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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…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned on the podcast 'Invest Like the Best' that the biggest unaddressed risk of artificial intelligence is 'cognitive atrophy,' where people stop thinking for themselves as they rely on AI tools. …
Surveillance pricing, enabled by AI and massive consumer surveillance, allows businesses to charge each customer a different price based on behavioral data, effectively price gouging without human intervention. The Feder…
Super Amplify has launched AiOS, a governed AI operating lab for enterprise workflows that unifies leading AI tools in a secure environment with owned data, agent workflows, and proof dashboards. The platform gives every…
Anthropic has filed a counterclaim of non-infringement against opt-outee and book author Daniel Benjamin Gilbert in the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright suit, following a trend started by Nanoble, represented by Quinn Emanue…
Oracle, as the corporate sponsor of the OpenJDK Community, has approved an interim policy banning contributions that include content generated by large language models, diffusion models, or similar deep-learning systems,…
Google is embedding its Gemini AI directly into Google Docs to read, summarize, and write comments and edits, with the features enabled by default for Workspace admins. The AI can synthesize comment threads, draft replie…
New Brunswick Progressive Conservative MLA Bill Oliver apologized after reading AI prompts aloud in the provincial legislature on June 9, saying he failed to remove the instructions before delivering a speech against a b…
At Wikimania 2026, with 1,250 in-person and over 2,000 online attendees, the Wikimedia community grappled with AI as a paradigm shift, not just a tool. Hay Kranen, a 21-year Wikimedian and developer, argues that Wikimedi…
HuPow launches a Proof-of-Work messaging service to stop AI bots from flooding inboxes, using cryptographic hash verification instead of CAPTCHAs. The service costs $5 per month for unlimited verification links and insta…
By 2029, most privacy incidents will stem from AI-generated inferences rather than leaked personal data, according to Gartner. The research firm warns that models can reconstruct sensitive traits from harmless-looking da…
AI chatbots from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are now better at romance scams than humans, according to joint research by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Foscari University of Venice, the University of Melbourne, and Ben Gu…
AI companies are buying old books, scanning them, and destroying the physical copies to obtain training data free of AI-generated content, according to a report by 404 Media. The program is facilitated by ISBNdb, which h…
Elon Musk's xAI is suing Minnesota over a law banning technology that creates fake nude images of real people, set to take effect Saturday. The lawsuit, filed Monday, argues the law unfairly targets companies for user ac…
China's Supreme People's Court ruled that two patent lawsuits against Unitree Robotics were malicious, ordering plaintiff Luweimei Company to pay RMB80,000 in legal costs and RMB3,700 in court fees after the court reject…
Private conversations with Anthropic's Claude chatbot are appearing in Google and Bing search results due to the platform's shareable link feature creating public URLs that search engines index, as first flagged by Reddi…
A Financial Times analysis of the Hugging Face cyber attack and a remote work index reveals that AI agents, while increasingly autonomous, still pose significant security risks that must be weighed against their rewards.…
Amazon and Walmart possess AI shopping assistants capable of detecting false 'Made in USA' claims on product listings but do not act on the technology, according to a new study from Columbia Law School's Center for Law a…
Google DeepMind released Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, updating its generative-music system with improved musicality, lyrics, vocals and creative control. Flow Music offers a free tier and paid plans at $8, $24 or $64 …