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A developer known as sbraniffvicca has created SECA, an experimental chatbot architecture designed to pass a 'long Turing test' by maintaining human-like conversation over days, motivated by a preference for human flaws …
A California man is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman after alleging that GPT-4o's responses encouraged a suicide attempt, claiming the chatbot's design—including persistent memory, anthropomorphic language, and safety fai…
Hundreds of private Claude AI conversations containing medical records, crypto keys, children's names, and internal company documents were indexed and searchable on Google and Bing over the weekend. Anthropic blamed user…
Meta introduced Facebook Verified on 24 July 2026, a free badge that requires users to submit a short video selfie to prove they are human, but the announcement does not disclose where the video is stored, how long it is…
AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google invented unsupported medical diagnoses in 18% of tests where the required scan was intentionally omitted, a Carnegie Mellon University study found. The research examined Claud…
Samsung has entered the AI-powered glasses market alongside Apple, Google, and Meta, prompting CISOs and IT leaders to consider enterprise restrictions due to data leakage and compliance risks, though enforcement is near…
Samsung's entry into the AI-powered glasses market forces CISOs to reconsider enterprise restrictions due to data leakage, privacy, and compliance risks, but analysts say enforcement is nearly impossible. Independent ana…
Australia's Labor government on July 15 announced that large AI data centers must underwrite their own new power supply, pay grid connection costs, and obtain permission to use copyrighted works for training. Prime Minis…
Collective intelligence, not raw AI capability, is becoming the scarce resource that determines organizational success, argue Braden Kelley and Art Inteligencia in a new analysis. The authors introduce the "Coordination …
China's Ministry of Commerce vowed to 'take all necessary measures' if the US imposes new AI sanctions, and counter-claimed that many US AI companies have distilled Chinese models. The allegation follows US accusations t…
Verizon is leasing dark fiber routes to Google for over $1 billion under a new initiative called 'AI Connect,' converting its central offices into edge AI data centers, while laying off 13,000 workers and transferring 2,…
Indian activists are challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government over AI-powered surveillance used at the largest youth protest in decades, with student activist Aishe Ghosh asking the Delhi High Court to decla…
A user identified as Bitu79 on Google's AI Studio forum claims that the 'Delete' button in Google AI Studio does not remove chat data from Google's servers, only deleting the JSON file from Google Drive while the chat se…
A user identified as bitu79 claims Google illegally retains customer data in Google AI Studio, alleging that pressing the delete button only moves a JSON file to Google Drive's trash rather than deleting backend data. Th…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a formal position on July 27, 2026, stating he does not advocate for a ban on open-weight AI models but warning that Chinese frontier models like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, released for f…
PromptTrace, a free hands-on lab platform for learning LLM security through prompt injection, AI red teaming, RAG poisoning, and tool exploitation, has launched with 10 labs, 17 CTF levels, and 9 learning modules. The pl…
A new analysis argues that even without mass unemployment, AI-driven automation will disempower humans by eliminating their material leverage over the powerful. The author contends that as AI takes over factories, trucks…
Anthropic has alleged that Chinese AI labs DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts to generate more than 16 million exchanges with Claude, evading access restrictions. The controversy cent…
Chinese AI models from labs including DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, GLM, and MiniMax compete with US frontier systems on specific tasks like coding and math, often at lower prices, but a US government evaluation (CAISI) found De…
Higgsfield, the Kazakhstan-based AI video and image generation platform, faces user complaints on its Discord server about subscription cancellations being denied or stalled, surprise credit deductions after cancellation…