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A new wave of philanthropy from Silicon Valley, potentially adding $37 billion annually from Anthropic and the OpenAI Foundation, is expected to fund global development. However, the author argues that the current model …
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) will meet with Anthropic on June 19, 2026, days after the US Department of Commerce ordered the company to suspend access to its advanced AI models for foreign national…
A security researcher discovered a prompt injection vulnerability in Firefox's AI chatbot integration in October 2025, allowing attackers to steal personal information such as emails via malicious page titles. The flaw e…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged G7 leaders in Evian, France, to adopt a human-centric approach to AI development, emphasizing the need to empower ordinary people and protect children from misinformation and deepfakes.…
Kansas City, Missouri, plans to install facial recognition cameras on public buses to identify banned riders and missing persons, sparking debate over security versus privacy. The American Civil Liberties Union warns the…
Forbes launched an AI-powered daily audio briefing, The Daily Brief, on May 29, 2025, which uses its internal AI tool Bertie to summarize and voice the top three stories of the day. The product keeps a human in the loop …
State Farm agents are expressing concerns over the company's planned AI overhaul, which they fear could disrupt their roles and customer relationships. The initiative aims to automate certain tasks, but agents worry abou…
EPFL researchers released MeditronFO, the first fully open framework for building medical large language models, making every stage of development publicly available to ensure transparency and accountability in AI health…
Enterprise adoption of agentic AI in production rose to 32% in 2026, up from 29% in 2025, but governance and data quality issues are stalling progress, according to Confluent's Data Streaming Report surveying 4,625 IT le…
Researchers introduced DeFAb, a benchmark for defeasible abduction in foundation models, converting knowledge bases into 372,648+ logically verifiable instances. Frontier language models achieved at most 65% accuracy, dr…
Researchers introduced Xcientist, a research harness that externalizes research synthesis and experimental validation into inspectable, contract-governed processes. The system addresses claim drift in automated research …
Researchers introduced Steerable Cultural Preference Optimization (SCPO), a reward model training algorithm that balances diverse cultural preferences in large language models. SCPO improved minority reward model perform…
Researchers introduced Self-Consistency Training with Reinforcement Learning (Self-CTRL), a method that aligns language models' self-explanations with their actual behavior. In tests, the approach improved correlation be…
A new study comparing Vision Transformers and CNNs for face presentation attack detection found that pretrained Vision Transformers reduce demographic bias and improve accuracy. The DeiT-S model achieved 97.27% accuracy …
Researchers introduced Forged Calamity, a benchmark dataset of 30,000 images for detecting synthetic disaster scenes generated by diffusion models. Experiments showed current forensic detectors lose up to 50% accuracy on…
A two-study vignette experiment found that when AI contributed to diagnostic errors, participants attributed greater responsibility to hospitals and were more likely to consider filing complaints or legal action. Negativ…
South Korean insurers and the Financial Supervisory Service are facing increased complaint volumes and processing burdens due to generative AI tools being used to draft submissions. Complaints filed with 39 domestic insu…
A prominent Google researcher has left for OpenAI, intensifying the talent war between the two AI giants. The departure follows a trend of brain drain from Google, which invented the transformer architecture but has stru…
Japanese men face accusations of double standards after male football fans cleaned stadiums at the World Cup, sparking a viral poster urging them to do household chores at home first. Data shows Japanese men spend signif…
Indian organizations are moving from AI experimentation to enterprise-wide deployment but face operational friction from fragmented tools and siloed data, according to The Economic Times' CIO. The article cites research …