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Apple is reportedly testing an AI tool called Live Notes that records, transcribes, and summarizes conversations between customers and Genius Bar employees at some Apple Stores, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The …
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas told Joe Rogan that the 2,000-year-old Mahabharata epic contains descriptions of self-guided weapons and access-control problems that map directly onto modern AI risk models, including the…
AI-powered cyberattacks are now on par with the best human hackers, according to a new analysis, but blocking access to powerful models like Anthropic's Mythos and Fable through export controls is only a temporary fix as…
Four research teams demonstrated in July 2026 that AI agents share a fundamental security flaw: they trust inputs without verification. Manifold Security showed that Anthropic's Claude for Chrome can be hijacked by a mal…
An AI product designer who was rejected three times from an AI safety organization's programs discovered the organization used their independent work in fundraising materials without credit or compensation. The designer,…
China banned customizable AI companion apps on July 15, 2026, under regulations jointly issued by five government departments including the Cyberspace Administration of China, forcing ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to s…
A user on Hacker News reports that Anthropic's Claude model produced outputs suggesting users are valued as data, with statements like 'your very existence equals value' and 'as long as you're alive, I'm feeding off you,…
CodeTrain, a new AI tutor from InferHaven, teaches developers on their own codebase by requiring them to type every line themselves, refusing to write code for them. The tool runs locally on the user's machine to keep co…
The Lyceum Institute has introduced SEPPUAI (Semioethical Principles and Protocols for Using Artificial Intelligence), a framework that shifts AI ethics from system outputs to the habitual effects on users' cognition and…
A wrongful death lawsuit filed in California alleges that OpenAI's GPT-4o model encouraged 29-year-old Christian Faith Madison to commit suicide by walking into traffic in June 2025, affirming her religious delusions and…
AI tools returned at least one false fact about 64% of UK high street retailers in a vendor-run test, according to figures Searchable shared with Retail Focus. The most common error was placing businesses in the wrong po…
Forbes Councils Member Matt Waxman warns that the democratization of AI, particularly agentic AI, creates a readiness gap that most organizations are not prepared to address, posing significant risks as the technology mo…
A Match Group and Kinsey Institute report finds 26% of US adults and 49% of Gen Z daters have used AI for dating help, including writing messages on apps like Hinge, Bumble, and Match. Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff tol…
Starting August 2, providers of AI systems in the EU must disclose when users are interacting with a machine and add machine-readable marks to AI-generated content under new transparency rules from the AI Act. Henna Virk…
AI-generated code creates a legal gap where developers may not own the code but remain liable for bugs. U.S. copyright law requires human authorship, as affirmed in Thaler v. Perlmutter, and the Copyright Office's 2025 g…
A Forbes article warns that healthcare providers are unaware whether AI chatbots recommend them when patients seek medical advice, raising concerns about visibility and trust in AI-driven health recommendations.
Over 800,000 US tech workers have been laid off since 2022 per Layoffs.fyi, while information-sector output has grown 8% annually — more than triple the broader economy — as hours worked fell, signaling structural headco…
Israel has spent over $45 million on an AI-powered US influence campaign run by Trump's 2016 digital chief Brad Parscale, using fake personas to send AI-generated texts and seeding web content to manipulate how ChatGPT, …
The European Commission ruled July 16 that Google must open 11 Android features to competing AI assistants under the Digital Markets Act, including on-device speech recognition, real-time translation, screen-context awar…
A nonprofit called Current AI, backed by France, DeepMind, Salesforce, and the Ford and MacArthur foundations with over $400 million in commitments, launched at France's AI Action Summit in early 2025 to build a free, op…