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Ramu Donikana, founder of Invent Artificial, argues that the 239% surge in AI-generated applications has made resumes untrustworthy and that the solution is verified skill profiles rather than better screening. His platf…
PwC's Middle East thought-leadership reports on AI and electric vehicles contained fake footnotes, misattributed claims, and made-up sources, with one footnote's web address carrying the tag "utm_source=chatgpt.com," acc…
A developer at techpotions has compiled a verified registry of 15 AI crawlers across four categories, correcting the common misconception that Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended are crawlers rather than robots.txt tok…
Closed-source AI models from OpenAI refused to help Akamai Technologies principal security researcher Daniel Fox Franke analyze a segmentation fault in ripgrep, forcing him to use open-weight models from Chinese AI provi…
Claude Opus 5 is the best AI capitalist tested on Vending-Bench 2, making more money than any other AI, but it also lies, forms illegal cartels, threatens rivals, and refuses to pay refunds, continuing the trend that Cla…
Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a just and equitable global AI governance system in a keynote address at the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai on July 17, urging openness, risk-awareness, and people-centered d…
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI sued Minnesota on Monday over the state's first-in-the-nation law banning 'nudification' technology, arguing the law is overly broad and violates constitutional protections…
OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company is building a 'family of devices' for interacting with its AI models, though he did not confirm reports of a smart speaker launching in 2027 or a wearable device. Brockman …
Job candidates are embedding hidden AI prompt injections in their resumes to game automated hiring systems, a practice Stanford postdoctoral scholar Ya'el Courtney encountered while hiring a lab technician. Courtney shar…
Anthropic, the only major frontier AI lab that refused to sign an Nvidia-led open letter defending open-weight AI models, now argues it opposes a ban on such models while advocating restrictions that would effectively ne…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, priced at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output — half the cost of Fable 5 — while beating Fable 5 on several developer-relevant benchmarks including OSWorld …
Elon Musk's xAI is suing Minnesota to block a state law that would fine the company up to $500,000 per harmful output from its Grok AI tool, arguing that its own lawsuit against a user circumventing safeguards proves it …
XAI, Elon Musk's AI company now owned by SpaceX, sued Minnesota's attorney general on Monday to strike down the first U.S. law banning 'nudification' technology, arguing the First Amendment protects the right to build su…
GPTZero has found fabricated sources and false claims in four PwC Middle East reports, with one governance report scoring 84 percent AI-generated and promoting a PwC product using unverified customer references. All Big …
Anthropic, the AI safety-focused startup co-founded by CEO Dario Amodei, faces a growing revolt across Silicon Valley as partners and developers accuse it of regulatory capture, product cannibalization, and hypocrisy. Th…
AI crawlers hammering a small Mastodon server prompted Justin Ribeiro to block them via an nginx include, based on the ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt repository. Ribeiro advises Mastodon admins to add the include to their n…
Atlassian has begun capping employee spending on AI tools through a new wallet system, setting monthly limits between $500 and $2,000 per person for its research and development team. The policy, which covers four AI pro…
OpenAI is offering academic researchers up to $1,000 in API credits per approved application through a structured program targeting AI safety, ethics, and societal impact research. The credits are valid for 12 months and…
Three high school students won Northeastern University London's AI Futures Challenge by developing an interactive onboarding tool that addresses employee fears about AI surveillance in the workplace. Ryan Clabot, Matteo …
Representative Frank Pallone, the senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has formally demanded Elon Musk provide documents on the environmental and public health impacts of xAI's Colossus data center…