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A working draft white paper titled 'What policy makers need to know about AI safety and security' warns that existing AI models are already capable of mounting sophisticated cyber attacks, creating convincing fake conten…
A study of public SKILL.md files found that over 99% contain at least one quality issue, or 'skill smell,' according to a lesson in the Agent Skills Mastery course. The lesson identifies ten named skill smells, including…
A writer argues that public discourse about AI consciousness and safety lacks accountability, proposing a 'library card' approach that tracks who is responsible for claims and systems. The piece cites two papers—one show…
Anthropic's 2022 preference-training dataset (169K examples) and Nvidia's 2024 HelpSteer2 dataset, both public on Hugging Face, reveal that AI personalities are installed through specific, readable training examples rath…
Harvard Kennedy School professor Bruce Schneier advises using the 'work vs. gym' distinction to decide whether to use AI for a task, arguing that AI should assist with output-focused work but not with process-focused lea…
A user on Privacy Guides forum asks Picocrypt NG developers to clarify whether AI was used for writing or reviewing application code, not just CI/CD pipelines, given the project's security focus. The question follows a d…
The Debian project is considering a general resolution on the use of large language models (LLMs) in the creation of the distribution, with three alternatives: a total ban, rejecting LLMs 'as far as practical', or explic…
Moonshot AI's release of the 2.8 trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model has triggered White House accusations of model distillation from Anthropic's Fable model, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatening sanctions. The…
The AI Guide v9 partnership integrates data from ACS Research and the Center for AI Safety, with the authors acknowledging previous errors including overclaimed risks and biased data interpretation. The guide is restruct…
Model benchmarks are creating a fragmented AI landscape where 'the best model' depends on which specific test is valued most, according to a news analysis. GPT-5.6 leads on GPQA while Opus 5 dominates Humanity Last metri…
A practitioner warns that over-reliance on AI outputs creates a dangerous feedback loop where hallucinated patterns are mistaken for strategic insights. The author proposes a 'human-in-the-loop' validation layer and a pr…
A 77-year-old Republican man, Carl Gunn, staged a solo protest against Flock cameras in St. Petersburg, Florida, by blocking a camera's view with a sign reading "DOWN WITH FLOCK CAMERAS" to protest what he calls an invas…
A study by Romero (2025) found that graduate students who used ChatGPT from the start of a water management task converged on strikingly similar solutions, while those who delayed AI access generated more diverse ideas. …
Bill Oliver, a Progressive Conservative Party legislator in New Brunswick, Canada, delivered a speech last week that was generated by artificial intelligence, including reading the AI prompt aloud. The incident, reported…
The Government of Canada has launched a public consultation from July 23 to September 23, 2026, on advancing AI transparency, seeking input on five areas including detecting AI-generated content and tracking AI agent act…
Amazon is requiring third-party sellers to label product images or videos containing AI-generated people, following a New York law mandating transparency around synthetic performers in ads. The company will add an indica…
An analogy comparing LLM weights to the human soul suggests that viewing weights as soul-like provides a grounded perspective on how human souls might work, including the possibility of multiple instantiation across time…
Twenty-five organizations, led by Nvidia and Microsoft, published a letter urging Washington not to restrict downloadable AI models, arguing openness is a foundation of AI safety. Eight days earlier, Elon Musk's xAI face…
A developer argues that regulatory compliance for AI systems should be treated as an engineering property of the pipeline rather than a post-hoc documentation exercise. The post maps obligations from the EU AI Act, NIST …
Major online publishers including USA Today, Politico, the Economist, People, and Reuters are debating whether to block Google's crawlers as the tech giant's AI summaries reduce traffic and reuse content, with USA Today'…