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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…
Alex Southmayd launched Bloomy (YC S26), an AI-powered mastery-learning platform for K-12 students that provides an AI tutor alongside adaptive curriculum in Math, English Language Arts, and Writing. The platform diagnos…
Scientists warn that wildlife photographers' use of AI editing tools to enhance bird photos could compromise the accuracy of bird research data.
A San Francisco restaurant faced angry backlash after using AI-generated images for its menu, with customers criticizing the move as inauthentic and a disservice to the culinary experience.
Apple Intelligence, Apple's built-in generative AI system, is enabled by default on compatible iPhones, iPads, and Macs, but users can turn it off via a Settings toggle or Screen Time restrictions for privacy or control.…
Scott Galloway argues that AI's reputation is declining despite rising usage, blaming Washington more than any single CEO. He also shares advice for overcoming public-speaking anxiety and acknowledges reversing his posit…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, on July 16th, with open weights to follow on July 27th. The model ranks #2 on the Vals AI index and #3 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligenc…
The GNOME project is reducing its security disclosure window from 90 days to 30 days starting next month due to an influx of AI/LLM-generated security reports, according to Red Hat's Michael Catanzaro, who leads GNOME se…
Michael Catanzaro, who has managed GNOME security issue tracking since November 2020, announced he will reduce the disclosure deadline from 90 days to 30 days for issues reported on or after August 1 due to an increase i…
RB Labs, a Geneva start-up, debuted Robert the Robot at the AI for Good Global Summit in July, a face-swapping humanoid that displays real-time emotions and can morph its face into Donald Trump, Barack Obama, or Mark Zuc…
AXA announced the large-scale deployment of Microsoft 365 Copilot to its employees globally, reinforcing its AI workplace strategy three years after launching Secure GPT. The rollout will embed AI assistance into Microso…
Clay engineer Alex Komoroske published an internal policy on acceptable AI writing use, arguing that as of 2026, AI models cannot produce lossless transformations of natural-language text and that unedited AI output risk…
A security practitioner has coined the term 'interstitial vulnerabilities' to describe security flaws that emerge in the space between software components, where traditional scanning tools like SAST and DAST fail to dete…
Bill Gurley, a prominent venture capitalist, argues in a Washington Post op-ed that open models for AI were inevitable and beneficial for competition, countering concerns from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI about sa…
A new survey from Americans on AI, based on pooled data from June 25-30 and July 9-13, finds that 66% of Americans are concerned about AI, but views on its harms and benefits split sharply by education level. College gra…
Computer scientist Jaron Lanier argues that the term 'artificial intelligence' is misleading and dangerous, urging people to view technologies like GPT-4 as tools rather than creatures. Lanier, writing in The New Yorker,…
The MIRI communications team launched AI StopWatch in May after a month of closed beta testing, an experimental newsroom designed to track and analyze the conflicting media frames surrounding artificial intelligence. The…
Brett Harrison, founder and CEO of Architect Financial Technologies and former FTX US president, argues that large language models are fundamentally unsuited for building core quantitative trading systems because financi…