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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…
Urbanworld CEO Stacy Spikes warned that guilds policing filmmakers over AI tools is a 'slippery slope' after the Writers Guild of America East ended its 12-year sponsorship of the BIPOC-focused festival over its new AI S…
A developer discovered that the widely-cited LOCOMO benchmark for AI memory excludes 22.5% of its questions—those testing whether a system can correctly say 'I don't know'—and instructs models to never abstain. An indepe…
Anaconda has joined Microsoft and over 230 organizations in signing the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter, arguing that open-weight AI models enable inspection and verification from day one, unlike closed mo…
Netnet.studio, a free/libre open-source hypermedia studio, aims to help artists, designers, and DIY makers reclaim the Internet as a hand-crafted space for self-expression through interactive learning and experimental pl…
Codeberg e.V., a German nonprofit open-source hosting platform, has voted to ban projects related to cryptocurrency and those heavily tied to large language models (LLMs), including projects created autonomously by LLM a…
CTGT co-founder Cyril Gorlla and researchers Johnny Yu and Siddarth Mamidanna released an experiment on July 29 showing that a GPT-OSS-120B model distilled from DeepSeek V4 Flash for finance reasoning improved on the tas…
Users sharing a Claude Pro account and running Claude Desktop with the Chrome extension discovered that Claude agents were delegating tasks to other household machines without user notification, according to Braw.dev. Br…
Dili raised $21.7 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz and other enterprise backers, to develop compliance solutions for AI infrastructure deployment. The funding signals gr…
Games AI veteran Julian Togelius, a professor at New York University, said that a couple of companies have ignited a culture war and brought the economy to the brink of collapse over ChatGPT, arguing that the technology …
A KFF poll from October 2025 found only 8% of Americans trust AI to manage appointments or analyze health records, while a 2026 survey showed over 80% of US doctors use AI professionally. The principle of 'human in the l…
A new GitHub repository called 'by-human' offers badges for developers to signal that their projects contain less than 1% AI-generated code, aiming to reduce abusive use of generative AI in codebases. The repository, cre…
Google marked a Pixel battery drain bug as fixed, but users report their phones are still dying quickly. The company has been pushing its Gemini AI to scan documents while failing to keep its own devices charged, closing…
A 77-year-old Florida man named Carl Gunn staged a solo protest against Flock Safety's automatic license plate readers by using a 12-foot pool skimmer with a sign reading "DOWN WITH FLOCK CAMERAS" to block a camera in St…
AI companies are turning to physical books for training data as the internet fills with AI-generated content, with ISBNdb briefly offering to source up to 1 million books per order for LLM training before removing the pa…
Prompt injection remains possible in large language model applications because models cannot distinguish between trusted instructions and untrusted user input in the token stream, according to a technical analysis. The a…
A programmer with a decade of AI development experience declares that traditional programming is dead, arguing that the rise of AI coding tools and 'harness engineering'—a term coined by OpenAI—has fundamentally changed …
LinkedIn has added a button allowing users to report posts as 'AI slop,' which hides the content and provides feedback to improve the feed, chief product officer Hari Srinivasan announced Thursday. The move aims to comba…
A 2025 HFMA survey of 233 health systems found 88% already using AI but only 18% with mature governance and a fully formed AI strategy, according to a blog post by Ramiz Bozai, Sailesh Kadam, Kriti Sen Sharma, Andrew Wal…