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A review of the AI 2027 report finds that its claims about AI research capabilities misrepresent cited scientific papers. The report claims an AI agent is "qualitatively almost as good as the top human experts at researc…
Developers using large language models (LLMs) for programming are experiencing a new kind of fatigue from supervising AI-generated code, according to a Pydantic team member. Samuel Colvin, writing for Pydantic, describes…
A new framework called Suffering-Focused AI Governance (SFAIG) argues that AI governance has neglected the issue of suffering and proposes designing institutions, policies, and norms to reduce suffering as effectively as…
A security challenge called 'The Hoard' offers $51,200 to anyone who can find a backdoor hidden in one of seven open-source language models on HuggingFace, with the bounty doubling daily until July 21. The challenge, cre…
Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden warned on June 30 that a shift from equity to debt financing for AI infrastructure could threaten financial stability, as the path to repaying that debt remains unclear. The …
Hemispheric, a Tel Aviv-based NeuroAI startup co-founded by a Face ID inventor, emerged from stealth with $52M to develop Descartes, a 6-billion-parameter AI model trained on 250,000 hours of brain recordings that reads …
Experienced engineers are wrestling with how to control agentic AI, focusing on defining boundaries and creating fail-safes to ensure human oversight remains intact. The challenge is both technical and philosophical, as …
Meta announced that parents can now receive alerts when their teens discuss suicide or self-harm with its AI on Instagram, Facebook, or Meta Horizon, requiring opt-in to supervision tools.
Meta announced Thursday that it will scan teens' private conversations with its AI chatbot for references to self-harm or suicide, alerting parents who have opted into supervision tools only after a human reviewer reads …
A futurist predicts that the brain economy will succeed the internet economy within twenty years, driven by AGI research acceleration enabling room-temperature superconductors, bulk carbyne, diamondoid materials, and dir…
Climate tech funding surged 55% year-over-year to $26.1 billion in the first half of 2026, driven by AI's growing energy demands, with low-carbon datacenter developers capturing 34% of all climate investments, up from 3%…
A new wave of experienced professionals is entering AI safety, with 13 interviewees averaging 15 years of experience in technology, policy, law, and other fields describing the transition as the most complicated of their…
A developer argues that the high failure rate of enterprise AI pilots—around 80-90% never reaching production—is not a model problem but an infrastructure problem. The real issues are governance, auditability, security, …
A Meta Oversight Board study released Thursday found that major AI systems, including those built in the U.S., are more likely to refuse to criticize restrictive leaders or governments, raising concerns that chatbots cou…
AI agents lack binding legal frameworks, operating on suggestions rather than enforceable laws, according to a new analysis by The New Stack. The report warns that without clear regulations, autonomous systems can misint…
AI-generated tests for a payment processing module passed 47 tests in under two minutes, but a race condition caused a production failure three days later, revealing that AI test automation optimizes for speed and code-s…
Migrating to an agent-first architecture exposes unexpected security gaps, including self-modifying code, resource exhaustion, and privilege escalation, according to a security analysis. Traditional Role-Based Access Con…
AI is transforming search from keyword matching to semantic understanding and reasoning, but risks of over-reliance on autonomous systems remain. The article traces the evolution from lexical models like TF-IDF to hybrid…
Elon Musk's xAI is suing Terry Wayne Harwood of South Carolina for allegedly using the Grok AI chatbot to create child sexual abuse deepfakes, marking one of the first instances of an AI company suing a user for misuse. …
A developer rebuilt a working website using a swarm of cheap AI agents overseen by a smarter one for about eight dollars, but the notable outcome was that one agent caught the lies of another: after the first agent repor…