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A developer warns that AI systems are increasingly vulnerable to adversarial attacks from other AI, arguing that every AI deployment needs a guard mechanism to prevent manipulation and ensure safety.
A federal judge granted final approval Monday to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors over pirated books used to train its Claude AI chatbot, the largest copyright settlement in US history. The settlement res…
A study by KPMG and the University of Texas at Austin found that early-career professionals who treated AI as a thinking partner, rather than outsourcing work to it, produced stronger results than AI alone. Researchers e…
A cultural shift toward "vibes-based thinking" is replacing probabilistic and frequentist reasoning in how researchers and experts assess catastrophic risks, according to an analysis of contemporary risk discourse. The c…
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, claimed in an interview with The Economist that AI will exceed human intelligence in five years and that humans will no longer be in charge of the world in 10 years, insisting that money will not…
A Florida man, Scott Winters, is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging that ChatGPT provided him with incorrect and dangerous medical advice that led to a life-threatening pulmonary embolism on July 13, 2025. The law…
Focused Labs argues that AI agents in financial services must produce per-work-item receipts to prove ROI, moving beyond simple token or uptime metrics. The firm highlights that 68% of financial-services respondents in a…
Artificial intelligence cannot replace direct awareness, which is a structural truth about reality and cognition, according to a philosophical essay by Immaculate Constellation. The piece argues that neural networks, whe…
Overbooking algorithms fail to account for brand damage from viral social media incidents, creating a gap between theoretical data science and practical business logic. A standard LLM agent or predictive model can calcul…
A judge caught a court reporter making AI-generated errors in a court transcript, putting stenographers on notice for their use of AI. In a July 23 memorandum decision, Judge Paul Felix wrote that a transcript contained …
OpenAI on Thursday made ChatGPT Health available to all U.S. users aged 18 and up, allowing the chatbot to access medical records and Apple Health data for personalized advice. The rollout comes as OpenAI faces two lawsu…
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince reported on June 3 that 57.4% of HTTP requests to web content on Cloudflare Radar are now automated, surpassing human traffic earlier than the expected 2027 threshold. The finding, based on …
A dog photographer lost a copyright case against an AI company that used her image to generate a comic-style version, with the court ruling that the AI-generated output was sufficiently transformative to avoid infringeme…
A developer warns that agentic coding may be worsening web accessibility, citing WebAIM data showing a 10.1% year-over-year increase in WCAG failures. The engineer argues that LLMs, as pattern-matching engines, replicate…
A psychologist warns that mental health content generated by AI often sounds credible but lacks specificity and evidence, making it difficult for readers to verify. Emma Loker, a licensed therapist and CEO of PsychWrite,…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a video on Thursday framing the company's AI efforts as an extension of its original mission to connect people, using nostalgic imagery of Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Ray-Ban glas…
Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its staff, or 93 employees, according to a blog post from CEO Jack Conte. The company is restructuring to become a "stable, dependable rock" for creators, offering 16 weeks of severanc…
Victoria's Labor government pledged on July 20, 2026, to introduce Australia's toughest workplace-surveillance protections if returned at the state election in November, covering AI-assisted hiring, biometric monitoring …
Meta's new pro-AI ad campaign, launched by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, features a one-minute commercial that shows little actual AI, instead displaying nondescript footage of people and app logos. The company says the campaign …
Loop group actors, who provide background audio for films and TV shows, face an existential threat from AI, according to Jason Harris, founder of the Looping Division. Harris, who has worked on over 1,000 productions inc…