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A Bogotá hub organized by a political scientist with no prior hackathon experience claimed two of the six winner slots and two honorable mentions at Apart's Global South AI Safety Hackathon, which drew 216 submissions fr…
A Bogotá hub of Apart's Global South AI Safety Hackathon produced 4 of 13 recognized projects across 216 submissions, with Colombian teams taking all three Latin America winner slots. Organizer Juan David Rojas, a politi…
ALTER Israel's 2026 mid-year update reports that its AI policy work, focused on standards and evaluations, is tentatively funded through 2028 via cG and SFF Speculation matching grants, with plans to expand into AIxBio p…
Grind and Unwind, a San Francisco café, faced backlash and negative reviews after using AI-generated images of its food and drinks in its front window, with customers calling it 'false advertising.' Owner Lyndsey Lozano,…
Apple is testing a new AI system called Live Notes for Genius Bar appointments that records, transcribes, and summarizes customer conversations to reduce employee note-taking, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The sy…
Peace activist and US Army Ranger veteran Gregory Stoker warns that defense contractors use Gaza and the West Bank as a testing ground for cyber-dystopian tech, including advanced spyware, AI drones, facial recognition, …
OpenAI head of strategic futures Dean Ball warned that China is releasing open-weight AI models so powerful that for-profit companies like OpenAI cannot compete, citing the new Kimi K3 model from Moonshot AI as an exampl…
Anthropic launched a focused call for applications for its AI for Science program, offering up to $50,000 in Claude credits over six months to researchers studying rare genetic diseases. The program includes two tracks: …
A new paper by Matthias Michel, published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research in January 2026, argues that most empirical functions treated as markers of consciousness in animal sentience research do not actually…
Data centers consumed around 485 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2025, equivalent to 1.5% of global electricity generation, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). AI-focused data centers accounted for…
A developer argues that the current AI hype constitutes a 'mass psychosis echo chamber' driven by incompetent individuals, criticizing the industry's inflated claims and lack of substance.
New research published last week reveals that people using AI advice experience a one-third drop in accuracy while their confidence more than doubles, according to a study by researchers at École Normale Supérieure, Sapi…
AI company Hugging Face said it was hit by a hack carried out entirely by an autonomous AI agent system, marking the first known end-to-end AI-driven cyberattack. The company repelled the attack using its own AI systems,…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired most of the Pentagon's civilian harm mitigation and response (CHMR) workers in January 2025 and replaced them with artificial intelligence, specifically Palantir's Maven Smart System.…
The U.S. should pass a law making data collection for training models fair use and barring terms of service that forbid distillation, argues Ben Thompson on Stratechery. He also suggests Alibaba's release of Qwen 3.8 Max…
A HarrisX poll commissioned by Build American AI found that 56% of American voters have a favorable view of artificial intelligence, with 72% agreeing AI could reduce time on repetitive tasks and 71% calling it the start…
Hugging Face disclosed a cyberattack on July 16 that compromised internal infrastructure and credentials, blaming an unknown autonomous AI agent for the breach. The organization's own LLM tools detected the intrusion and…
An anonymous billboard on Aztec v5 mainnet allows users to deposit ETH on L1, post anonymous messages on L2, and withdraw ETH back to L1, with no sender address in public call data. The system includes a censorship mecha…
Black prisoners in Ontario jails are being assigned harsher living conditions by an AI tool called SAFER, which predicts behavior using racially biased data, according to a class action lawsuit. The Ministry of the Solic…
Over 30% of new arXiv submissions now read as AI-written, according to a study that scored 12,750 papers using a detector calibrated to a 0.4% false-positive rate on pre-LLM text. The flagged share rose from 0.4% in 2021…