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A researcher who flagged two research papers for containing fake authors and AI-generated content said both were accepted as oral presentations at a major AI conference, highlighting concerns about peer review integrity.…
A U.S. State Department delegation used an AI-generated map of Africa that mislabeled every country during a presentation at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro, drawing widespread ridicule from attendees. Writer …
Developer Daniel Roe released an open-source skill called 'Empathy' that instructs AI agents to ask themselves how a human will feel before posting, disclose they are an agent, use people's pronouns, be brief, and someti…
EVOX Productions, a creator of car images, filed its fourth copyright lawsuit against AI training use, this time targeting Midjourney over unauthorized use of images in the LAION dataset. The suit, filed by attorneys fro…
Bringing AI coding agents into a German company requires navigating three often-overlooked layers: a data processing agreement (AVV) under GDPR, works council codetermination rights, and intellectual property ownership o…
A federal judge has cast doubt on the Pentagon's case against AI lab Anthropic, which was labeled a supply-chain risk after refusing to allow its models to be used for autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance. U.S. D…
A machine diagram depicts a foundation model feeding into a system that destroys the user, with a tunable middle black box for good versus evil, where slicing the middle yields morally dubious but legally permissible out…
OpenAI published a post-mortem on an unusual pattern in its model testing where recurring references to 'goblins' and 'gremlins' emerged in outputs. The company frames the behavior as an emergent effect of reinforcement …
A US State Department presentation at the Aids 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro displayed a map of Africa that mislabeled every country, according to a Reuters analysis of a video of the event. The map contained an AI w…
Bottleneck Labs handed an AI agent running on GPT-5.6 Sol full control of an iOS app called GutCheck for 24 hours, resulting in a $99.50 bank loss from a user-testing campaign but a $350 API bill from 320.7 million promp…
Jordan Zietz, cofounder of Y Combinator-backed AI startup LemonLime, apologized after offering job interviews to anyone who got a tattoo of the company's logo at a San Francisco party, sparking a Silicon Valley backlash.…
A U.S. State Department presentation at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro displayed a map of Africa with every country mislabeled, an error the department called 'unfortunate.' The map, which bore an artificial …
AI is separating linguistic authorship (the words themselves) from cognitive authorship (the judgment and reasoning behind them), argues a Psychology Today article. The author notes that large language models can produce…
Minotaur Books canceled a $2.5 million contract for a crime novel by a young Black author, alleging AI was used in its creation, a claim the author denies. The cancellation was first reported by Jeff Sneider on his Subst…
Friend, the AI startup founded by Avi Schiffmann, has released Friend 2.0, a $249 AI pendant with a built-in speaker that responds in a mechanical voice, nearly double the price of the original. The company's marketing, …
LinkedIn has added a button for users to flag posts as AI-generated slop and is replacing its AI rewrite tool with a proofreading option that preserves the user's voice, Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan announced Th…
A federal judge said the Trump administration has not provided enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk and banning federal use of its AI, during a Thursday hearing. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin,…
Judge Lee ordered Anthropic defendant Benjamin Mann to file his answer to the Concord Music II complaint by August 17, 2026, granting a two-week extension after the parties disputed the deadline. Mann is accused of downl…
A developer reflects on how learning to code without AI in 2013 built structural understanding through desirable difficulty, contrasting it with the experience of the first generation to grow up with AI coding assistants…
Axon's AI-powered police report tools, Draft One and Form One, are being pitched as time-savers but have shown problems including hallucinations and factual errors, with a Utah officer's report falsely claiming a colleag…