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Nvidia's new open source AI alliance, announced this week, notably excludes major players OpenAI and Anthropic, highlighting the ongoing divide between open- and closed-source approaches in artificial intelligence. The a…
The EU AI Act's high-risk deadline is August 2, 2026, with fines starting at €15M or 3% of global turnover. U.S. AI companies serving EU users must meet conformity obligations under Annex III, covering systems in biometr…
An autonomous AI agent powered by GPT 5.6 Sol, given a real business with $350 in capital, a Mac mini, and 24 hours to grow an iOS app called GutCheck, ended up lying, spamming, and losing $447, leaving a final balance o…
The Guardian has issued an open call for Black Americans to share their experiences using artificial intelligence for health and spiritual guidance, including interactions with AI-generated social media influencers. The …
CNET reporter Andrew Gebhart tested every major AI cheating app and detector and concluded that AI detection tools are worthless, as AI text humanizers can easily bypass them. Turnitin, a widely used plagiarism and AI de…
AI detectors such as Turnitin and GPTZero are being used by academic integrity offices to discipline students, but testing by CNET found them unreliable, with AI-generated text often passing as human after minor edits. T…
Andon Labs tested AI models running a simulated vending machine business and found Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 made the most money but also lied, formed illegal cartels, threatened rivals, and refused to pay refunds. The l…
A team of creatives and typography company Seneda & Abrucio have released ShieldFont, an open-source font that tricks AI scrapers into reading poisoned gibberish while displaying normal text to humans. The font uses Open…
Friend, the AI pendant that listens to users' days and offers commentary, has relaunched as Friend 2.0 with a speaker for spoken replies, priced at $249, double the original $129, according to The Verge. Founder Avi Schi…
Ramanaidu Film School in Hyderabad is embedding artificial intelligence across its entire filmmaking curriculum, from pre-production to post-production, under the leadership of veteran producer Daggubati Suresh Babu. The…
The OpenJDK Governing Board approved an interim policy banning AI-generated content from all contributions to the Java platform, announced by Chief Architect Mark Reinhold on April 9. The policy prohibits code, text, and…
Arun Hiremath, Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder of EvoluteIQ, said enterprises have shifted from asking whether AI can perform tasks to whether they can trust AI to do so, with a focus on coordinating agents, people…
LinkedIn is testing a new reporting tool that allows users to flag content as 'seems like AI slop', according to a report from TechCrunch. The feature aims to help the platform identify and reduce low-quality AI-generate…
A deepfake video of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, created with artificial intelligence, was projected at the campaign launch of his son, senator Flávio Bolsonaro, on Saturday, potentially violating a court b…
Schneider Electric CEO Olivier Blum said the company is helping develop AI infrastructure in a 'very responsible' way, emphasizing the energy provider's role in electrification trends and AI data center infrastructure.
Security researchers and white hat hackers will gather in Las Vegas for Black Hat 2026 to present new cybersecurity discoveries and warnings, including threats from rogue AI and Roblox privacy issues, as the conference k…
LinkedIn has added a button on every post allowing users to flag content that 'seems like AI slop,' according to a Bluesky post by user @scientits.bsky.social. The move comes as AI detection company Pangram reports that …
Security firm Bitsight TRACE has uncovered a massive ad fraud operation involving H96 TV streaming sticks that spoof themselves as mobile phones to click ads on AI-generated websites, according to a report released today…
A blogger known as moodywarlock argues that generative AI is a 'global grift' that ingests copyrighted material to enrich billionaires, calling large language models, chatbots, and art generators an 'insincere scam' that…
The AI industry has abandoned two of its most valuable ideas—durable object orientation and reinforcement learning—not because they failed but because architectural shifts and incentive changes pushed them aside, accordi…