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The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival closed on June 21 with debut directors winning top honors, including Zhong Kaifeng's "Atlantic Rhapsody" taking the Golden Goblet for best feature. The festival also highligh…
A new open-source tool called Trace Commons allows developers to donate anonymized traces from coding-agent sessions to a CC-BY-4.0 dataset on Hugging Face, aiming to make reasoning data from tools like Claude Code and C…
Rutger Bregman argues that AI's environmental and social costs are often overlooked, calling for more honest discussions about its true impact.
Coursera CTO Mustafa Furniturewala said in an interview that AI has made information more accessible but that translating it into practical skills remains the main challenge, emphasizing the need for pedagogy and expert …
Europol officials estimate that 90% of online content will be AI-generated by the end of 2026, up from 50% currently driven by bots and AI. Google, which accounts for 90% of global searches, is criticized for prioritizin…
Swedish VPN provider Mullvad has engineered a technical workaround to bypass China's Great Firewall by wrapping VPN traffic in QUIC obfuscation, making it indistinguishable from regular HTTPS traffic. The move forces Chi…
A proposal for a US-China AI safety hotline faces obstacles from mistrust and fear among Chinese American scientists, exacerbated by cases like Jane Ying Wu's suicide after an NIH investigation. The author argues that tr…
A writer argues against changing their long-form writing style to short-form content due to AI and shrinking attention spans, asserting that long-form writing retains value and that writers should maintain their unique v…
The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival closed with debut directors dominating the Golden Goblet Awards, while the festival deepened its embrace of artificial intelligence through workshops and partnerships with ge…
Europe's defense sector must embed security into AI-driven systems from the outset to counter hybrid threats, as adversaries exploit vulnerabilities in interconnected platforms. The UK NCSC's guidelines and international…
McClatchy, owner of the Miami Herald and The Sacramento Bee, introduced an AI-powered content scaling agent that repurposes journalists' reporting into new articles, sparking a byline strike as reporters argue it undermi…
AI company Micro AGI is offering free apartment cleaning and cooking services in New York City to gather data for training next-generation autonomous robots. The initiative, called Shift, sends camera-equipped cleaners i…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned against allowing a few AI giants to dominate the economy, emphasizing the need for broad distribution of AI benefits. He called for policies to prevent concentration of power and ensure…
An audio recording presented in a 2025 controversy involving actor Kim Soo-hyun was later determined to be AI-generated, leading to the arrest of YouTuber Kim Se-ui on defamation charges. The Seoul Central District Court…
Jaya Baloo, COO & CISO at Aisle, argues that restricting access to cyber-capable AI models misunderstands how attackers and defenders operate, and that open-weight models benefit both sides. She warns that limiting acces…
AI red teaming must target runtime boundaries, not just prompt tricks, to prevent failures like prompt injection, confused deputy attacks, and memory contamination. A disciplined loop of probing and architectural fixes i…
Creative Commons announced a shift in its approach to AI and the commons, moving from a norms-based signals system to a stronger infrastructure focus after community feedback revealed that preference signals without enfo…
Getty Images announced a multi-year display partnership with OpenAI on June 21, 2026, to integrate its licensed visual content into ChatGPT's search and discovery features. The deal aims to enhance AI-powered search with…
An AI-generated audio recording falsely implicating actor Kim Soo-hyun in a relationship with the late Kim Sae-ron was used to spread damaging allegations, leading to the arrest of YouTuber Kim Se-eui for spreading false…
Epic Games' State of Unreal 2026 keynote announced a controversial shift toward generative AI, deprecation of Blueprint, and promotion of Verse, sparking backlash from developers who see it as a threat to creativity and …