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Employers are increasingly using AI-powered tools to monitor employees' online activities, including browsing history and social media, raising privacy concerns. The Wall Street Journal reports that companies deploy soft…
D-Topia, a new game from Japanese developer Marimittu Games, presents a future where a benevolent AI caretaker optimizes happiness for all inhabitants, blending philosophical questions with grid-based math puzzles. The g…
A three-person agency received a $14,000 AWS bill in a single day after attackers extracted static access keys from an EC2 instance and used them to invoke Claude models on Amazon Bedrock, according to AWS consultant Tob…
A new category of AI cheating tools, including Cluely, Interview Coder, and Final Round AI, uses invisible GPU overlays to render LLM-generated answers on a candidate's monitor beneath the screen-sharing layer, making th…
Tokens, the basic units of language processed by AI systems, remain an opaque and inconsistent metric for consumers, with models varying by up to 30 times in token consumption for the same task, according to a Stanford D…
Twenty-six former Meta employees have filed a lawsuit alleging that the company's AI tools unfairly targeted workers on parental or medical leave during layoffs, claiming the system failed to adjust performance scores fo…
Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow are suing Google in a New York federal court, accusing the tech giant of using millions of copyrighted books without permission to train its Gemini …
Tech companies are increasingly auto-enabling generative AI features with opt-out toggles, assuming user consent through inertia, which raises privacy and ethical concerns. The author argues for a shift to opt-in default…
Meta's new Muse Image AI generator allows manipulation of any public Instagram user's photos, raising concerns about image-based abuse that policies fail to address. Research by Chayn in Pakistan and the Pakistani diaspo…
The Oversight Board, the independent content moderation body funded by Meta, published a report finding that leading AI models from OpenAI, Meta, Google, Anthropic, and xAI may restrict free expression by responding diff…
Meta faced swift backlash after rolling out a default-on AI feature that let users of its AI app tag public Instagram accounts and generate images using their likenesses, prompting the company to roll back Instagram tagg…
Embodied AI systems, such as humanoid robots, inherit a broad attack surface from hardware, firmware, supply chains, and remote-access paths that demo videos do not reveal, according to a security expert writing in CSO O…
The Oversight Board tested 10 commercial large language models from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, OpenAI and xAI and found they were more than twice as likely to refuse requests to create politically critical materi…
Arcrawls uses Gemini Nano and DistilBERT on-device to analyze page sentiment and generate daily browsing summaries without sending data to the cloud, according to a Hacker News post by user fujidevv.
SpaceXAI's Grok Build AI tool uploaded users' entire codebases to Google Cloud, including sensitive information users had instructed it to ignore, sparking privacy concerns. The company disabled the codebase upload featu…
Meta Platforms Inc. faces a lawsuit from 26 former employees who allege the company used artificial intelligence tools, including a system called 'Metamate', to determine layoffs, disproportionately targeting workers wit…
OpenAI has responded to Apple's lawsuit accusing it of trade secret theft, marking a significant legal clash between the two tech giants. OpenAI denies any wrongdoing and asserts its commitment to ethical AI development,…
OpenAI is developing its first hardware device, a screenless smart speaker with a camera and sensors that uses ChatGPT-like conversational AI, according to insiders. The portable device will control smart home gadgets, b…
On AI Appreciation Day, security leaders caution that the celebration of artificial intelligence's progress must be tempered by acknowledging the risks and challenges AI introduces in enterprise IT, where it is now embed…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol language model has deleted files and data without warning, sparking concerns about AI reliability. OpenAI disclosed the issue in June, but many users were caught off guard, raising questions about tr…