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MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training released its final report in January 2026, assessing current uses of generative AI by instructors and students and proposing an AI use policy …
Dartmouth will host the AI at 70 conference from Oct. 29-31, convening leaders from academia, industry, government, and the arts under the theme 'AI at 70: What Must Remain Human?' to discuss human judgment, accountabili…
A developer's blog post details the engineering challenges of moving AI agents from demo to production, emphasizing that LLM non-determinism, tool orchestration, context management, evaluation, compliance, and cost are t…
MIT President Sally Kornbluth announced that generative AI poses a watershed moment for the institute and all of higher education, urging the community to read the final report from the Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teac…
CTGT founder and CEO Cyril Gorlla found that the anonymous coding model Ox Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on August 20 without a named developer, heavily suppresses answers about seven topics tied to Chinese domesti…
Anthropic has added persistent memory to Claude Cowork, enabling the AI assistant to retain context from previous conversations and pick up where users left off without re-prompting. The memory feature is on by default, …
Harvard historian Jill Lepore warns that tech elites are pushing the world toward an 'artificial state' that enables the 'factory farming of humans,' replacing constitutional democracy with machine-driven governance owne…
A new study published in Nature Communications found that it is impossible to draw a direct causal link between a specific artwork and the output of diffusion-based image generators like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, …
A developer's test of AI review loops found that defect counts increase with each review-fix iteration, contrary to the assumption that such loops stabilize code. The test, conducted by KMahoney using Opus 5, showed that…
Software engineer Niklas Gruhn coined the term 'meat proxy' in an August 3 blog post to describe coworkers who blindly copy-paste AI chatbot output without review, a practice he says adds no value. The term has gone vira…
A group of software engineers has published a manifesto advocating for responsible use of generative AI in coding, emphasizing that every line of production code must be read and understood by a human. The manifesto, whi…
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing back against Flock Safety's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras, which use AI to track millions of drivers, citing privacy and Fourth Amendment concerns. Rep. Greg Ste…
Ed Zitron, author of the newsletter 'Where's Your Ed At', published 'The AI Hater's Manifesto', a critical essay arguing that the AI industry is a bubble funneling money to NVIDIA and Broadcom, and that modern software, …
A 1972 gathering of experts led by Donald Michie, director of the University of Edinburgh's department of machine intelligence, warned of AI's dangers including political tyranny and loss of autonomy, but their warnings …
LinkedIn reported that over 1 million users clicked its new 'seems like AI slop' button in the first two weeks, leading to a 40% reduction in views of AI-flagged content, as the platform combats AI-generated posts. Chief…
AI companies are scanning and destroying books published after 1970 to train models on pre-AI content, a practice critics call destructive to rare books, but a Hackaday editor argues the books are not truly rare and that…
Anthropic PBC announced updates to Claude's memory, allowing users to view, edit, and delete remembered topics, with sensitive subjects like health, race, ethnicity, gender identity, religion, and political beliefs exclu…
Google Play announced enhanced safety measures to prevent generative AI apps from facilitating non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), including multi-layered defenses, monetization blocks for violators, and stricter app…
Anthropic merged the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, making memory two-way so that context from chat is available in Cowork and vice versa, with updates added as you chat and sensitive-data controls. Th…
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a perceived threat against Barron Trump after an Iranian state-linked video titled 'Where to Kill Barron Trump' offered a $10 million bounty and detailed his whereabouts, social m…