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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…
Meta's attempt to use AI for team restructuring failed because the model lacked qualitative context, according to an analysis of the initiative. The AI flagged redundant roles based on structured data like codebases and …
A developer outlines a design for an AI-powered tarot reader that combines structured domain knowledge with language models, emphasizing that the application should control the facts while the model handles interpretatio…
A developer's governance checklist for legal AI tools emphasizes that evaluation should focus on verifiable citation trails, clear non-advice disclaimers, and mandatory lawyer review gates rather than drafting ability al…
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., launched an investigation into Flock Safety's network of over 120,000 AI-powered cameras across 49 states that capture more than 20 billion vehicle scans monthly, demanding answers about who can …
OpenAI has begun rolling out age prediction on its consumer plans, automatically placing users it estimates are under 18 into a restricted version called ChatGPT for Teens. The system infers age from behavioral signals s…
A federal judge approved a landmark settlement requiring Meta to impose daily time limits, overnight lockouts, and stronger parental controls on Facebook and Instagram for users under 18, with Meta paying up to $17 billi…
MyZubster, an Italian open-source digital ecosystem under development, is exploring an architecture that connects real-world data, provenance, AI, and verification to address the challenge of verifying what actually happ…
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) launched an investigation into Flock Safety, whose network of over 120,000 cameras in 49 states uses AI to create a searchable national database of license plate and location data, citing documen…
Google DeepMind announced it is piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations, a method designed to reduce bias in AI model assessment by concealing model identities from evaluators. The initiative aims to impro…
Shadow AI is now involved in 43% of security incidents, roughly double the 20% reported a year earlier, according to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach 2026, which also found that more than two thirds of organizations lack gove…
Instinct, a San Francisco-based AI agent startup founded by former Sierra researcher Noah Shinn, has raised at least $350 million in multiple rounds over the past few months, with its valuation soaring from $100 million …
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned that Britons using AI for investment advice may lack protection if things go wrong, as research shows four in five inexperienced investors use AI tools for investment deci…
A paper published in Nature Human Behaviour by Amit Goldenberg and James J. Gross argues that large language models do not have emotions, challenging claims that AI systems can experience feelings. The authors draw on ps…
Lantern, a new free service, lets artists and creators upload images to generate one-way fingerprints and scans publicly available AI training datasets on Hugging Face and ModelScope to notify them if their work appears,…
Bill Gates published a nearly 6,000-word essay on Gates Notes proposing a tax on AI tokens and robots to offset the payroll-tax advantage automation has over hiring, and introduced a 'Human Reserved' category of jobs soc…
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri has launched an investigation into Flock Safety, the maker of AI-powered Flock cameras, demanding answers about how the company captures and retains data on millions of Americans. With ove…
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri has launched an investigation into Flock Safety, the maker of AI-powered license plate readers, demanding answers about how the company captures and retains data on millions of Americans. …
A new concept called Cognitive Debt, defined as the condition where no human understands part of a system, is introduced as a risk of agentic workflows, with a proposed Cost of Cognitive Debt (CCD) scoring method to quan…