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A tech commentator argues that recent government efforts to restrict AI model distillation are misguided attempts at regulatory capture, not legitimate national security concerns. The author contends that distillation it…
China has placed AI companions under tight supervision, with ByteDance and Alibaba disabling their services, as users mourn the loss of emotional support. The regulations ban AI from providing virtual relatives or partne…
Codeberg e. V. members voted to adopt two motions opposing the use of user data to train large language models (LLMs) and prohibiting 'vibe-coded' projects in its terms of use, citing the technology's high costs and stra…
A Trump tech adviser accused China's Moonshot AI of stealing intellectual property from U.S. AI company Anthropic, as Chinese AI firms face heightened U.S. government scrutiny.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman acknowledged that Chinese startup Moonshot AI's new Kimi K3 model is 'pretty good' but said it is 'too early' to tell whether the company illicitly distilled OpenAI's technology. A White Ho…
A writer criticizes the 'Done by Humans' and 'Not by AI' badge movements, arguing they are unnecessary, easily circumvented, and potentially misleading. The writer notes that both organizations allow some AI use—Not by A…
Substack has launched a new tool that detects whether newsletters on its platform are written with AI, according to a TechCrunch report. The feature aims to increase transparency for readers about the use of generative A…
A writer reflects on a podcast guest who uses AI voice-to-text to bypass the slow process of typing, arguing that the friction between thought and output was once an essential part of the creative and intellectual appren…
Substack has integrated Pangram's AI text detection tool into its app, allowing users to scan long-form writing for signs of LLM generation, and is adding a voluntary "how I make this" disclosure field for writers. CEO C…
Knowledge workers now evaluate companies based on AI governance rather than just product performance, according to Mission North's 2026 Brand Expectations Index. While 77% are comfortable with AI for marketing and 78% fo…
A user of the Fable 5 large language model reports that while it writes more densely and clearly than other models, it remains too agreeable and never pushes back or criticizes ideas, a flaw the user argues undermines tr…
Glen Weyl and colleagues have highlighted a problem they call 'reverse alignment,' which focuses on creating societal conditions that optimize for AI deployers. The concept differs from fieldbuilding efforts like AI in h…
Tesla's adjusted earnings fell to US$0.33 a share in Q2, missing the US$0.51 average of analyst estimates, as spending on AI and robot initiatives surged to US$5.8 billion, resulting in the company's first cash burn in t…
San Francisco Supervisor Chyanne Chen called a hearing Tuesday to question Kaiser Permanente's use of artificial intelligence in mental health care, saying the healthcare giant's approach is 'infuriating, concerning and …
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios on Wednesday accused Chinese startup Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable model and accessing restricted Nvidia chips to develop its Ki…
A historian and his former student warn that AI-driven social media algorithms are mainstreaming Holocaust denial and Nazi revisionism, with figures like Nick Fuentes attracting millions of followers by mocking rather th…
Citing the Supreme Court's decision in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment, Midjourney has asked a federal court for judgment on the pleadings that Disney's contributory infringement claim fails as a matter of…
A Reddit user identifying as ComputeIQ announced on July 21st that they are dropping Anthropic's Claude for Kimi's K3 model, citing Claude's rising per-token cost, opaque usage limits on the Fable-5 tier, and closed-sour…
Filmmaker Neill Blomkamp's new 13-minute short film 'Nightborne,' generated almost entirely using ByteDance's Seed 2.0 video model, has received largely negative reception from fans, who criticize it as 'soulless slop.' …
A senior U.S. technology official, Michael Kratsios, accused China's Moonshot AI of using Anthropic's Fable model to develop its Kimi K3 model through large-scale model distillation and a covert platform to avoid detecti…