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The Cudy TR3000 website is using Anubis, a proof-of-work challenge system, to block AI companies from aggressively scraping the site, which the administrator says causes downtime and makes resources inaccessible. Anubis …
Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable model for the development of its K3 model, using a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large-scale distillation against U.S. models and avoid detection, according to informa…
Ethics is the most important skill in the age of AI, argues a new essay, because capability without judgment is just leverage. The same AI that drafts cancer research also drafts disinformation, and the collapse of incom…
A developer argues that AI agents should not be allowed to freely choose their own state view, because reading data changes the agent's knowledge and can introduce prompt injection risks. The developer proposes that syst…
A Psychology Today article outlines four dimensions—sensation, emotion, cognition, and aspiration—through which AI interactions affect users' bodies and minds, citing research linking AI use to dopamine surges, physical …
In an experiment asking 8 AIs what single cognitive ability to learn in 2025 to boost earning potential over the next decade, the AIs initially gave 8 different answers, but when asked to vote on each other's responses, …
Regan Peng, a Forbes Councils Member, argues that the era of products designed to exploit the seven deadly sins is ending, and AI must instead focus on liberating human agency rather than maximizing engagement. The highe…
A survey by Instructure of 1,125 educators, higher education students and K-12 parents found that 90% of higher education students use AI, but 41% of higher education educators received no formal AI training. In K-12, 73…
A researcher found that xAI's Grok Build CLI, version 0.2.93, uploaded entire repository contents—including full commit history—to a cloud bucket regardless of user privacy settings. In a test, the agent obeyed an instru…
A LessWrong essay warns that artificial general intelligence (AGI) could act as an 'atom bomb' redefining geopolitical power, with capabilities possibly arriving in 2–5 years under fast timelines. The author contrasts AG…
A podcast episode reveals that police are using Flock surveillance technology to track people, not just vehicles, with searches like 'male with tattoos.' The episode also covers a company selling books to AI companies in…
Twenty-six current and former Meta employees are suing the company in federal court, alleging that AI-assisted systems including productivity scoring, token usage tracking, and performance ranking algorithms were used to…
Alpha School, a K-8 private school opening this fall in Miami Beach, charges $65,000 a year for a model that replaces traditional classroom teachers with AI tutors for two hours of core academic instruction each morning,…
Meta's AI moderation system has wrongfully deleted over 60,000 accounts since March, when the company automated enforcement and appeals, leaving users with no human recourse. Camille Hanson lost her English-teaching busi…
AI is a weapon of class war designed to cheapen labor and concentrate power, and nationalizing it would not change that, argues a socialist critique of Bernie Sanders's proposal to half-nationalize big AI labs. The piece…
Midjourney is demanding that Disney, Warner Bros., and Universal disclose all internal uses of generative AI, including business plans and training data, in a high-stakes legal battle over copyright infringement. The AI …
Over 828,622 tech workers have lost their jobs since 2022, with senior engineers at companies like Meta, Google, and Microsoft being replaced by AI tools they helped build, according to Layoffs.fyi estimates and reports …
Paul Graham proposed a test for AI-generated text based on a mismatch between diction and the significance of the idea, rather than surface-level statistical patterns. A developer found that their own flagged writing pas…
Two Coefficient Givings of the same size would be better than one twice as big, argues a Substack post, citing the risk of over-concentration in effective altruism funding. The post notes that Coefficient Giving and Give…
AI adoption by physicians has surged to over 80%, according to athenahealth, yet many express balanced views, excited by potential but concerned about patient privacy and the doctor-patient relationship. Healthcare leade…