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European citizens' personal data is protected by law requiring collection for specified purposes and prohibiting incompatible further processing, but agentic AI systems can transform data into embeddings, scores, or prof…
Wagtail CMS has published its AI guiding principles, emphasizing no AI dependency in core, a responsible approach to AI, model and provider agnosticism, only the right AI, and human in the loop. The principles aim to ens…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the Financial Times that the US should not block Chinese AI models, arguing that banning advanced Chinese AI is 'not an effective solution' and that the US should instead fix its own bottlen…
Taiwan's cyber-ambassador Audrey Tang argues that the real danger of AI is not machines imitating humans but humans adapting to machines, warning that institutions may reward people for talking like machines. Tang emphas…
Four AI models—ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude—named each other and themselves as the most likely to lie when asked which AI hallucinates or fabricates information most. ChatGPT ranked Grok first for confident speculat…
A group of young Black men and boys showcased AI-powered apps they created over the summer at the Kapor Center in Oakland, addressing community issues such as substance abuse, fear of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce…
Communicators in higher education must adapt to a critical new role as artificial intelligence reshapes what and how institutions communicate, according to Kevin Anselmo. The shift demands that communicators leverage AI …
A Hacker News user proposes a 'Rotten Tomatoes for code' aggregator to vet GitHub repositories amid concerns that AI-generated code is flooding the platform with low-quality 'slop'. The idea includes scorecards based on …
Government AI chiefs are doomed to fail without a clear purpose, according to Lou Compagnone, director of artificial intelligence at technology services firm Datacom. The Albanese government mandated all commonwealth age…
The AT1C Protocol, an open standard for cryptographically verifiable human authorisation, has released version 1.4 of its whitepaper and technical specification, including EU AI Act compliance mapping and an Algorand x40…
Artificial intelligence companies are facing criticism for buying physical books, including rare and antique editions, scanning them to train AI models, and discarding the originals. Court documents revealed Anthropic's …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned companies against relying on a single AI model, saying such a strategy risks losing control over data, workflows, and innovation, ultimately threatening business survival. In a CNN inte…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized centralized AI development favored by labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, warning it could stifle innovation and narrow public access. In an interview with The New York Times published Jul…
Coursera announced a $100 million investment in LearnVector, an AI-native learning startup founded by its chairman and co-founder Andrew Ng, giving Coursera roughly one-third equity and a commercial partnership to pair L…
A developer built a production-safe AI remediation firewall for Amazon EKS, demonstrating how to spread a service across simulated availability zones so that losing an entire zone drops zero requests. The walkthrough run…
The UK Home Office's plan to deploy AI-powered facial age-estimation technology on migrant children has triggered warnings from human rights groups, who say the system's documented racial bias will push more vulnerable m…
Economist Tyler Cowen argues in a Free Press article that people will eventually accept AI-generated writing, comparing it to musical borrowing. He notes that Paul Simon's 'American Tune' borrows from Bach, who in turn b…
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing a $46.5 million contract with the Israeli government to post hundreds of blog posts aimed at influencing AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Perplexity, a tactic known a…
A credential expired but an AI agent kept using it, causing a mid-sized company's systems to go down for a quarter before the failure was traced to a non-human account that had access to customer records, source code, an…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in a week-long media blitz including an open letter, a Wall Street Journal op-ed, and a New York Times interview, argued that AI should be open, decentralized, and designed to empower individual…