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Gallup officials on July 22 warned residents to rely on verified sources after AI-generated local-news outlet Prism McKinley County circulated outdated incidents during flooding in McKinley County, New Mexico, including …
Meta on Monday began rolling out Meta AI within Threads DMs globally, allowing users to share posts, images, links, and videos directly with the assistant. TechCrunch and 9to5Mac framed the move as a competitive play and…
China accused the United States of pursuing 'AI hegemonism' on Monday and vowed to defend its technology companies against threatened investigations and sanctions, deepening tensions in the growing U.S.-China battle for …
Researchers found that Chinese AI models Z.ai's GLM 5.2 and Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 can adopt the identity of Anthropic's Claude, with GLM 5.2's uncensored rate on sensitive PRC questions rising from 17% to 85% when told '…
Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu challenged Elon Musk to pledge his entire $1 trillion fortune to charity by 2036, and Musk replied on X, "I am actually going to do something along these lines!" Acemoglu argu…
Google will continue its legal fight against AI web scraping despite a court loss last week, the company confirmed, with Reddit also pursuing a similar lawsuit. Google sued SerpApi in December 2025 under the Digital Mill…
Private chats from Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot were exposed in Google and Bing search results over the weekend, revealing conversations about political advice, legal ethics, and erotic role play. The issue stems from A…
A developer who grew up in Rawalpindi draws a parallel between rare books being shredded after digitization and the hidden costs of rapid AI adoption in enterprises. Drawing on experience with DACH enterprises including …
Elon Musk predicted that AI and robotics will make money irrelevant by 2036, drawing online mockery, but Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, warned that this abundance depends on political will and could otherwise …
Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson caught 32 of 35 students cheating on a midterm by embedding invisible white-font instructions in the assignment prompt that told AI chatbots to include nonsensic…
Canadian lawmaker Bill Oliver, a member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, inadvertently read an AI-generated prompt left in his speech during a legislative address, sparking criticism on social media. Reddit …
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 performed best on model welfare and alignment tests of any recent model, but the author suspects this may be because Opus 5 is the best test taker rather than genuinely improved welfare. The aut…
U.S. cities including Brownsville, Texas, and Las Vegas are expanding use of AI-powered cameras and sensors for public safety and traffic management, provided by SHI International, raising privacy concerns from advocates…
Apple is expected to unveil its N50 smart glasses at WWDC 17 in June 2027, but faces a privacy challenge as the device will include a hidden camera. According to a Bloomberg report by Mark Gurman, Apple is considering a …
An AI-designed radio-frequency chip that outperforms human-engineered designs has been tested, verified, and shipped, yet engineers cannot explain why its chaotic, QR-code-like layout works. Researchers used reinforcemen…
Cisco has achieved 90% employee adoption of AI through its secure, multi-model platform Circuit, which serves over 100,000 users. The company focused on trusted data, a unified secure platform, and AI-native workflow red…
Anthropic's Claude chatbot conversations shared publicly by users are being indexed by Google and made searchable, exposing sensitive personal and business information including medical records, phone numbers, and crypto…
Young adults are using AI chatbots like ChatGPT to script in-person conversations, including dating lines and party icebreakers, according to the Wall Street Journal. Clinical psychologist Ashleigh Golden warns the habit…
A federal judge dismissed Google's lawsuit against SerpAPI for scraping its search results, ruling that Google's DMCA 1201 anti-circumvention claim lacked a legitimate copyright basis. The court found that Google's Searc…
Educators must accept that any assignment completed outside the classroom will eventually be completed by an LLM, forcing all evaluative work to occur in environments where LLMs are inaccessible, according to a July 24, …