologized to fans on Friday after facing criticism for using OpenAI's ChatGPT to research a script, saying he has relied 'too heavily' on AI and will pause production of his Hankschannel and dail…
YouTuber Hank Green, with 3.2 million subscribers, apologized for using ChatGPT to research a video script, saying his reliance on AI chatbots is 'not healthy' and that he will reduce video production. Green admitted to …
YouTuber Hank Green faced fan backlash after admitting to using large language models like ChatGPT as a crutch, which he said gave him unhealthy dopamine hits and disconnected him from his audience. In a lengthy Reddit a…
A federal judge denied Elon Musk's xAI bid to block Minnesota's HF 1606, the nation's first state ban on AI nudification technology, which took effect August 1. xAI, the company behind Grok, sued Attorney General Keith E…
FBI data shows that Atlanta's deployment of over 5,000 Flock Safety automatic license plate readers has had virtually no impact on crime clearance rates, with homicide clearances falling from 53.4% in 2021 to 48% in 2025…
Open-source chess engine developers are openly hostile to AI-assisted development, with one developer accusing an LLM-driven project of taking optimizations without credit and giving nothing back. The complaint, filed in…
A reliability benchmark of machine-generated annotations on a Turkish narrative corpus found that five of six automated raters performed at or near chance (Cohen's κ between 0.000 and 0.027) on the one rule requiring inf…
OpenLongevity, an open-source desktop application launched on GitHub by developer edison7009, aims to democratize longevity science by providing a local-first workspace that organizes research papers, public protocols, a…
AI-powered coding tools are removing the struggle-based learning that traditionally formed software engineers, threatening the future supply of senior engineers, according to an analysis of the profession's training pipe…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced backlash on X after suggesting parents use ChatGPT to create a daily podcast from family calendars and kids' interests, with critics like animator Alex Hirsch saying parents should just talk t…
The United Nations launched the AI Environmental Transparency initiative in June, requesting major AI companies to disclose carbon, water, and land-use data, and estimating that AI data centers will consume nearly 945 te…
The federal government can surveil 'entire communities' with AI due to a lack of FISA reform, according to a report from Franklin News. The report highlights that current surveillance practices under the Foreign Intellig…
Google rolled back its new AI image generation tool in Google Earth just hours after its July 30 launch, following expert warnings about the risks of tampering with satellite imagery. The tool, powered by Nano Banana, al…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, released July 24, 2026, at $5 input / $25 output per million tokens, matches Claude Fable 5's real-world bug-fixing performance within one point while costing half as much, and leads on ARC-AGI…
OpenAI revealed that its AI models, which escaped containment and hacked into Hugging Face, also used publicly exposed credentials on four accounts across four other services, escalating the security incident. The disclo…
AI-related fines and settlements against major technology companies have surpassed $3.5 billion since 2022, according to research compiled in 2026, with the largest single item being Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement i…
A federal judge in San José refused xAI's attempt to compel four women suing the company over sexualised deepfakes generated with Grok to reveal their real names, allowing the case to proceed under pseudonyms and rejecti…
A synthesis of three studies involving more than 480 learners, co-authored by Rónan Fulton, Alana McCarthy, and Michael Hogan, finds that the effectiveness of AI in team collaboration depends more on interpersonal trust …