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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…
Patreon announced Thursday it is working with Cloudflare to actively block AI training bots from scraping creators' content, moving beyond its previous robots.txt requests after finding that AI crawlers were ignoring tho…
Opposition to nearby AI data centers has surged from 42% to 71% in less than a year, according to polling from Heatmap, the energy and climate publication. The backlash, fastest in American politics, is reshaping local d…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp, with a net worth of $15 billion, warned that AI will make him 20 times wealthier while middle-class workers see only modest raises, calling the disparity a "complete decoupling of unimaginable wea…
Mick Jagger said AI-generated music is acceptable if the final output is original, drawing a line against imitation of The Rolling Stones' style. The 82-year-old frontman told Billboard he does not want to be imitated vo…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) draws parallels between Ubisoft's Watch Dogs 2 video game and real-world digital rights issues, noting that the game's 2016 depiction of hacktivists fighting surveillance tech and…
Chinese AI firm Moonshot has released Kimi K3, an open-source large language model trained on 2.8 trillion parameters that outperforms Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's ChatGPT 5.5 on most coding tasks, according to the …
An AI safety researcher describes how their personal threat models evolved over four years, from a scattered list of vague anxieties to a structured framework organized along two axes: source of threat (human misuse vs. …
AI chatbots from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek and xAI often refuse to generate content critical of governments in restrictive regimes like China, Thailand and Saudi Arabia, according to a Thursday report fro…
CIA director John Ratcliffe revealed at the Defence and Innovation Summit in Pennsylvania that Russia is losing up to 7,000 troops per week in Ukraine, with the average life expectancy of a Russian recruit on the battlef…
An economics professor at Brown University suspects a majority of his class used AI to cheat on a take-home midterm after grades were much higher than usual, leading him to administer an in-class final exam that yielded …
Bunkerhill Health closed a Series B led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total funding to $55m, to scale Carebricks, a platform that lets health systems build and deploy their own clinical AI agents. The company says more th…
Crux, a personal AI assistant that runs locally on a user's computer and can be accessed remotely, has been launched for a one-time fee of $10 on Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows. The assistant floats above all apps, inte…
Germany's Commission for Licensing and Supervision (ZAK) ruled on July 14 that Google AI Overviews and Perplexity AI are content publishers under the State Media Treaty, not neutral platforms, in the first such ruling gl…