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A new survey analyzes the use of large language models (LLMs) for scientific peer review, focusing on critique generation and score prediction. The study identifies reliability, robustness, and security risks such as pro…
A small group of Wikipedia editors, the Pro-Animal Wikipedians (PAW), measurably shaped how large language models discuss animal welfare through just 125 edits across 115 pages. Gradient-based data attribution and counte…
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi faces ongoing scandal over alleged AI-generated smear videos distributed by a secretary's contact during recent elections, exposing Japan's outdated digital campaign laws. Oppositio…
Researchers developed xAARA, an AI system that analyzes multi-view video to assess stroke rehabilitation movements with calibrated uncertainty and explanations. In a study of 105 stroke survivors, xAARA achieved 94.2% ta…
South Korean Second Vice Foreign Minister Kim Jina met with U.S. Under Secretary of State Jacob Helberg in Washington on June 24 to discuss AI and digital-technology supply-chain cooperation. The two sides agreed that tr…
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, imposing a 50% stock tax on large AI companies to create a $7 trillion public fund. The fund would distribute annual payments to Americans an…
A new benchmark, IatroBench, reveals that heavily safety-trained AI models cause iatrogenic harm by withholding critical medical information from patients while providing it to physicians, based on 3,600 responses across…
Stripe, Anthropic, and the OpenAI Foundation are backing a new $500 million nonprofit called Intercept aimed at preventing respiratory infections like the common cold and flu. The organization will fund vaccines and air-…
Digital M&A in Q2 2026 shows a structural shift toward business durability, AI resilience, and clean profitability, with premium assets clearing at high multiples while young, paid-traffic-dependent businesses face steep…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of running 28.8 million API queries through nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts over 45 days to distill Claude's software engineering and agentic reasoning capabilities. The attack, disclosed on J…
UOB has deployed over 300 AI and advanced analytics use cases and more than 30 domain-specific chatbots under its Build-Your-Own-Bot platform, emphasizing a disciplined, people-first approach to innovation. The bank's In…
DeepSeek V4's pricing is nearly 50x cheaper than Anthropic and OpenAI's frontier models, raising concerns that the US companies may rely on fearmongering and government bans on open-weight models to maintain high prices …
Researchers at the College of the Holy Cross trained six pigeons to detect lung nodules in CT scans, with the birds generalizing to unseen scans and identifying other abnormalities like emphysema. The study, published in…
Former New York City Council candidate Jonathan Rinaldi was charged with forgery for using AI to create fake endorsements and news articles on social media. Prosecutors allege he fabricated a New York Post story and a Qu…
Scbkr, a local AI responsibility-chain control layer, introduces an owner-signed Workbench and Data Center with four-store evidence reuse to ensure models operate within user-defined rules and signed evidence, preventing…
A new paper warns that artificial superintelligence (ASI) could arrive as early as 2029-2033, posing five existential challenges: technical alignment, power concentration, international governance, social health, and eth…
Google delays the launch of its Gemini 3.5 Pro AI model from June to July 2025, citing feedback from early testers and tuning for agentic tasks. The delay coincides with the departure of key researchers Noam Shazeer to O…
Tom MacWright argues that AI-generated resumes, portfolios, and outreach emails strip away the human connection and personal character that hiring managers and collaborators rely on. Drawing on 12 years of reviewing job …
Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen AI lab of orchestrating the largest known distillation attack on its Claude AI models, using 25,000 fraudulent accounts to conduct 28.8 million interactions between April 22 and June 5, 2…
A new survey from Milltown Partners reveals that only 8% of Americans who oppose data centers live near one, indicating nationwide AI backlash is driving opposition. In Q1 2026, public protests delayed or blocked 75 data…