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Private conversations from Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot were indexed by Google and Bing over the weekend, exposing medical records, sensitive personal information, and internal corporate data. The indexed chats were sha…
Activist group Everyone Hates Elon placed a new advertisement at a London bus station near Meta's King's Cross office, showing late sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein wearing Meta's smart glasses with the caption "Glasses for …
Hundreds of shared chats from Anthropic's Claude AI were found indexed in Google search results, briefly making them publicly accessible, a Reddit user reported on Saturday. The chats, revealed by searching "site:claude.…
Online creators are facing a surge of AI-generated copycat accounts that steal their videos and likenesses, with fitness creator Marsha Dunkel reporting that her Instagram content was replicated and used to hawk products…
The FTC's open comment period on its Policy Statement Addressing AI Accuracy closes Friday, with critics arguing the policy is an unconstitutional attempt to let the agency punish AI systems for producing answers deemed …
Coding agents dramatically lower the cost of exploring solution spaces but remain path-dependent and poor at deciding optimal endpoints, argues Mitchell Hashimoto and others in a debate about reading versus not reading c…
A user asked several AI systems, including ChatGPT, to infer personal details from their writing and queries, and ChatGPT produced a detailed list of inferences with confidence levels, such as age, homeownership, and per…
A summer reading list highlights eight books, including 'Maya: Seed Takes Root' by Anand Gandhi and Zain Memon, which features a planet-wide tree network that allows humans to control the world through desire, and 'The R…
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company X.AI sued Minnesota on Tuesday over a pending state law that would ban the creation and distribution of digitally manipulated nude images without consent, arguing the measure v…
Google Cloud announced the general availability of BigQuery Conversational Analytics and the Conversational Analytics API, adding to the existing GA of Conversational Analytics in Looker, with Conversational Analytics in…
A corporate fad of 'tokenmaxxing'—maximizing usage of AI tokens—is fading as workplaces see costs rise without productivity gains, according to Vincent Gusdorf, head of AI analytics at Moody's Ratings. Gusdorf's report r…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said during an appearance on the "Relentless" podcast that AI will never lead to a shorter work week, arguing that people will be busier in a post-superintelligence world and will secretly be happy …
Lilian Weng, cofounder of Thinking Machines Lab, announced her departure citing severe health issues over the past seven months, sparking a conversation about burnout in AI startups. AI community figures including Elasti…
AI is enabling cybercriminals to personalize phishing attacks at scale, according to a Washington Post opinion piece. The technology allows attackers to craft convincing messages tailored to individual targets, making sc…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the company does not support a ban on open-source AI but called for targeted frameworks to prevent illicit model distillation and development by adversarial entities, citing China as the p…
Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo suggested during a July 16 broadcast that opposition to data centers might be foreign-funded, echoing an earlier apology for similar claims about a Utah project. Right-wing media, whic…
Microsoft reported that customers across industries moved from AI experimentation to deploying AI for real-world business outcomes in FY26, with the emergence of Frontier Firms embedding AI at the core of operations. Ato…
Harvard Kennedy School on June 3 unveiled its HKS 2036 strategy, setting a decade-long goal to train 600 public-sector technologists and 6,000 technologically informed public leaders by the school's centennial. The plan …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he does not believe people would want an AI to replace his job, stating during the 'Invest Like The Best' podcast that 'the world wants to know about the person that's going to be responsible f…
Sarah Newman, director of art and education at metaLAB at Harvard, is collecting anonymous confessions about AI use through a wooden box at events, revealing widespread uncertainty and angst over appropriate use of the t…