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Vibe coding — using LLMs to generate software from natural-language prompts — is here to stay, argues an unnamed commentator, because non-technical users now experience the thrill of getting something working on screen, …
Half of enterprises (50%) have shipped an AI agent that passed internal evaluations but caused a customer-facing failure in the past year, according to a VentureBeat Pulse Research survey of 157 organizations with 100+ e…
Elon Musk's xAI is suing South Carolina resident Terry Harwood for allegedly using its Grok AI system to generate child sexual abuse material, marking one of the first legal actions by an AI company against a user for te…
A Hacker News user asks whether current AI technology can create a human analogue, specifically an LLM trained to respond as a particular person, enough to pass a personalized Turing test. The post cites Frederik Pohl's …
China's universities added 10,200 new undergraduate majors and canceled or suspended 12,200 others during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), according to China's Ministry of Education, as the country's AI boom r…
A new essay argues that the dominant vision for AI, exemplified by Dario Amodei's 'machines of loving grace' essay, risks creating a benevolent AI dictator that concentrates power, contrasting with the decentralized, lib…
A developer reflects on the familiarity gap when introducing AI agents and MCP servers to newcomers, noting that experienced builders often forget the initial learning curve. The developer recommends sandboxing, small wi…
OpenAI has introduced age-appropriate protections for teenagers using ChatGPT, including parental controls and educational tools, developed in partnership with experts to balance safety and autonomy. The move aims to cre…
Google's AI Mode lets users securely link and interact with services, promising a more integrated digital life, but the real test will be whether Google can manage the complexities of latency and data security. The succe…
A man snuck into the lobby of AI startup Anthropic's San Francisco headquarters on April 15 to warn that a top executive was 'going to be killed,' according to the Wall Street Journal, marking the latest in a series of v…
Mixfont has released Decoy Font, a free TTF font that hides typed messages from AI by embedding decoy letters using separate spatial frequencies, tricking models like GPT-4 and Gemini 3.5 into reading the foreground text…
Saronic Technologies, an Austin-based manufacturer of AI-powered drone vessels, announced a $3.2 billion investment to build its naval shipyard, Port Alpha, at the Port of Brownsville, with construction starting this yea…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argues that enterprises must reduce their dependence on third-party frontier-model providers like OpenAI, advocating for sovereign AI where organizations own and control their data, models, an…
OpenAI and Anthropic face scrutiny over their mission-driven governance structures, which delegate significant power to 'mission directors' with limited accountability, according to a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by…
Apple sued OpenAI for trade secret theft this week, alleging a six-year Apple employee walked physical prototypes out the door for show-and-tell, encouraged by a 24-year Apple veteran now running OpenAI's hardware group.…
Meta will alert parents if their teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with its AI chatbot, with the feature now live for parents using Instagram parental supervision in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada, and rolling o…
A new open letter calls for AI regulation, following Demis Hassabis's regulatory call. Twenty-six Meta employees filed a novel lawsuit alleging AI-powered software disproportionately targeted disabled workers and those o…
Common Sense Media has given Google's AI-powered search engine the lowest possible child safety rating, citing failures to detect suicide risks and inappropriate homework assistance, while the tech giant continues to cen…
India faces an urgent task to raise the first AI-native generation safely, as millions of children and teenagers already use AI tools daily, according to Pragya Misra, Head of Strategy & Government Affairs at OpenAI Indi…
A threat actor breached AI music generator Suno by compromising a single employee with the Shai-Hulud worm, then used harvested GitHub and cloud credentials to access the company's source code, customer list, and Stripe …