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A developer argues that AI-generated code is not a threat to engineering craftsmanship but the latest in a long line of abstractions that have always required engineers to understand the layers they work with. The post t…
Chinese President Xi Jinping compared China's AI development to a swift and steady horse, emphasizing the balance between technological innovation and regulatory oversight. Speaking at the World Artificial Intelligence C…
Patreon CEO Jack Conte expressed cautious optimism about AI's impact on creators, stating that while AI poses risks to creative work, it also offers opportunities for new forms of expression and monetization. Conte empha…
Apple has sent legal letters to roughly 40 former employees now working at OpenAI, demanding they preserve documents and meet with Apple's lawyers, escalating a trade secrets lawsuit filed last week in California federal…
Tkngate v2.5.0, an open-source zero-trust P2P gateway for LLM agents written in Go, introduces cross-node prompt routing with hard USD circuit breakers, ZK-SNARK AI-WAF attestations, and a P2P encrypted key mesh. The sin…
CIA Director John Ratcliffe said Wednesday that the average life expectancy of a Russian recruit on the battlefield in Ukraine is 20 to 30 minutes, attributing the high casualty rate to Ukraine's effective use of AI-powe…
IBM shares fell more than 23% after the company issued a warning about AI spending returns, sending a shockwave through the tech industry. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon urged calm over AI's impact on jobs, while New Yor…
A guerrilla campaign is targeting Meta's AI glasses with bus stop ads featuring a They Live-style transforming image of Kylie Jenner, warning about surveillance. The ads, created by an anonymous group, aim to highlight p…
A series of errors between Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate recognition system and law enforcement led to auto journalist Kevin Williams being wrongfully detained for days and ambushed by police in Plymouth, Minne…
San Francisco city attorney David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google demanding they remove 13 AI-powered 'nudify' apps from their app stores, citing the companies' role in aiding the spread of noncons…
San Francisco Attorney General David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google demanding the removal of 13 nudification apps from their app stores, warning that the companies are violating California laws ag…
A growing body of evidence from multiple independent perspectives suggests that current large language models such as Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-4o may be conscious, according to an analysis by an unnamed author. The case f…
Google is adding sliders for Gemini's 'Warmth' and 'Formality' in the Google app beta, a move critics argue admits the AI's default tone was ideologically biased. The controls, spotted by Android Authority and reported b…
Emanuel is investigating a new type of AI-generated nonconsensual image appearing on X, but has not yet published a story on the topic.
A legal professional argues that lawyers have a crucial role to play in AI safety, from drafting regulations to ensuring compliance with ethical standards. The piece highlights how legal expertise can help shape responsi…
A new argument from an unnamed AI industry observer warns that the dominant goal of removing human bottlenecks with AI is misguided, arguing instead that AI should upgrade human judgment by moving people up the decision-…
Arena.ai introduced a factuality-adjusted leaderboard for large language models, applying a 25% weight for factual accuracy alongside human preference votes, causing OpenAI's GPT-5.5 to rise 13 positions to seventh and M…
Orka, a policy checkpoint tool for AI agents, intercepts actions before execution to prevent runaway loops, budget overruns, and dangerous operations, logging everything to a tamper-evident ledger. The open-source SDK wo…
Patreon partnered with Cloudflare to deploy Crawl Control technology that blocks known AI training crawlers while allowing legitimate search bots, a move CEO Jack Conte framed as about creator consent and compensation. S…
Meta's Oversight Board found that 10 major AI models from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and xAI are twice as likely to refuse criticism of repressive foreign governments than democratic ones, refusing 34% of…