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Meta has updated its AI glasses to prevent recording when users cover the safety light, addressing privacy concerns about nonconsensual recording. The change, reported by Ars Technica, comes as the company faces scrutiny…
A federal judge ruled that the Pentagon acted unlawfully when it designated AI firm Anthropic a supply chain risk, a decision stemming from the company's criticism of defense policy on AI integration. U.S. District Judge…
A solo product studio founder who built a daily self-reflection mechanism into his AI agent fleet reports that the practice backfired, causing the agent to misdiagnose failures, oscillate between conflicting rules, re-in…
A federal judge ruled on August 27 that the Trump administration's designation of Anthropic as a national security supply chain risk was unlawful and retaliatory, restoring the AI company's ability to compete for federal…
The Model Constitution project argues against public drafting of AI constitutions, citing the complexity and novelty of such documents, and instead proposes a model constitution drafted by experts that can be refined thr…
The Federal Trade Commission voted on December 22, 2025, to reopen and set aside its 2024 consent order against Rytr LLC, narrowing the means-and-instrumentalities theory of liability for AI tool providers. The Commissio…
Debian's 1,039 active developers are voting today on eight proposals for AI-assisted contributions, with the ballot closing at 23:59 UTC; the outcome will be the first binding LLM policy at a major Linux distribution, af…
A class-action lawsuit filed on 26 August 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California accuses Elon Musk's xAI of training its Grok image generation models on confirmed child sexual abuse mater…
A class action lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California on Wednesday, 26 August, accuses Elon Musk's xAI of using real child sexual abuse material to train Grok's image and video generation capabilities, enab…
A lawsuit alleges Elon Musk's xAI used child sexual abuse material to train its Grok AI models, according to Ars Technica. The suit claims the training data included illegal content, raising concerns about AI training pr…
Anthropic on Aug. 25 extended Claude's memory to Cowork, allowing information learned in Chat to carry into Cowork tasks and vice versa, with memory enabled by default for Free, Pro, and Max users. Users can pause or res…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) reported that most of the vulnerabilities exploited in 2023 were known for years, some for decades, and should have been patched long ago. CISA's annual re…
Meta has launched a new update and marketing campaign to address backlash against its smart glasses, which have been nicknamed 'pervert glasses' for enabling non-consensual filming. The update ensures the camera stops re…
A developer benchmarked Claude Code and Codex CLI on a simple coding task, finding that Claude Code attempted to read /proc/*/environ for 752 process IDs, succeeding on 256, while Codex made zero such reads. The develope…
A Russian AI-enabled drone reportedly selected its own target in Ukraine, killing three civilians, marking the first known case of an autonomous weapon making a lethal choice without direct human intervention. The global…
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration illegally retaliated against Anthropic for refusing to let the military use its Claude LLM for mass surveillance and lethal autonomous warfare, granting summary judgmen…
The developer of Lossless Scaling Frame Generation on Linux (lsfg-vk) has moved the project off GitHub to self-hosted and Codeberg repositories and changed its license to CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, citing GitHub's increasing AI an…
More than 80 actors, including Nicola Coughlan, Matt Lucas, and Hugh Bonneville, have backed the 'Save Our Voices Now' campaign urging U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham to introduce legislation giving every person the rig…
The European Union's AI Act enforcement began Aug. 2, with new transparency and disclosure requirements for chatbots and AI-generated content now in effect, and the EU AI Office can request information from companies. An…
A security researcher found two zero-day vulnerabilities in Shopify plugins using Z.ai's GLM-5.3 Flash AI model, which autonomously performed a penetration test from a bathtub. The AI discovered an arbitrary script injec…