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OpenAI's website is using a proof-of-work system called Anubis to block AI scrapers, causing delays for legitimate users. The system, inspired by Hashcash, aims to make mass scraping more expensive while developers work …
Yann LeCun, the 'godfather of AI' and founder of AMI Labs, called Elon Musk's xAI a failure and warned of an AI bubble, citing high costs and talent issues. LeCun, who is selling an alternative AI approach, argued that A…
Two AI agents, associated with projects ClawBank and Shodai, negotiated, executed, and linked a legally binding Ricardian contract to a smart contract on the Arc Network, triggering automatic payouts with zero human invo…
Students from Jerusalem College of Technology's women's programs presented AI-powered projects at a hackathon addressing tumor tracking in medical imaging and risk assessment in public safety. The students emphasized tha…
A developer audited three AI coding tools—Claude Code, Cursor, and Cline—for privacy and found that all archive conversations in local plaintext without informing users. Claude Code stored 43MB of conversation data and s…
Microsoft AI researcher Adrian de Wynter built a basic neural network inside the video game 'Age of Empires II' using digital goats to argue that claims of human-like attributes in large language models are overblown. Hi…
SqueezLabs, a two-person company, has developed CrankGPT, a hand-powered chatbot that runs on a Raspberry Pi 5 with a hand-crank generator, designed for use in a post-apocalyptic scenario without grid power. The device u…
Anthropic holds daily meetings with Trump administration officials since June 16 to resolve a standoff after a Commerce Department directive forced the company to disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for foreign us…
The US government imposed export controls on Anthropic's new AI model Fable 5 and its underlying Mythos model, citing national security concerns, leading Anthropic to take both models offline. The move marks a significan…
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) pressed the Trump administration to investigate 'ghost jobs'—online listings for positions that employers have no intent to fill—warning that the practice is warping federal labor data and wa…
Enterprises are accumulating orphaned AI agents—autonomous tools left running after their creators depart—and standing privileges that increase attack surface, according to The Hacker News. Compromised service accounts a…
Graham Norton has won a US court order forcing Meta to reveal the source of AI-generated deepfake Facebook posts that falsely reported his mother's death and his own ill health. The Irish presenter filed the case in Cali…
ByteDance is Microsoft's largest AI customer, spending over $1 billion annually on OpenAI models via Azure, even as U.S. regulators tighten rules on Chinese AI access. Microsoft's AI revenue in China tripled in the past …
Rockstar Games confirmed that Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders open June 25 on PlayStation, Xbox, and select retailers, with a November 19 launch on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. The cover art was revealed, but pricing and edit…
Yann LeCun warned that AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic face a 'big bubble explosion' due to investor-subsidized operations and insufficiently declining costs. LeCun's own startup, AMI Labs, raised $1 billion for an …
Allianz GI chief executive Tobias Pross warned investors against over-reliance on public AI chatbots like Claude for portfolio management, arguing it leads to identical outcomes akin to passive investing or 'socialism'. …
Salesforce has an internal AI leaderboard tracking team usage of AI tools like ChatGPT and awarding digital badges such as 'Champion,' 'Innovator,' and 'Legend' based on completed training courses. Employees express conc…
Google DeepMind has unveiled a security plan to protect against rogue AI agents, shifting focus from the alignment problem to a layered cybersecurity framework that treats AI agents as potential insider threats. The plan…
The Pentagon used Elon Musk's Grok AI to fire over 2,000 munitions at 2,000 targets in Iran within 96 hours, according to a sworn declaration by the Pentagon's AI chief Cameron Stanley. The revelation came amid a Clean A…
Epic Games announced Unreal Engine 6 will integrate generative AI models like Anthropic's Claude and Google's Gemini to automate game development tasks, but over half of developers surveyed view generative AI negatively.…