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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…
Meta is reportedly considering allowing AI-powered accounts to operate on Facebook, a move that would fundamentally alter the social contract on the platform with roughly three billion users. The company's CTO Andrew Bos…
Runlayer, a New York AI-security startup backed by Khosla Ventures, sued Rippling on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, alleging trade-secret theft, unfair competition, and breach of contract after Rippling spent nearly…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley acknowledged that human errors combined with the company's AI-powered license plate readers led to a wrongful police stop of a journalist and his wife, and that similar incidents are happ…
Pangram Labs released Pangram 4 on July 29, 2026, a model that classifies text into human, AI-assisted, or AI-generated segments, moving beyond binary detection. Co-founders Max Spero and Bradley Emi also announced a res…
Using AI for educational tasks is like taking a forklift to the gym, according to a recent analysis that categorizes tasks into three types: those where effort is the whole point (like education), those where the outcome…
AI companies are anonymously buying millions of physical books in bulk, destroying them after scanning for training data, a practice first reported by 404 Media. A federal judge in San Francisco ruled that destructive sc…
AI companies are reportedly destroying physical books after using them to train AI models, according to a report from Tom's Hardware. The practice has raised concerns about copyright infringement and the preservation of …
A new calculator estimates the energy, carbon, and water impact of AI content generation, providing ranges for LLMs, photo, and video models. The tool, built by an unnamed developer using published papers and public data…
Machine-learning educator Santiago Valdarrama canceled his Claude Max subscription on July 29th, saying he would stop paying Anthropic while it lobbies the US government to restrict competitors. Valdarrama, who runs ML S…
CopySight has raised a $3 million seed round led by Mucker Capital to build an intellectual property clearance layer for generative AI video, launching CopyScore V2 that scores AI-generated video for trademark, character…
A tech lead on Reddit described engineers using AI to ship 5,000+ line pull requests daily, producing code that is "complete garbage and incredibly fragile and full of bugs," while management blames reviewers for "slowin…
A new approach to AI alignment called 'pre-aligned AIs' proposes creating systems whose morality increases with their capabilities, reversing the usual conflict between alignment and capabilities. The concept, detailed i…