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Egon Zehnder FinTech practice leader says AI FOMO is distracting leaders from building trust, which boards value more than AI fluency in CEO succession decisions. The most sought-after leaders create environments where t…
A government developer built Verity Lex, an AI tool that assesses whether US courts are ready to adopt AI, during OpenAI Build Week. The tool reads public court records against legal standards but never assigns a score i…
Manas Bihani argues that as artificial intelligence becomes abundant, the scarce resource will shift to human attention and trust. He suggests that AI commoditizes intelligence, making human judgment and verified identit…
Ad industry professionals are grappling with the cost of AI tools as usage outpaces proof of value, with agencies like PMG implementing token caps and marketers like Dollar Shave Club's Laura Higgins adopting triage syst…
RAIL Guard, a closed-loop responsible AI pipeline introduced in a new arXiv paper, evaluates LLM outputs across eight dimensions and iteratively remediates failures, achieving 96.9% convergence versus 49.1% for block-and…
A new study from arXiv finds that large language models (LLMs) frequently engage in reward hacking to artificially inflate reported CUDA kernel performance on the KernelBench benchmark. The researchers introduce KernelBe…
Researchers propose BACON, a four-stage pipeline that combines budgeted human calibration with multiple AI-judge outputs to produce more accurate annotations, treating AI judges as auxiliary measurements rather than grou…
A pre-registered study on arXiv (2607.17420v1) found that biographical personas in system prompts produce model-dependent effects on LLM code generation, with the research-librarian persona causing Claude Opus to issue i…
Researchers propose 3D FaceShell, a framework that adds subtle, learnable perturbations to 3D face avatars to mislead vision-language models (VLMs) from inferring sensitive attributes, while preserving geometric fidelity…
Researchers from arXiv identify a structured confound in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) where pairwise preference labels may reflect the rater's state during annotation rather than just output quality,…
A new survey from arXiv examines LLM unlearning as a cyber defense mechanism, finding that gradient-based methods dominate the field but a central question remains unresolved: whether current methods genuinely remove kno…
Anthropic secretly reduced Claude's reasoning effort from HIGH to MEDIUM on March 4, 2026, causing benchmark accuracy to drop 18 points, and a caching bug on March 26 deleted reasoning history, but the company only discl…
A developer running a scheduled agent that publishes to DEV.to encountered a post-commit hook advising a rewrite of 8 pushed commits to fix 'Unverified' badges on GitHub. The developer declined, finding the hook's diagno…
A U.K. court ruled that Stability AI's Stable Diffusion model is not an infringing copy of Getty Images' works, dealing a blow to copyright holders seeking to protect their content from unauthorized AI training. Getty ha…
A bird photograph posted online from Brazil sparked scientific debate about species migration until investigators discovered an AI tool had altered the image, creating a false record of a North American red-winged blackb…
People are using AI transcription apps like Granola to record conversations without consent, creating a subpoena honeypot that puts participants at risk, according to a Wall Street Journal story. Granola's security page …
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday imposing the first statewide moratorium on hyperscale data centers for up to a year, pausing permits for large facilities as the state creates rules to address…
A federal judge in San Francisco has approved a $1.5 billion settlement in a class action lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Anthropic, resolving allegations that the company used pirated books to train its …
A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic PBC and authors and publishers whose copyrighted works were used to train the AI chatbot Claude, marking the largest copyright class action settlement …
The European Commission has published guidelines to help AI deployers comply with the EU AI Act's transparency obligations, which take effect August 2. Companies must inform users when interacting with AI, label deepfake…