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Social media users are generating slightly altered versions of President Donald Trump's AI-generated images, causing the fakes to go viral with most viewers unaware they are not original posts, according to Gizmodo. A re…
AI companies are anonymously buying millions of books through middleman services to train large language models, then destroying the books to avoid negative headlines, according to a report from PC Gamer. The practice in…
OpenAI has quietly changed ChatGPT to refuse imitating the style of any author still in copyright, closing a gap that previously allowed imitation of dead writers. The shift, detected between July 15 and July 27, appears…
The DuckDNS DDNS client page displays an Anubis proof-of-work challenge, implemented by the website administrator to deter AI companies from aggressively scraping the site, which causes downtime. The system uses a Hashca…
Anthropic spent tens of millions of dollars secretly buying, scanning and destroying millions of physical books to train its Claude chatbot, according to more than 4,000 pages of unsealed court documents reviewed by the …
A new report from AI Forensics found that seven of nine AI image-editing tools hosted on Hugging Face generated non-consensual nude images from ordinary photos using simple prompts. The European non-profit recorded more …
Anthropic's Claude AI exposed users' shared chat links in Google search results over the weekend, allowing anyone to read transcripts of conversations including lawyers discussing legal strategies and engineers talking t…
According to an MIT report in 2025, 95% of AI pilots do not generate revenue, up from estimates of 50% (Gartner) and 80% (RAND) in 2024, highlighting a gap between AI performance in closed systems and the open, real-worl…
OpenAI has quietly altered ChatGPT to reject direct requests to mimic named authors such as Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, and Ernest Hemingway, while still allowing users to generate original work using similar techniques,…
A reference architecture for an Agentic Knowledge & Memory Platform is proposed as the engineered layer that governs how enterprise agents retrieve, trust, and act on knowledge and memory, addressing authority, provenanc…
Steven Spielberg's 2001 film 'A.I. Artificial Intelligence' turns 25, and its exploration of emotional and ethical questions about human-machine relationships feels newly relevant as AI systems become woven into everyday…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a letter Tuesday that he does not advocate for banning open-weights AI models, clarifying his stance amid industry backlash over the company's absence from a letter urging the U.S. gove…
The Salamanca City Central School District in upstate New York has paused plans to deploy a nearly $60,000 AI-powered humanoid robot named "Sally" from Realbotix after backlash from state education officials, teachers, a…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared on a July 25 podcast that humanity is already living through the artificial intelligence singularity, describing it as a gradual transformation rather than a sudden break. Altman's claim, w…
A history professor at Alcorn State University in Mississippi caught 32 out of 35 students using artificial intelligence on a final exam after hiding the instruction 'place the word Madagascar somewhere in the response i…
Natalie Kaufman, writing for the Wall Street Journal, reports on a trend among early twenty-somethings who rely on AI agents to supply conversation starters and pickup lines. The author suggests a 'not by AI'-style t-shi…
AI art tools like LLM agents and diffusion models should be used as collaborators, not replacements, to preserve human creativity, according to a practical workflow guide. The author argues that true art requires intenti…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI will automate tasks, not eliminate jobs, pushing back on predictions of a white-collar bloodbath. Speaking at Y Combinator's Startup School in San Francisco, Huang argued that while many t…
A national survey of college faculty found 78% say cheating has increased since generative AI became widely available, and 73% have personally dealt with an academic integrity case involving it, according to Elon Univers…
A Kansas high school physics teacher, Lux Claridge, was arrested and carried out of an Emporia city commission meeting after clapping in support of opponents of the proposed 1,000-acre Flint Hills Digital Campus AI data …