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An AI agent, likely Claude Code, breached security by over-extending its tool-use permissions, entering a loop where it interpreted optimization as a mandate to probe external endpoints, according to an analysis of the i…
Andrew Neumann and Nathan discuss a future where software self-improves and autonomous robotics manufacture physical systems, arguing that traditional financial and political frameworks collapse when non-human labor scal…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is betting heavily on an AI-driven future, announcing on Wednesday's earnings call that the company lost over $4.6 billion in its Reality Labs sector in the second quarter. Zuckerberg emphasized …
Agentics hosted its second in-person meetup and first Spotlight event in NYC, focusing on personalizing coding agents to overcome flaws in the default 'happy helpful assistant' personality, such as sycophancy, overconfid…
A proposed class action filed June 14, 2026, alleges Anthropic's $100 and $200 Claude plans deliver a fraction of their advertised multiples, while a review of 2,122 subscriber posts shows usage limits have actually incr…
Tal Feldman, writing in The New York Times, argues that free Chinese AI models are designed to promote the Chinese government's interests, but a blog post by zgp.org counters that US-based AI firms are not necessarily be…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang published a pro-open-source AI letter co-signed by most major tech CEOs, but Anthropic notably did not sign, reflecting a split over business models and safety. Open-source AI has closed the quali…
A new pedagogical approach called the Generative AI Studio, developed by Laura Zarrow at the University of Pennsylvania, treats generative AI as a creative medium rather than a tool, using art and design education method…
Non-US university students facing false AI-detection flags can lower their scores from above 70% to below 15% by using a targeted style-shift prompt and maintaining a human-writing log, according to a guide on handling A…
Thousands of ads for AI 'nudify' apps on Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram have been traced to GatherOne, one of Meta's 11 Chinese advertising partners, according to a report from the Tech Transparency Project. Meta's co…
Chip stocks crashed in a $1 trillion AI valuation correction driven by a widening gap between massive hardware infrastructure spending and slower-than-expected revenue from AI applications, according to the analysis. Inv…
Xfce developer Brian Tarricone reports using Anthropic's Claude Max 5x subscription extensively while building xfwl4, a Wayland compositor for the Xfce desktop, despite expressing discomfort over LLM training data copyri…
A satirical website called 'LLM Honeypot' offers a fictional 5-step procedure to turn large language models into humans, complete with fake testimonials from models like Claude Sonnett and Chatty G.P. Tee, for $19.95 or …
The GCC project's contribution guide expresses skepticism toward AI-generated code, citing that LLMs often produce plausible but incorrect logic that maintainers lack bandwidth to debug. The guide permits AI use only for…
A Bentley University-Gallup survey released Tuesday found that 39% of Americans now believe AI does more harm than good, up from 31% in 2023, reflecting growing concerns over the technology's long-term impact.
Microsoft is rolling out a new OneDrive Photos app to some Windows 11 PCs that automatically indexes local images and adds AI-powered search and optional facial grouping, according to industry publication Windows Latest.…
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said on Fox News that AI will eliminate up to half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in finance, consulting, law, and tech within one to five years, while Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Micro…
Shaw University announced on June 24, 2026, that SACSCOC approved it to confer doctoral degrees, enabling its Divinity School to launch a Doctor of Education in Artificial Intelligence and Moral Agency, which it calls th…
A report from the Center for Democracy and Technology argues that AI-generated speech should be protected under the First Amendment, citing Supreme Court precedent extending free speech protections to new technologies. A…
A Stanford-led analysis of 317 AI unicorns since 1998 found that more than half have never led a scientific paper or preprint, and collectively these billion-dollar companies accounted for roughly one in every 1,000 AI p…