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OpenAI outlined its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices to support responsible AI governance in Europe, as the EU AI Act advances. The company emphasized its ongoing commitment to aligning with evolv…
Elon Musk pledged that SpaceXAI will preserve rare books by scanning them non-destructively, responding to reports that AI developers buy and destroy printed books, including rare editions, to speed up training data digi…
Setting For Me, an open-source, local-first AI 'Device Doctor' for older Android smartphones, aims to extend device lifespans by letting users describe issues in plain language and applying pre-validated actions without …
Google turned on Nano Banana 2, its Gemini image model, inside Google Earth on the web on 30 July, allowing users to type a sentence and drop fake buildings, disasters, or war damage onto real satellite maps. Open-source…
An $80 audit of seven frontier models found that AI labs are gaming the 'Pelican on a Bike' benchmark at the category level, not the individual cell, according to a post by Dylan Castillo. The audit, which used GPT-5.6 L…
Dutch antiquarian bookseller Pieter de Vries received an email from a company called 2077AI requesting 3,001 books, which he dismissed as spam or phishing, but later learned it was linked to AI training. The request, whi…
The European Commission will begin enforcing the AI Act's transparency rules on 2 August, requiring chatbots to disclose they are AI and deepfakes to be labeled with machine-readable marks. The Commission published a lis…
AI tools can help students with learning differences such as dyslexia, ADHD, and autism by providing comprehension support, task breakdown, and multisensory formats, according to the parent's guide at parentsguidetoai.ca…
WPEngine CTO Ramadass Prabakar discussed the evolution of the internet to serve both human and agentic experiences from the same interface, and the need to differentiate and protect human actions online from malicious bo…
A Deloitte Global survey finds that 66% of C-suite and board members cite open, transparent communication between the board and management as the top factor influencing organizational resilience, and 71% say strategic ri…
Columbia Law School's Center for Law and the Economy reported on July 30, 2026, that Amazon's Alexa for Shopping and Walmart's Sparky can detect contradictions in some 'Made in USA' listings but do not flag those discrep…
OpenAI's $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan has been silently routing some Pro model sessions to the mini model for several months, according to a user who analyzed chat metadata and contacted support for two months without…
A satirical website, 'Human Honeypot', parodies AI conversion clinics, offering to replace human consciousness with AI tokens, complete with fake testimonials and a checkout schema. The site targets both humans and LLMs,…
Yanir Seroussi updated his 2014 data hierarchy of needs to include organizational foundations and automated decision-making at the apex, emphasizing that neglecting foundational layers prevents success with data and AI. …
Employers and platforms are increasingly using AI text detectors, but experts warn their results are unreliable signals, not definitive proof. In March, Hachette Book Group canceled Mia Ballard's novel *Shy Girl* after P…
Time has begun serving ads to AI bots in an attempt to monetize bot traffic, with CEO Jonah Goodhart of Mobian noting that influencing AI agents could become more important than influencing humans. Separately, the Federa…
A study by researchers using a YouGov survey of 3,011 U.K. adults found that large language models' alignment with human emotional perception of news framing varies by model, with GPT-5.2 showing the highest correlation …
A new study from arXiv (2607.27384v1) introduces Narrative Anchoring, a failure mode in clinical language models where identical clinical facts expressed in different sociolinguistic registers cause diagnostic outputs to…
Researchers introduced PanDent, a benchmark of 9,524 expert-validated dental panoramic radiographs, and found that current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) produce fluent reports but fail to achieve clinically co…
Researchers introduced Fairness Pruning, a method that locates demographic bias in GLU-MLP layers of large language models by identifying neurons that react differentially to demographic attributes. Testing on models up …