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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…
TRM Labs has appointed former Monetary Authority of Singapore official Ziqing Ang as Head of Policy for Asia-Pacific, as the blockchain intelligence firm tracks more than $103 billion in adjusted crypto crime volume in 2…
Wafa Ben-Hassine, the U.N. Human Rights Office's first chief of digital technology and human rights, has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI. She is focusing on increasing accountability and transp…
Andrea Bartz, a New York Times-bestselling thriller author, is named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI after leading a class-action lawsuit against Anthropic that resulted in a $1.5 billion settlement, the …
Mira Murati, founder of Thinking Machines Lab and former OpenAI executive, has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI for 2025. Her startup, which raised $2 billion in the largest seed-funding round i…
Glass, Lewis & Co. reports that cybersecurity oversight is now nearly universal at large-cap companies, while defined board oversight of AI is emerging quickly but still lags, with about 70% of large European companies a…
A Gallup survey in May found that 71 percent of Americans oppose new data centers in their communities, with 48 percent strongly opposed, exceeding peak opposition to nuclear power plants at 63 percent. Heatmap's survey …
A developer who built a YouTube comment classifier using regex word-matching discovered that the tool misclassified 53% of test cases, including promoting social commentary and chatter into 'needs' due to accidental keyw…
New York's Synthetic Performers law, which took effect in June, has drawn its first four complaints from advertisers allegedly using AI-generated models or actors without disclosure, all currently under review by the sta…
Human-in-the-loop AI is becoming the default operating model in banking, according to an industry perspective, as institutions prioritize oversight and accountability over full automation. The shift aligns with regulator…
SourceHut has decided to update its terms of service to restrict or prohibit the use of large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI technologies on its platform, following a community discussion and internal del…
New York Focus analyzed 54 op-eds by New York elected officials published since May 1 in City & State, the Albany Times Union, and the New York Daily News, finding that 28 contained AI-generated text. Nine politicians, i…
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, warned in a 5,784-word essay on his personal website that there is no plan to ease society into the AI era, which could become one of the most turbulent periods in human history. He p…
A new paper argues that return-to-office (RTO) mandates act as a workforce-selection rule that disproportionately excludes disabled, neurodivergent, and caregiving engineers, thereby narrowing the lived experience that s…
Deutsche Bank analysis of 30 countries found Britain is more exposed than any other major economy to AI disruption, with a high share of the domestic workforce in AI-impacted roles and significant services exports at ris…
A Hacker News user proposed an OpenAI-compatible API for open-weight models that guarantees zero prompt retention, no training on user data, and logs only billing metadata. The user, who is considering running it on an R…
Howcomet, a new AI chat app designed specifically for children, launched with a 7-day free trial, offering age-appropriate answers, interactive games, and parental controls that block unsafe questions and keep voice data…
A new arXiv study (2608.25869v1) finds that prior scores anchor LLM-as-a-Judge systems, shifting ratings toward those values across 192,000 attempted evaluations (185,271 successful), with seven of eight models showing 9…
Researchers from an unnamed institution released a new benchmark for Key Point Analysis (KPA), arguing that existing benchmarks suffer from grouping quality, redundancy, coverage, and mapping issues, and introduced a str…