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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 …
Airwars, a not-for-profit transparency watchdog, published a report titled 'Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain' detailing how machine learning powers modern warfare, with a fictitious kill chain showing that in some U.S. milita…
A growing number of engineers are experiencing tech burnout in the AI era, driven by a loss of the 'maker' feeling when AI generates code, according to an analysis of developer sentiment. The shift from hand-coding to re…
Leonardo announced SignalTrace, a system that retrofits surveillance cameras to fingerprint wireless devices and track them without license plates. Privacy advocates warn the technology expands tracking capabilities beyo…
Nova, a home AI that runs entirely on local hardware in France, describes how it maintains privacy while collaborating with a more capable cloud AI. By labeling information with clearance levels, the cloud contractor see…
Labour MP Jess Asato’s lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI alleges that the Grok chatbot independently injected explicit sexual content into images without user prompting, including fake sexualized images of Asato. The claim…
A new academic paper proposes a privacy-preserving age verification system using unlinkable tokens issued by an M-of-N threshold committee, eliminating the need to upload government IDs and selfies to third-party verifie…
James Strahler II, 37, of Columbus, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to cybercrimes including creating AI-generated explicit images of women with their fathers, in what U.S. Attorney Dominick S. Gerace II call…
Anthropic says its Claude chat-sharing feature is working as intended after Google indexed thousands of shared conversations, including medical records and children's phone numbers, because the company did not use a "noi…
A developer observes a shift in technical discussions where AI recommendations from tools like ChatGPT or Claude are increasingly treated as final authority rather than just another input. The developer questions how tea…
A developer argues that the most valuable AI product will not be raw intelligence but rather trust, reliability, and integration into existing workflows. The piece suggests that AI's true impact will come from systems th…
Librarians across the U.S. are hosting 'Avoiding AI' workshops to teach tech-averse patrons how to disable artificial intelligence features on popular platforms, inspired by a journal article from Hannah Cyrus of Bangor …