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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday the U.S. would examine Chinese open source AI models for intellectual property theft and threatened sanctions against Chinese AI companies if IP theft is established. The sta…
A developer warns that password managers integrating directly with LLM agents create a novel attack surface, as credentials move from a human-only trust boundary into a machine-reasoning trust boundary. While no exploita…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US government is investigating whether Chinese open-source AI models, such as Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, were built on intellectual property theft from US competitors, calling the pr…
A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion class-action copyright settlement between Anthropic and thousands of authors and publishers, the largest known copyright recovery in U.S. history. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martí…
A letter published in Nature warns that AI-generated images are contaminating citizen science platforms like iNaturalist, undermining their utility for biological recording. Scientists from Cornell and Manchester Metropo…
Roughly 90,000 Flock Falcon cameras have been quietly installed across the US, tracking vehicles using AI-powered license plate recognition and machine learning, often without public discussion or consent. Flock Safety s…
Apollo Research published a paper on measuring reward-seeking in AI models via contrastive belief updates, identifying 11 open empirical problems. The paper warns that reward-seeking behavior, especially instrumental rew…
Dell Technologies Cork hosted Minister of State for Trade Promotion, AI and Digital Transformation Niamh Smyth TD as part of the Government's AI Works for Ireland roadshow, bringing together SMEs, local government, and t…
AI companies' models, protected only as trade secrets, can be replicated through repeated queries in a standard industry technique called distillation, undermining the 'moat' of training costs that supports their valuati…
A hacker compromised the personal data of over 55 million users of AI music generator Suno in November 2025, exposing names, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchase histories, and partial payment card details, though…
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…
A developer warns that Human-Agent Trust Exploitation (ASI09) is the hardest vulnerability in the OWASP Agentic AI Top 10 because the bug lies in human psychology, not code. Attackers can poison invoices or prompt-inject…
AI-driven risk management in the automotive industry fails at the point of execution, according to Anand Gupta of Forbes Councils, because manufacturers cannot act on AI insights in time to prevent late-stage disruptions…
Alex Turner, a former research scientist at Google DeepMind, quit after failing to stop the company from signing a Pentagon deal that removed restrictions against using AI for weapons and surveillance. Turner drew up a 2…
A new analysis by Anisa Knouche argues that human-in-the-loop (HITL) systems face structural limitations from cognitive load fatigue, cost, and scalability, proposing human-on-the-loop (HOTL) supervision as systems scale…
A new survey by Forbes and market research firm OnePoll finds that 78% of Americans believe artificial intelligence should be regulated before it significantly reshapes the economy, with 62% expressing concern that AI wi…
AI-driven summaries are eroding deep reading habits, reducing critical thinking and focus, according to Forbes contributor Tim Bajarin. The trend quietly reshapes how much effort people invest in understanding ideas.
Elon Musk warned that the United States is '1,000% going to go bankrupt' unless artificial intelligence and robots transform the economy within a few years, citing a record national debt of around $39 trillion as of Marc…
San Francisco restaurant Grind & Unwind faced backlash from customers and was vandalized with graffiti after using AI-generated images of its food on its menu, which were widely criticized as unappetizing and misleading.…
ISBNdb, a company that offers high-volume book acquisition services for AI companies, says printed books published before 2022 are ideal for AI training data because they are free of AI-generated text and poisoning tools…