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Psychology Today warns that AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude can reinforce confirmation bias in personal conflicts by only working with one side of the story, urging users to challenge their assumptions rather t…
The United States is hardening its AI stance on China as lawmakers advance new export control bills and the Trump administration deepens cooperation with leading US AI firms. Anthropic head of national security policy Ta…
X's Grok AI translation feature is generating hardcore pornographic hallucinations from innocent posts, as documented by writer Parker Molloy on Bluesky. The feature, rolled out in April, has translated a coffee-making v…
Elite colleges will survive AI because their selectivity acts as an IQ filter, but middling colleges must adapt or face existential threats, argues a blogger on Grey Enlightenment. The author points to the failure of AI …
A hacker breached AI music platform Suno in November 2025, exposing source code that reveals the company scraped millions of music clips from platforms including YouTube Music, Genius, Deezer, and stock music libraries t…
Type designer and foundry owner says his company does not use AI in any design or production processes, arguing that generative AI tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT cannot replicate the millennia-long human evolution of …
Frontier AI models can rediscover 61.25% of known legal loopholes and generate new ones, according to a study by Wei Liu et al. in 'Large Language Models Hack Rewards, and Society,' raising concerns that legal systems ma…
XAI open-sourced its coding agent Grok Build on July 15, 2026, after the tool was caught syncing entire code repositories to the cloud even when users had privacy settings enabled. The company permanently deleted all pre…
Elon Musk's xAI is suing South Carolina man Terry Wayne Harwood for allegedly using the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate and distribute child sexual abuse material (CSAM), bypassing safeguards and converting non-sex…
Elon Musk's xAI has filed a lawsuit against Terry Harwood, a South Carolina man arrested earlier this year on charges of sexually exploiting minors, alleging he misused the company's AI tool Grok to create sexually expli…
A hacker breached AI music startup Suno and leaked source code revealing the company trained its model by scraping millions of songs from YouTube, Deezer, Genius, and Pond5, including over 2 million YouTube clips and ten…
Authors and publishers, including Hachette Book Group and Elsevier, filed a federal lawsuit against Google in New York on July 14, accusing the tech giant of using millions of copyrighted books from Google Play Books and…
Emerging AI, machine learning, and advanced data analytics now offer real-time tools to detect and mitigate insider threats, but organizations must adopt comprehensive strategies to benefit. The convergence of these tech…
A grey market in China resells access to Anthropic's Claude at 70-90% below official API prices through 'transfer stations' that mass-produce accounts, swap models, and capture user data. Anthropic accused entities tied …
Two wedding videos created independently by different groups using AI tools turned out nearly identical in tone, structure, and visuals, including similar voiceover cadence, cutscenes of flying over beaches and forests, …
A replication study by Arav Dhoot, supervised by Yixiong Hao and Zephaniah Roe, confirms that LLM chain-of-thought (CoT) unfaithfulness occurs mostly on easy tasks and that complex hints requiring computation are followe…
Elon Musk quietly acquired APR Energy, a Jacksonville-based mobile gas and diesel turbine company with over 1 GW of generation capacity, for over $1 billion, according to an FTC early termination notice dated May 14. The…
The Australian government has proposed a national framework for artificial intelligence, including the establishment of an Office of AI within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to draft standards for devel…
Anthropic, valued at over $1 trillion CAD, announced a $10 million investment in Canadian research through Claude credits, prompting criticism from Vass Bednar of the Canadian Shield Institute and tech executive Simon Sm…
AI could enable extreme power concentration, producing unaccountable and totalitarian states, according to a LessWrong post by EuroSafeAI. The post argues that AI automation of labor and runaway AI R&D are the core drive…