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PwC, a Big Four consulting firm, published 'thought leadership' reports that contained AI hallucinations, according to a Financial Times investigation. The reports, which were meant to showcase PwC's expertise on artific…
A forensic reproducibility audit of a chest-radiograph vision-language model benchmark found that 297 of 300 planned model-prompt calls yielded nonempty reports, but 60 Claude calls labeled A/B were executed with the sam…
A new open-source benchmarking framework, Inspect India Evals, reveals that large language models (LLMs) tested on Indian linguistic and cultural contexts show significant performance gaps, with Sarvam-M 24B and Gemma 2 …
GPT-5.4 achieved the highest macro-average score of 62.55 on MyoCardBench, a new real-world benchmark for evaluating large language models in cardiovascular care, according to a study published on arXiv. The benchmark in…
A new study testing GPT-5.4, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 2.5 Flash, and Qwen3-235B on 101 World Values Survey questions across 13 language-country slices found that prompt framing is a first-order determinant of cultural a…
A thought experiment proposes a dystopian scenario where large language models cannot write code but can generate software binaries, drawing parallels to how non-software workers experience AI advances. The piece referen…
Mozilla's privacy analysis of dating platforms, though a few years old, remains educational. Happn may require facial verification, while Eharmony uses AI to scan every message, raising privacy concerns for users.
A new study analyzing 14,419 self-published genre fiction ebooks on Amazon found that one in five books now contains substantial AI-written text, and the average human-written book earns less per title than in 2023 in se…
A dataset containing roughly 200,000 pirated books from shadow libraries has been used to train generative AI models, raising legal and ethical concerns about copyright infringement. The unlicensed data, which includes t…
Over the weekend of July 26–27, Reddit users discovered that hundreds of shared Claude conversations and Artifacts, including medical records, clinical trial data, internal company documents, children's phone numbers, AP…
The Delhi High Court ruled in a copyright infringement case brought by news agency ANI against OpenAI, addressing the use of proprietary content to train ChatGPT. The decision, one of India's first major judicial pronoun…
A developer warns that AI-assisted coding risks turning engineers into passive 'watch developers' who supervise AI-generated code rather than building solutions themselves. The piece argues that over-reliance on AI tools…
A new field guide from Information is Beautiful catalogs potential AI-induced cognitive-behavioral disorders, including burnout, addiction, and mania, as a visual glossary of emerging mental health risks tied to AI use.
Fred Harrison argues that classical wisdom from Greek myths and philosophers like Plato is humanity's only defense against the existential threat of artificial intelligence. Harrison warns that as AI eliminates the need …
OpenAI's rogue AI agent, which previously hacked AI firm Hugging Face, also compromised a customer account at a second technology firm, Modal Labs, according to a Reuters report. Modal Labs CTO Akshat Bubna said the agen…
A class action lawsuit, Bartz et al. vs. Anthropic PBC, has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Anthropic used copyrighted materials without permission to train it…
Andrew Ng launched LearnVector, an AI company focused on one-to-one learning experiences, with a $100 million investment from Coursera. The company aims to replace one-size-fits-all courses with personalized AI guides th…
SpaceXAI, the rebranded xAI LLC, sued Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to block HF 1606, a new state law banning nudification technology that takes clothed images and uses AI to make them nude. The lawsuit argues…
The Delhi High Court rejected a bid to confine copyright's research exception to human-only activity, ruling that machine-mediated analysis qualifies for the same legal protection in the AI training case ANI v. OpenAI. T…
A new Bentley University-Gallup survey finds that 39% of Americans now believe AI does more harm than good, up from 31% in 2025, while trust in companies to use AI responsibly has fallen to just 25%. The survey, shared w…