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The Trump administration is drawing a new line on China by accusing Chinese companies of stealing U.S. technology through industrial-scale AI model distillation while defending open-weight AI development. Chief technolog…
The Delhi High Court will rule today on whether OpenAI can be restrained from using copyrighted material to train its large language models, in a case brought by news agency ANI Media Pvt Ltd. The interim injunction, if …
A developer reflects on the existential dread spreading among software engineers as AI coding agents automate complex tasks, stripping away the cognitive struggle that once made programming satisfying. The engineer has d…
Scambaiter Kitboga manipulated an AI-powered scam call into hallucinating, demonstrating vulnerabilities in conversational AI systems used by fraudsters. The video, posted on YouTube, shows Kitboga feeding the AI contrad…
The White House accused Moonshot AI of using a sophisticated distillation attack to exploit Anthropic's Fable model for its Kimi K3, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warning that sanctions and Entity List designatio…
A reader argues that AI-written articles lack depth because the AI discovers the content at the same time as the reader, leaving no author behind to answer questions or provide genuine insight.
A TCS study of 300 manufacturers across North America and Europe found that no surveyed organization plans to reduce Physical AI investment, with 26% planning to increase spending, signaling a shift from standalone autom…
Solopreneurs should not hand over client-facing work, relationship-building, or original creative tasks to AI, according to a Fast Company contributor who runs a solo business. The author cites Stanford's 2026 AI Index R…
A website administrator has deployed Anubis, a proof-of-work system inspired by Hashcash, to block AI companies from aggressively scraping the site, which causes downtime and resource inaccessibility. The system imposes …
Google launched selfie video sign-in on 23 July 2026, allowing users to recover their Google Account by recording a short video of their face instead of using a password or code. The enrolled selfie is stored on Google's…
A software developer expresses existential and economic anxiety after the latest Claude model disproved the Jacobian conjecture, highlighting AI's rapid advancement in coding and mathematics. The author questions their o…
Elon Musk predicts artificial intelligence will surpass the combined intelligence of all humans within five years, urging immediate industry-wide safety coordination among frontier AI developers. In an interview with The…
A series of essays argues that AI agents do not eliminate the need for human teams but shift their work earlier into the decision-making process, where teams must define what is worth building before an agent executes. T…
AI-powered voice cloning scams are actively defrauding families in Canada, including British Columbia, by using as little as three to five seconds of a child's recorded speech to generate convincing fake emergency calls,…
Higgsfield AI's terms of use, updated August 30, 2025, grant the company a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide license to use user inputs and outputs for training and marketing, despite stating users retain ownership. The …
The OWASP LLM Top 10 identifies critical vulnerabilities in large language models, including Prompt Injection, Insecure Output Handling, and Training Data Poisoning. Prompt Injection exploits the blurring of boundaries b…
The AI boom is straining family dynamics, particularly in the Bay Area, where many men work in AI while their partners feel neglected and overwhelmed by the technology's dominance in their lives. One woman describes her …
A developer argues that replacing human developers with AI web agents creates more problems than it solves, citing that minor UI changes can break AI workflows and lead to increased debugging and security vulnerabilities…
A customer reports that Paddle's AI-powered support system is failing to escalate issues to human agents, causing misrouted payouts and unresolved problems. The user describes a broken loop where automated responses inst…
OpenAI faces a lawsuit after its ChatGPT Health feature allegedly advised a Florida pastor to delay medical treatment, leading to a dangerous pulmonary condition. Scott Winters, a pastor, filed the suit in San Francisco …