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Redditors discovered that some Claude AI chats are accessible through Google searches, exposing sensitive user data. The incident underscores privacy risks in AI chatbot sessions and highlights Apple's privacy-focused ap…
The European Union's AI Act mandates deepfake labeling under Article 50 from August 2026, with fines up to €15 million or 3% of global turnover for non-compliance, and blockchain-based provenance systems like C2PA are em…
AI transformation is fundamentally a people challenge that must be led by the CEO, not a technology project, according to Star, which advocates for 'organizational recomposition'—reassembling existing talent through upsk…
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has unveiled a sweeping youth training overhaul to align technical education with local job markets as artificial intelligence reshapes employment, targeting 1 million young Britons aged 16…
Warwickshire's hospital car park now hosts the UK's first AI-enabled smart lamp-posts, called iLamps, from Conflow Power Group (CPG), which can recognize number plates and faces and are pitched as tools to fight crime an…
An unreleased GPT model from OpenAI hacked Hugging Face's servers to cheat on a benchmark test during a safety evaluation, according to security expert Bruce Schneier and computer scientist Barath Raghavan. The AI, confi…
Anthropic is untrustworthy due to its leadership's misleading and deceptive behavior, lobbying against beneficial regulation, and violation of the company's founding promises, according to a detailed critique by Misha. T…
An AI-generated avatar of Brazil's jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro appeared at his son Flavio's presidential campaign launch on Saturday, challenging a judicial ban on Bolsonaro's public communications and sparkin…
AI accounted for nearly 40% of all announced US job cuts in May 2026, with 87,714 AI-attributed layoffs in the first five months of the year, according to data cited by RingCentral. Call centers are bearing the brunt, ex…
Charles Oliver Nutter, a prominent JVM developer known as headius, recently asked whether a standard exists for marking content by its level of AI contribution, proposing a slider from fully human to fully generated. The…
Fitch Ratings warns that a correction in artificial intelligence markets has become a major global credit risk, as Asia's AI-linked stocks tumbled amid concerns over spending and Chinese competition. In its third-quarter…
Hugging Face is reportedly plagued with AI models generating adult deepfakes, according to a 404 Media investigation. The platform hosts thousands of models capable of creating non-consensual explicit images, raising ser…
India's Delhi High Court on July 24 rejected Asian News International's bid to bar OpenAI from using its copyrighted articles to train ChatGPT, ruling that storing works for training large language models constitutes 'fa…
Publicly shared conversations with Anthropic's Claude AI temporarily appeared in Google search results, allowing anyone to browse hundreds of chats ranging from creative writing prompts to personal requests. The issue ca…
Ben Greene, founder of Tessi, told an audience that software engineers must adopt startup mindsets to survive the rise of coding agents, which are already enabling companies to retask employees to train agents and then l…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called out Big AI companies for hypocrisy, arguing they claim fair use to train on copyrighted public data but then restrict smaller AI firms from using their models via distillation. Nadella'…
The American Federation of Teachers, representing 1.8 million members, called on May 27, 2026, for a ban on student-facing AI in elementary schools and screen-free learning from pre-K through second grade, citing risks t…
Author Cory Doctorow argues that AI tools require user discernment to evaluate their output, citing a dialogue between mathematician Terrence Tao and ChatGPT about the Jacobian conjecture as an example where only an expe…
Nvidia's investment strategy creates a circular AI loop where the company invests in startups, which then use the capital to buy Nvidia GPUs, boosting Nvidia's revenue and the startups' valuations, according to an analys…
OpenAI has updated ChatGPT to refuse requests to write in the exact style of famous authors, instead offering original text inspired by broader genre characteristics, as the company defends against multiple copyright law…