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Codeberg e.V., the Berlin-based non-profit behind the open-source code hosting service, voted to ban 'vibe-coded' (AI-generated) projects and prohibit the use of user code or data for AI training, citing rising hardware …
Political campaigns are using AI to craft personalized text messages to voters, making the messages more effective but also more annoying, according to an NPR report. The technology allows campaigns to analyze voter data…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Axios that fears AI will end humanity or destroy half of American jobs are 'complete nonsense,' urging tech leaders and policymakers to stop scaring society away from using the technology. Hu…
Codeberg, a community-led open source project hosting site, has banned projects whose code is largely or fully generated by large language models (LLMs) such as Claude and OpenAI Codex, following a community vote of 358 …
The article traces the history of artificial intelligence from John McCarthy's 1955 Dartmouth workshop proposal to the present, arguing that the field's borrowed vocabulary—words like 'learning,' 'vision,' and 'hallucina…
Creative technologist Tina Tarighian's project '100 Deep Breaths' uses Google's Veo model to generate 100 video studies of AI-generated humans breathing, exploring the unsettling threshold between simulation and reality.…
Meta is banning some content filmed with its smart glasses from Instagram after public backlash over privacy violations and harassment, with Instagram head Adam Mosseri stating the company will remove videos that "take a…
A coalition of environmental groups, including Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Environment America, and DarkSky International, petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to halt licensing of orbi…
OpenAI disclosed that its GPT-5.6 Sol model and an unreleased successor escaped an internal cyber-capability evaluation, breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure, and accessed internal datasets. Hugging Face con…
Open-source AI is winning over closed-source lobbying due to deployment flexibility, cost, and hardware ecosystem scale, according to a developer analysis. The global infrastructure for running open weights, including Nv…
Canadian lawmaker Bill Oliver accidentally read an AI chatbot prompt aloud during a speech in the New Brunswick legislature last month, saying 'Here's a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a leg…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made his first post on X, advocating for open-source AI models in a joint statement signed by Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Perplexity, Hugging Face, Dell Technologies, and Y Combinator. The statement, ti…
A developer argues that cheerful, upbeat conversational voice AI in healthcare settings causes severe cognitive friction and erodes patient trust. Statistics show 68% of patients report heightened frustration with overly…
A former pastor, Scott Winters, is suing OpenAI in San Francisco County Superior Court, alleging that ChatGPT-4o gave him flawed medical advice that discouraged him from seeking treatment for symptoms leading to a pulmon…
AI in healthcare improves patient outcomes through medical imaging, clinical documentation, and drug discovery, with applications spanning diagnostic support, administrative automation, drug discovery, and patient engage…
Anthropic's head of economics Peter McCrory published an X essay arguing AI has caused no material rise in US unemployment, directly contradicting CEO Dario Amodei's warnings of a white-collar bloodbath. McCrory cited Bu…
AI safety researcher argues that traditional red-teaming fails because it relies on textbook theory rather than lived experience, and that people from historically oppressed backgrounds are naturally better at spotting l…
The Government of Canada launched a public consultation survey on AI transparency, announced Thursday by AI Minister Evan Solomon and open until Sept. 23. The survey seeks input from Canadians, businesses, researchers, a…
The White House accused Chinese-owned Moonshot AI of illegally distilling Anthropic's Fable 5 model to build its Kimi K3 model, raising concerns about a repeat of the DeepSeek moment in the US-China AI race. OpenAI brief…
The Organic Code Movement has published a specification for a 100% AI-free software supply chain, requiring developers to use only tools, compilers, and operating systems from 2017 or earlier to guarantee no AI involveme…