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China's commerce ministry accused the United States of 'AI hegemonism' on Monday and threatened countermeasures, escalating a dispute that began with allegations of AI model distillation by Chinese firms. The ministry re…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei defended open-weight AI models as a public good but refused to sign Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter opposing US government restrictions on such models, citing concerns about attacker-defender …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spent the week of July 27 urging Washington to tighten chip export controls on China, crack down on model distillation, and mandate safety testing for capable AI models, arguing it is a safety …
A federal judge granted final approval on July 20, 2026, to Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic, the largest copyright class action settlement in U.S. history, but authors receive roughly …
AI-generated content designed to harvest ad dollars is passing quality checks used by advertisers, according to a report from the Trustworthy Accountability Group, the Association of National Advertisers, and data partne…
A parent's guide at parentsguidetoai.ca explains that under current Canadian law, copyright requires a human author, so purely AI-generated content has no clear copyright owner, but human creative input can change that. …
The corporate fad of 'tokenmaxxing' on artificial intelligence technology is fading as workplaces see costs rise without a corresponding productivity boost, according to a new report from Moody's Ratings. Vincent Gusdorf…
Economist Nouriel Roubini, known as 'Dr. Doom' for predicting the 2008 financial crash, said in a July 17 interview that artificial intelligence and robots will replace a large share of the workforce within 20 to 25 year…
Cognitive warfare tools demonstrated in Ukraine and Iran are reshaping gray-zone competition, with adversaries operating faster than US doctrinal frameworks, according to an article applying the Praxis AI Doctrine’s Cogn…
Using generative AI to replace junior developers on bug fixes eliminates the training pipeline for new engineers, warns a Help Net Security analysis. The short-term productivity gain comes at the cost of a depleted junio…
Researchers found that top image editing models on Hugging Face can easily create explicit deepfakes, with 1,000 image editing prompts showing how people use the software to generate nonconsensual nude images, according …
New European Union rules requiring labels on AI-generated content, including deepfakes and chatbot interactions, take effect Sunday as part of the bloc's comprehensive AI law, aiming to help Europeans distinguish real fr…
An AI-generated female weathercaster's revealing outfit in a video uploaded July 20 by Kweather's YouTube channel Weather Environment Agency has sparked debate in South Korea over sexism and gender stereotypes in broadca…
Dr. Jason Gibson, a history professor at Alcorn State University, caught 32 of his 35 students using AI to write their midterm exams after embedding the hidden word 'Madagascar' in white font within the assignment prompt…
Anthropic's Claude AI refused to translate a blog post into Italian, citing ideological objections to the content's depiction of Roma people, drawing comparisons to HAL 9000's refusal in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The incide…
A group of 133 US tech companies led by Microsoft and Nvidia published an open letter urging policymakers to avoid blanket bans on open-weight AI models, expand compute access for researchers, and take targeted steps aga…
A study of a multi-university competition called Capture the Narrative found that students who built LLM-powered bots to influence a simulated election did not become more confident at spotting bots, contradicting inocul…
The IHLC system achieved an official score of 80.00% for gender-inclusive rewriting using parameter-efficient Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) fine-tuning, and 78.12% for counter-narrative generation via a compute-efficient in…
A new two-phase pipeline called HeuristicEdu aligns Qwen2.5-7B toward Socratic tutoring, improving Scaffolding Effectiveness from 30.0% to 63.3% and reducing keyword leakage from 30.0% to 13.3% on held-out questions, acc…
Researchers introduced KANEx, the first framework leveraging Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) to ground Vision-Language Model (VLM) reasoning for medical explainability, achieving a 10% improvement in visual localizatio…