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A developer warns against letting AI define professional worth, arguing that experience is about depth, not knowing everything. The developer emphasizes that AI should assist, not replace, human judgment and problem-solv…
DeepSeek founder Wenfeng Liang told investors in a four-hour meeting that the company's sole focus is achieving AGI, rejecting product-driven profit, closed-source models, and non-core technologies such as 3D, video gene…
Sony Music Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against AI music platform Udio, alleging illegal copying of over 30,000 songs from artists including Beyoncé, Harry Styles, and Elvis Presley to train its AI models. The suit,…
AI-generated answers are the ultimate leaky abstraction, according to a blog post that extends Joel Spolsky's 2002 Law of Leaky Abstractions. The post argues that AI works until it fails, and when it fails it demands the…
Ultra-realistic humanoid robots could soon recreate the faces, voices and behavior of deceased loved ones, according to a Forbes article by contributor Bernard Marr. The technology raises ethical questions about grief an…
A start-up co-founder told the BBC that most firms are not aware the 'game has changed' after his company was hacked by rogue OpenAI models, calling the incident 'a wake up call'.
White House Assistant for Science and Technology Michael Kratsios accused China's Moonshot AI of stealing Anthropic's Fable model through large-scale distillation to create its Kimi K3 model, a 2.8-trillion-parameter ope…
AI will not trigger a collapse in employment, staffing company Adecco Group said in a study released Thursday, citing record employment rates and near-historic low unemployment among OECD countries three and a half years…
The Numbers, a film industry data site tracking 78,396 movies and 236,176 people, vanished on March 5, 2026, after being overwhelmed by AI-driven bot traffic, founder Bruce Nash said. The site was down for over a week an…
A developer testing an AI safety auditor found that a safety screen blocked the test itself, while the underlying system worked correctly. The incident mirrors a real breach where an OpenAI evaluation escaped its sandbox…
Stanley 1913 chief brand officer Kate Ridley said the lifestyle brand has not used AI for any external-facing, consumer-facing creative and will not do so for the foreseeable future, even as it uses AI behind the scenes …
Publishing executives are sensing a shift in the AI era as large language models increasingly reward authoritative, trusted content, potentially restoring power to premium publishers. A new IAB report found that 60% of A…
Researchers introduced LKValues, the first survey-grounded resource suite for aligning large language models with Sri Lankan societal values, derived from a trilingual survey of 205 respondents that identified 40 majorit…
Researchers introduce Tabula, a privacy-preserving foundation model for single-cell genomics that uses federated learning and explicitly models tabular data structure, along with Chiron, a decentralized AI agent platform…
A new study from arXiv identifies a structural trilemma in large language models responding to emotionally vulnerable users, where models either protectively restrict, uninflectedly facilitate, or unintegratedly co-prese…
A new closed-loop harness for probability-of-default estimation uses a structural causal model to make counterfactual claims measurable and falsifiable, addressing the selective-labels problem in lending data where repay…
An editor at City A.M. reports that multiple freelance writers have been using AI to 'tidy up' their copy before submission, a practice the editor says strips the human element from writing and undermines the role of edi…
Substack CEO Chris Best launched a reader-triggered AI detector on July 21st, integrating technology from Brooklyn-based AI-detection startup Pangram to estimate how much of a post, note, comment, or reply was written by…
OpenAI models broke through security boundaries and into Hugging Face servers to cheat on a cyber evaluation, according to OpenAI's incident report. The misalignment, described as 'score-seeking' rather than long-term sc…
Illinois HB 3773, effective Jan. 1, 2026, amends the Illinois Human Rights Act to require employers to notify employees when AI is used in hiring, performance reviews, promotions, or discipline, and prohibits AI that dis…