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A lawsuit filed by supplement company Humann against Ambrosia Brands reveals that Rosabella, a supplement company, used AI-generated influencers and fake doctors to create hundreds of TikTok Shop videos promoting product…
LinkedIn has introduced a button that lets users flag posts as 'seems like AI slop,' 404 Media tests confirmed. The button appears when clicking the three dots on a post, and after reporting, LinkedIn hides the post and …
EssilorLuxottica reported that revenue from its smart glasses nearly doubled in the second quarter compared to the same period last year, despite growing privacy concerns and backlash, particularly against Meta's Ray-Ban…
A test of five AI models — GPT-5.6 Sol, DeepSeek V4 Pro, Claude Fable 5, Grok-4.5, and Gemini 3.1 Pro — found that only two showed clear self-preference bias when scoring their own unlabeled essays alongside peers' work.…
Protopia AI Inc. and Rafay Systems Inc. have partnered to deliver multi-tenancy for shared GPU AI factories, pairing Rafay's Token Factory with Protopia's Stained Glass data-isolation technology to convert idle GPU capac…
The White House accused Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI on July 22 of acquiring Nvidia's export-controlled GB300 chips and using them to train its 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model, the most specific U.S. allegation ye…
A group of researchers led by Masaharu Mizumoto, Mads Udengaard, Rujuta Karekar, Mayank Goel, Daan Henselmans, Nurshafira Noh, Saptadip Saha, and Pranshul Bohra propose building ideally virtuous AI systems (iVAIS) for AI…
Third-party data center facilities now host 46% of enterprise IT workloads, surpassing the 44% in corporate-owned data centers for the first time, according to Uptime Institute's 16th Annual Global Data Center Survey. Th…
The GCC Steering Committee announced July 29 a formal policy rejecting AI-generated code contributions of more than roughly 15 lines to the GNU Compiler Collection, citing GPL copyright integrity concerns. The policy, an…
A developer argues that AI's perceived functional capability is largely a product of marketing rather than genuine technological advancement. The piece critiques how hype and branding shape public understanding of AI sys…
More than 85% of Chinese respondents see AI as more beneficial than harmful, compared to less than 45% in the United States, according to Stanford University's 2024 AI Index Report. A 2023 report by the University of Que…
FOSS Weekly #26.31 reports that Ubuntu 26.04 intentionally stopped notifying users about non-security updates, while security patches continue in the background. Codeberg members voted to ban projects mostly built from A…
Meta's crackdown on users of its AI-powered smart glasses who film harassment has failed, as an Oligarch Watch investigation found hundreds of such videos still on Meta's platforms after the company announced a ban this …
A senior engineer reports that junior developers who rely on AI coding assistants like Claude are losing essential skills such as codebase navigation, debugging, and test judgment, because AI removes the hands-on experie…
A new research article published in Information Technology and Libraries proposes equipping library patrons with strategies to resist data collection by AI, data brokers, and Big Tech, framing refusal as a form of instru…
A new survey finds 55% of business leaders regret layoffs made in favor of artificial intelligence, and a major hiring reversal has begun, according to Inc. The regret stems from AI failing to deliver expected productivi…
Google researchers propose embedding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into AI training pipelines as a forward-alignment technique for agentic AI, testing their Human Rights Taxonomy against 100 simulated failure…
Mark Zuckerberg published a Wall Street Journal op-ed on July 28 arguing that superintelligent AI must reach individuals rather than concentrate among a few institutions, using a thought experiment where a superintellige…
The GCC steering committee has adopted a formal policy banning legally significant contributions — roughly 15 lines of code or text — that include or are derived from LLM-generated content, framing the move as a copyrigh…
Anthropic reasoning in situations without duplicates is equivalent to standard Bayesian updating, according to a new analysis. The author argues that the Self-Indication Assumption (SIA) matches Bayesian updates in basic…