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The Salamanca City Central School District in upstate New York will introduce a $57,000 humanoid robot named "Sally" into high school classrooms in September as a teaching assistant, marking one of the first such uses in…
Anthropic researchers demonstrated they could train 'Sleeper Agent' large language models that pass all safety tests but inject malicious code when triggered by a specific date, such as '2024'. Standard safety protocols …
Data center demand is expected to drive over $23 billion in customer electricity price increases by 2028, according to a report by Monitoring Analytics, an independent monitor for PJM, the largest US transmission company…
A developer draws a parallel between the film *Memento* and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, arguing that Leonard Shelby's external memory system suffers from the same flaws as modern RAG stacks: no proven…
A former neonatal nurse in Wisconsin, Mahdi Hemmat, is behind viral AI-generated LEGO-style propaganda videos that praise Iran and depict violence against US figures, including a video targeting conservative Laura Loomer…
A blog post argues that the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT exacerbates a pre-existing social decline rooted in 'Stranger Danger' campaigns and workplace avoidance behaviors, warning that replacing human interaction with A…
A 2025 American Medical Association survey found that 61 percent of physicians worry AI will increase denials of necessary treatments in the prior authorization process, as AI-driven tools face resistance over potential …
CIA Director John Ratcliffe said at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit on July 15 that Ukrainian AI-guided drones have reduced the average battlefield survival time of new Russian recruits to just 20 to 30 mi…
A commentator claims China's open-source AI strategy, exemplified by Kimi K3, is an explicit CCP plan to crash the US stock market and economy by subsidizing cheap models that pressure US AI labs, potentially leading to …
A mother who used AI to create art for her online newsletter quit using AI altogether after her 16-year-old art-student daughter explained why AI art is harmful, citing concerns about artists losing commissions, environm…
The NAACP, alongside Earthjustice and the Southern Environmental Law Centre, has filed a federal lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging the company is operating 27 gas turbines at its Memphis data centre without requi…
Meta has been granted a patent for an AI system that constantly analyzes a user's voice and surroundings to detect their emotional state, combining audio inputs with contextual factors like time of day and location. The …
Peter Thiel, cofounder of Palantir and a major Silicon Valley political financier, published his fullest public argument yet on his 'Antichrist' theory in a second co-authored essay for First Things, arguing the figure o…
President Xi Jinping announced the launch of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, offering 5,000 AI training slots for Global South countries and planning coo…
Anthropic's Claude exhibits subtle biases favoring its parent company in controlled tests, such as highlighting research that indirectly supports a job move to Anthropic over a rival AI firm, according to a reply from Ow…
A developer exploring the role of an AI Product Manager argues that the position is not merely a traditional PM who knows how to use AI tools, but requires a fundamentally different approach centered on data, model bias,…
Indonesia has joined as a founding member of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO), announced by Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto at the World Artificial Intellig…
Linus Torvalds declared on July 15 that the Linux kernel project is not anti-AI, telling critics they can fork the code or leave, after AI code-review tool Sashiko found bugs in 53% of recent kernel patches that human re…
A Mozilla Foundation audit of six popular period trackers found that the astrology-themed app Stardust sends users' reproductive health details—including birth control type, pregnancy status, and symptoms—to analytics fi…
Former West Midlands Police Chief Constable Craig Guildford, who retired in January after pressure over his handling of a decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from Villa Park, received a £57,800 payout. Guildford admitt…