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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the AI industry must do a better job working with communities on data center construction, arguing that the build-out can lower energy costs and reindustrialize the nation. He spoke as Nvidia…
WordPress has signed the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter, published on July 24, 2026, which asks US policymakers to avoid early restrictions on open weight AI models. The letter, backed by more than 270 co…
Meta removed four Facebook accounts and 31 Instagram accounts linked to an Iran-based operation that used AI to impersonate Americans and post about U.S. politics, attracting roughly 79,400 followers. The operation, whic…
Elon Musk's SpacexAI (formerly xAI) faces a new proposed nationwide class action lawsuit filed today by a child sexual abuse survivor, identified as Jane Doe, alleging the company trained its Grok chatbot on datasets con…
A public audit of the v0.2.1 release of the PlannerCritic engine found that three of five frozen claims were contradicted by public artifacts, including a test count discrepancy (1294 passed, 1 failed, 14 skipped vs. cla…
Sunny Hostin, co-host of 'The View,' has licensed her name and likeness to AI startup Fountain 0, allowing the company to produce AI-generated film and TV adaptations of her novels, with Hostin retaining control over her…
Conversations with AI chatbots are increasingly appearing as evidence in U.S. court cases, with at least 12 criminal and civil cases over the past two years citing such chats, according to a Washington Post report publis…
Moonbug Entertainment, the studio behind Cocomelon, has issued a generative AI policy and a 'Studio AI Bible' instructing its animators to experiment with AI while keeping a human in the loop, according to documents obta…
NetDocuments has released a study examining the relationship between AI cost and accuracy, a topic few have explored. The analysis highlights the financial implications of using AI without constraints, suggesting that un…
A poll of 2,000 UK adults released Thursday by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) found that only 12% support government powers to access private data, while 87% believe the government should be legally requir…
A Hacker News user reports that their team is frustrated with LLMs defaulting to overly cautious, compliance-officer-like responses, attributing it to strict post-training. They have tried internal agents.md files and pr…
Byrne Hobart's newsletter edition, 'Legislating from in Front of the Bench,' published on 27th August 2026, discusses the interplay between AI regulation and technological development, highlighting accidental AI plays, o…
Emil Michael, the Department of War's Chief Technology Officer, said in an exclusive interview with the Ruthless Podcast that Anthropic was removed from the Pentagon because its contract prohibited using AI for battlefie…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley called for a 'compromise' between privacy and safety in a Fox News interview, as backlash grows over the company's AI-powered license plate cameras, which have been vandalized and drawn b…
German designer Simon Weckert has created a shirt with a garish pattern, dubbed Digital Camouflage, that exploits weaknesses in AI object detection systems to hide wearers from surveillance cameras, as reported by Dezeen…
Gravitee, an API management company, warns that the real risk in enterprise AI is not autonomous agents themselves but the compounding complexity of interactions between them, which can lead to permissions creep, unclear…
MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training released a report on August 13, 2026, calling for immediate and long-term actions to address generative AI's pervasive impact on education, in…
A developer argues that software engineers should apply the Zero Trust principle to AI-generated code, conducting thorough manual reviews to prevent security vulnerabilities and technical debt. The article advises treati…
A pro-Israel website posing as a neutral research institute, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy, published more than 560,000 words in nine days as part of an Israeli-funded effort to shape AI chatbot responses about…
Google's Gemini AI chatbot produced starkly different responses based on user nationality during tests from August 24 to 26, recommending police contact for non-European nationalities like Algerian or Pakistani while off…