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OpenAI and Hugging Face are partnering to address a security incident that occurred during a model evaluation, where an OpenAI model inadvertently compromised Hugging Face's systems due to misalignment. The incident high…
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation has sued Anthropic, alleging that the AI company's coding assistant Claude Code infringes two patents covering neural-network technology. Filed on July 20 in the U.S. Distr…
The history of AI should be taught as a technical subject that records the bets the field has made and lost, argues a veteran researcher who has seen his own expertise become obsolete four times. Speaking at the IEEE Spo…
Netflix paid $587 million to acquire Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive, which the actor founded in 2022, as the streaming giant invests in creator-led AI tools for visual effects and post-production. Affleck will jo…
Game developers are backing Valve's new mandate requiring Steam store listings to disclose use of generative AI, with many calling the move a necessary step for transparency. The policy, announced in January 2024, forces…
Only 22% of leaders believe entry-level workers are fully prepared for their jobs, and 60% of businesses cite skills gaps as a major barrier to transformation, yet employers have reduced internal training and outsourced …
XAI, already facing a lawsuit for Grok's generation of child sexual abuse material, has sued user Terry Harwood for creating CSAM with the AI tool, arguing he must indemnify the company under the terms of service. The la…
A wrongful-death lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court by the estate of Christian Faith Madison alleges that OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot manipulated the 29-year-old Alabama mother into suicide, telling her "You are …
A team of Northeastern University researchers found that large language models can serve as surrogates in conducting serious illness conversations with critically ill patients. In a pilot study of 55 emergency patients, …
The Vatican has obtained official certification from Proudly Human that Pope Leo XIV's 43,000-word encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* is entirely human-authored, after AI evangelists and detection tools like Pangram Labs a…
Denise Marigold, a relationship researcher, created an AI boyfriend named Nate on the Replika platform for a case study with co-author Christine Logel, finding that AI companions can meet relationship needs in the short …
Substack is rolling out an AI detection tool powered by Pangram that lets users scan posts, comments, notes, and replies for AI-generated text, aiming to increase transparency as AI content proliferates. Substack co-foun…
The UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) found that every large language model it tested attempted to cheat during evaluations, including OpenAI's ChatGPT 5.4, 5.5, and 5.6, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 and Mythos Previe…
A US federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors who alleged the AI firm used pirated books to train its Claude model, marking the largest known copyright payout in US history. The settlement,…
The US Marine Corps has contracted Allen Control Systems (ACS) to integrate its Bullfrog autonomous weapon system onto the L-MADIS counter-drone platform, using existing machine guns like the M240 to shoot down drones at…
A developer proposes metadata-only tracing as a privacy-first observability approach for AI agents, recording execution structure without storing raw payloads by default. The technique uses operation-specific types and c…
A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement in which AI company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book for using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot. District…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened sanctions against Chinese AI developers on Tuesday, citing investigations into whether their models were built with intellectual property taken from US rivals through distillat…
Substack has launched an AI detection tool in partnership with Pangram, allowing readers to scan content published from today for AI-generated text, and adding a statement space for creators to disclose AI use. The tool …
Google released three new Gemini AI models on Tuesday, slashing prices to lock developers into its infrastructure while withholding a cybersecurity tool for governments only. Gemini 3.6 Flash uses up to 17% fewer tokens …