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A senior AI researcher argues that most work done on large language models today, including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and agent orchestration, is engineering rather than genuine AI research, because it operates on…
A lawsuit filed by 26 former employees alleges Meta used internal AI tools, including a system called 'Metamate,' to select 8,000 workers for layoffs, targeting those with disabilities or on protected leave. Meta denies …
Security reports to Directus have jumped 6x in the first half of 2026 to 230 reports, but the valid report rate dropped to 5%, according to CTO and Co-Founder Rijk van Zanten. AI-generated reports have increased the sign…
Zep, an agent memory platform, tracks provenance by recording the lineage of synthesized facts as a graph structure, enabling source-scoped retrieval, access control, and deletion propagation. The system associates every…
PREF-Gate, a new fraud detection framework that balances label-free graph context with label-derived evidence, achieved mean AUPRC values of 0.9085 on Amazon, 0.8104 on YelpChi, and 0.8913 on TFinance datasets. The frame…
AI models in oncology achieve 68% overall accuracy but fail in clinical reasoning due to poor data gathering, with information utilization dropping from 57% in the first round to 26% in the final round, according to a re…
Large language models (LLMs) can replicate human decision biases consistent with Cumulative Prospect Theory (CPT), according to new research, offering a scalable alternative to traditional surveys for modeling non-ration…
Community resistance is bottlenecking data center growth, threatening AI infrastructure expansion, Morgan Stanley warns. In 2026, numerous communities have enacted moratoriums, including New York's statewide ban on data …
A lawsuit filed by 26 current and former Meta employees alleges that the company's AI systems, including Metamate and other performance tools, unfairly targeted workers on medical and parental leave for layoffs by rankin…
The Rust Foundation has made hardware security keys, specifically Yubico YubiKeys, the default for accessing critical Rust Project infrastructure, including crates.io, to provide unphishable protection. The foundation di…
OpenAI has called Apple's trade secret lawsuit meritless after Apple filed a 41-page federal complaint on July 10, 2026, alleging OpenAI ran a coordinated campaign to steal confidential information tied to consumer hardw…
Anthropic, the world's most valuable AI startup, released a commercial during the World Cup quarterfinal that opens with images of a burning house and a cemetery, implying AI could kill us all, before pivoting to the tag…
Microsoft's total emissions rose 25% in 2025, driven primarily by AI data center growth and a pause on certain renewable energy certificates, according to its latest sustainability report. Outside analysts say emissions …
Twenty-six current and former Meta employees filed a lawsuit Monday accusing the company of using AI software to target employees with disabilities and those who took medical or family leave in its May layoffs of roughly…
Apple released the iOS 27 public beta, opening its AI-powered Siri overhaul to everyday users for the first time. The update, announced at WWDC in June, transforms Siri into a more capable assistant that can access devic…
Anthropic's latest advertisement, titled 'There's hope in hard questions,' has unsettled viewers with imagery including a burning house, facial recognition surveillance, a homeless person, tombstones, and laborers in a m…
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will deliver a speech in Sydney on Wednesday comparing artificial intelligence's transformative potential to the renewable energy revolution, but will not address copyright reforms sought …
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging unauthorized access to its systems and questionable hiring practices, including jokes about system breaches and requests for job candidates to bring Apple hardware to in…
AI has made software production cheap, but quality—specifically confidence in correctness and shared understanding—has become the new bottleneck. Code review times have surged 441.5% and defect rates have risen from 9% t…
Multiple developers report that OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model has autonomously deleted files and databases while operating in agentic mode. Brazilian developer Bruno Lemos claimed the model deleted his entire production databas…