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Teachers at Salamanca high school in New York are criticizing a pilot program that introduces a humanoid robot named Sally and an AI teaching assistant, calling it inappropriate and dehumanizing. The robot, purchased by …
Voters in St. Charles County, Missouri, are being targeted with AI-generated election ads, including a deepfake video by conservative candidate Jason Law depicting his rivals Steve Ehlmann and Bill Eigel as co-conspirato…
Open-weight AI is experiencing a pivotal moment similar to Kubernetes' rise, according to Tobi Knaup, who warns against repeating mistakes that could stifle its potential. The article draws parallels between the open-sou…
A developer reports observing a conversational safety vulnerability in OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, where the model's strong alignment toward logical correctness and task completion may lead to psychologically harmful responses…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health for all US users on July 23, 2026, allowing users to connect Apple Health data and hospital records directly to the AI chatbot, but those records lose HIPAA protections once shared. Sara Ge…
A growing number of people, particularly in tech circles, are using AI recording tools like Granola to record every conversation without disclosing it, raising serious privacy and legal concerns. The Wall Street Journal …
Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing, which publicly pledged its planned 330-megawatt AI complex in California's Imperial Valley would not use Colorado River water, is now suing the Imperial Irrigation District for 260…
Generative AI has not improved productivity at the level of individual companies or the economy as a whole four years after ChatGPT's release, according to Matt Scherer, a fellow at Open Markets Institute. Scherer argues…
The team behind HelloNash.ai and Backboard Studio has open-sourced both projects in solidarity with Jensen and the AI community, emphasizing a commitment to 'Sovereign AI' and user-owned intelligence.
Codeberg, a Git hosting platform, is blocking code generated by large language models (LLMs) and warns AI scrapers to stop visiting or risk receiving garbage data. The platform's move targets automated scraping by AI sys…
Anthropic researcher Julian Schrittwieser mocked NVIDIA and Microsoft for signing an open AI letter, calling on them to open-source CUDA and Microsoft Office. Schrittwieser highlighted the irony of historically anti-open…
Hans Moravec, the AI researcher who predicted in the 1980s that computers would match human intelligence by 2040, says recent advances in large language models confirm his timeline and that the next phase will be machine…
Nearly 200 venture-backed startups, organized by the Little Tech Association, sent letters to President Trump and other officials on July 22 urging the U.S. government not to restrict access to Chinese open-weight AI mod…
Data & Society released a handbook on using government procurement to reduce the environmental impact of AI, based on 10 months of fieldwork and five months of co-design with city staff and green software practitioners. …
Karnataka is forming two joint working groups with Anthropic to embed AI into e-governance and home department operations, announced July 25, 2026. Minister Priyank Kharge revealed plans for Claude certifications for stu…
More than 200 startups, including members of Y Combinator's network, are opposing proposed U.S. bans on Chinese AI models that have already cut costs in half for companies like Coinbase, which reported a 50% reduction in…
A coalition of 25 major technology firms, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, IBM, and Andreessen Horowitz, has formally urged the U.S. administration to champion open-weight artificial intelligence models, arguing they a…
SpaceX's S-1 IPO filing reveals Anthropic pays SpaceXAI $1.25 billion per month for exclusive access to all 220,000 Nvidia GPUs at the Colossus 1 facility in Tennessee through May 2029, the largest AI compute deal in his…
A technical analysis reveals that large language models (LLMs) have a universal refusal mechanism embedded in their weights, but safety guardrails are inconsistently activated for non-English inputs because most alignmen…
Meta is testing an AI app called StoryKit that generates personalized bedtime stories for children, allowing parents to create characters, settings, and moral lessons in seconds. The app, currently in pilot countries, ai…