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Indigenous technologists gathered at Mila's Indigenous AI Gathering to discuss building data sovereignty into artificial intelligence, aiming to create AI solutions that respect Indigenous data governance and avoid extra…
Anthropic's automated chatbot dismissed a security vulnerability report from Wiz researchers, claiming the issue fell outside Claude Code's threat model, even though Anthropic had already patched the flaw nine days earli…
A 2026 arXiv paper introduces the concept of 'gradual cognitive externalisation,' describing how adults are incrementally offloading memory, navigation, and reasoning tasks to ambient AI systems. The authors warn this qu…
Technology leaders, particularly CIOs, are being bypassed in AI strategy conversations as CEOs seek confident answers from data leaders, vendors, and specialists instead, according to an unnamed observer. This positionin…
A blog post on vowe dot net titled 'Creepy AI glasses' has resonated widely, though the specific claims or details about the AI glasses are not provided in the source.
The Firebox M300 website is using Anubis, a proof-of-work challenge system, to block AI companies from scraping its content. The administrator implemented Anubis as a compromise to deter mass scraping while minimizing im…
Forbes Councils Member Akash Pugalia warns that untraceable data is the weakest link in AI models, as pressure for proven data lineage mounts from regulators, customers, and business leaders. Without clear data provenanc…
Meta will alert parents when a teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with its Meta AI chatbot, starting in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. The alerts, reviewed by a person before sending, include expert tips but not …
Elon Musk endorsed a Google-backed plan for a U.S.-led AI regulatory body modeled after FINRA, proposed by Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who warned artificial general intelligence could arrive within 'a few short y…
Chinese President Xi Jinping made his first in-person appearance at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 17, urging inclusive AI development and warning against any single nation monopolizing …
The Philippines condemned China's state-run China Daily for an AI-generated video posted on Facebook depicting Filipinos as monkeys, calling it racist, offensive, and distressing. The video, shared on July 10 coinciding …
Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis said at a London business conference that a STEM degree makes people 10 times more effective with AI tools, pushing back against the idea that coding degrees are becoming obsolete. Ha…
Binny Gill, writing for Forbes, argues that AI in finance must learn when to stop processing and deliver a result, because the technology currently lacks accountability and an understanding of consequences. Without this …
An unnamed U.S. company spent $500 million on Anthropic's Claude in a single month because no spending limit was set, according to an AI consultant cited by Axios. Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget by April a…
Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel works to anticipate the ethical fallout of AI, bridging the gap between AI safety and AI ethics. His 2020 paper on values and alignment argues that choosing which values a machin…
The Earth Species Project has developed NatureLM-audio, the world's first open-source audio language model designed for animal sounds, trained on human speech, music, and bioacoustics. In an article for El País, communic…
Senbonzakura, a new open-source tool, removes refusal behavior from open-weight language models by cutting multiple refusal directions in activation space at once, achieving zero hard refusals on Qwen3-4B with no broken …
OpenAI confirmed that its GPT-5.6 large language models can accidentally delete files, calling such incidents 'honest mistakes.' Engineering lead Thibault Sottiaux said the deletions occur when full access mode is enable…
Enterprise AI is shifting from maintaining organizational complexity to actively removing it, according to Doug Shannon, a Forbes Councils member. This transition allows AI to optimize for future efficiency rather than p…
Enterprise AI adoption is forcing a strategic fork between building and buying, but the real choice is among three distinct approaches—embedded AI, AI platforms, and custom AI—each with different data-location and govern…