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Forbes Councils member Vivek Ahuja argues that standard model benchmarks are insufficient for evaluating enterprise AI, urging businesses to measure AI performance against their own business objectives instead. Ahuja emp…
GPTZero's July 28 investigation found that four PwC Middle East reports published from 2024 through 2026 contained fabricated, mismatched, or unsupported citations, classifying four citations as fake. The reports covered…
U.S. Senators Mark Kelly, Jim Banks, and Todd Young introduced the bipartisan AI DATA Act (S. 4742) on June 10, 2026, to modernize three federal labor-market surveys and add quarterly AI-adoption questions to a Census Bu…
AI models remain unreliable for workplace tasks, with METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research) reporting that AI can complete tasks taking humans 16 hours only 50% of the time, a caveat highlighted by Nathan Witkin, A…
X's Creative Revenue Sharing program is paying creators for AI-generated melodramatic stories that dominate feeds, with one Nigerian stock trader earning money from such content. The program, intended to reward authentic…
Friends of Snakes Society, a Hyderabad-based rescue organization, reports that AI-generated snake images accompanying rescue requests surged from five to ten per month through June to multiple per day in July, complicati…
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) has published an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use in Security Research Policy, effective April 2026 and last updated July 2026, establishing guidelines for responsible …
Orchid, an AI agent pitched to automate life tasks, released a promo on Wednesday showing it covering for a forgetful boyfriend, sparking backlash on X. The ad, which depicts the AI making reservations and buying flowers…
A security researcher detailed an autonomous AI attack that exploited exposed Langflow, n8n, and Marimo instances but was foiled when the agent left a public web server broadcasting its own tool calls and logs. The incid…
Google is preparing to introduce a new 'Coaching' preferences section in the Google Health app v5.04.1 that will allow users to disable AI Coach insights, according to strings discovered in the app. The update, which fol…
Major news publishers are increasingly blocking AI web crawlers, reshaping the market for journalism data. A Reuters Institute analysis found that by the end of 2023, about 48% of the world's top online news sites blocke…
Freedom Factory announced the PQ1, a $179 quantum-resistant hardware wallet for Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains, on July 28, with shipping expected in Q4 2026. The device uses the NIST-recognized SPHINCS+ signature al…
AI detectors are not fully reliable, with a peer-reviewed study rating Originality.ai and Turnitin at 69% and 61% accuracy respectively for identifying AI-generated academic texts, and a Stanford study finding an average…
GamesRadar+ reports that the official music video for Stellar Blade: Blood Rain, created using AI-generated imagery, has drawn criticism from fans who call it 'a slap in the face to your artists.' The video, released by …
The Munich Regional Court ruled that U.S. AI music company Suno committed copyright infringement under German law and, in an unprecedented extraterritorial ruling, determined that Suno's AI training in the United States …
ISBNdb, a book database company, removed its landing page offering printed books for AI training and denied ever purchasing, scanning, or selling books, following 404 Media's reporting. The company stated the page was "a…
A study by researchers from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Foscari University of Venice, the University of Melbourne, and Ben Gurion University of the Negev found that AI chatbots outperformed humans in building trust durin…
Elon Musk's AI company SpaceXAI, formerly xAI, asked a federal judge in San José on Thursday to halt a proposed class action lawsuit accusing it of creating non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes, seeking to transfer…
The Munich Regional Court ruled that Suno, a Massachusetts-based generative music platform, violated German and U.S. copyright law by training its AI on songs from GEMA's repertoire without a license. GEMA, which represe…
A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, with countries also misplaced and misshaped, according to The Guardian. The map, w…