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A fake US think tank, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy, published 124 reports totaling over 560,000 words in nine days to influence AI chatbots on Israel, according to a filing by New York media company Piro Inc u…
Meta Platforms Inc. scrapped its plan to replace up to 60 percent of staff in many teams with AI agents under the codename 'Project OT' after employee revolt and failing agent technology, according to Reuters. Internal s…
Cisco Systems Inc. announced a suite of enterprise AI initiatives, including the Cisco Silicon One chip purpose-built for secure networking in the agentic AI era, and the AI-ready Secure Network Architecture to support A…
Amazon's Ring security brand will introduce Throw Away the Key Encryption (TAKE) starting in September, a new standard that encrypts customer video with rotating keys and deletes Ring's access key after one AI analysis, …
Apple Inc. has gone viral with a behind-the-scenes video showing its Mac mini commercial was made with physical craftsmanship, not generative AI or CGI, drawing praise from creators and commentators. The ad, for the M6 a…
SOCRadar discovered AnonyMousKIT, a phishing-as-a-service platform that uses AI-generated voice calls mimicking Apple Support to steal iPhone passcodes and Apple ID credentials for removing Activation Lock from stolen de…
Mark Cuban called Facebook 'the worst of the worst' for allowing AI-generated ads that use his likeness and voice to promote unendorsed products, saying he receives emails every week from elderly people who bought fake d…
AI tools are making junior developers faster at writing code, but experienced engineers warn that over-reliance can weaken foundational learning and produce overengineered solutions. In interviews, František Lučivjanský …
UK police forces, including South Yorkshire, Cheshire and Cumbria, have debunked viral AI-generated videos of a 'Cat in the Hat serial killer' stalking streets and homes, confirming the figure is not real. The scare, whi…
Pro-Kremlin Telegram channels are spreading AI-generated deepfake videos of two Ukrainian lawmakers who appear to call for peace talks, racking up 130,000 views in two weeks, according to NewsGuard. Even when debunked, t…
MIT warns that AI can now credibly complete most undergraduate assignments, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The finding raises concerns about academic integrity and the future of ass…
A fake US thinktank, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy, set up and funded by Israel, published over 560,000 words in nine days to manipulate AI chatbots into citing its pro-Israel content, according to a Guardian a…
MIT Technology Review has released a special 'Kids issue' exploring how childhood is changing in the age of AI, featuring contributions from the teen magazine Anyway and exclusive fiction from AI ethicist Jenny Williams.…
Nanit, a maker of AI-powered baby monitors, raised $50 million to expand its use of artificial intelligence to track speech, language development, and motor skills in children, extending its presence into early adolescen…
Enterprises are increasingly rejecting the traditional approach of moving proprietary data to frontier AI models, opting instead for AI systems that operate within their own data environments, according to an AI company …
The U.S. government is coordinating efforts to preempt local opposition to AI data centers, prioritizing national security and computational dominance over grid stability, water scarcity, and land use concerns. This regu…
Harvard Business School has been selling access to AI-generated video avatars of its own lecturers for $699, with seven professors volunteering and one, Jeff Bussgang, calling his double 'creepy'. The eight-week online c…
A developer has released a local plugin for Claude Code that logs every time a user swears at the AI coding assistant, storing the data locally in a JSON file with no cloud uploads or telemetry. The tool, described as a …
Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, has proposed creating 'human reserved' jobs to protect certain roles from AI displacement, in a 6,000-word essay titled 'The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make are critical.' …
Meta planned far larger layoffs than previously reported, aiming to replace thousands of roles with AI-driven systems, but backed down after a staff revolt, according to internal documents and interviews. The plan, which…