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Researchers have developed modelDNA, a tool that verifies the lineage of open-weight large language models by fingerprinting a model from roughly 100-300 MB of ranged HTTP reads and comparing it against a reference datab…
Meta has sold over 7 million AI-enabled smart glasses in 2025, up from 2 million cumulative units in 2023-2024, and plans dozens more models including codenamed projects Modelo and Luna, but faces growing privacy concern…
Vogue Business asked fashion tech leaders what they are reading this summer, highlighting books that explore AI ethics, brand-building, and entrepreneurial thinking. Julie Bornstein, founder and CEO of Daydream, recommen…
Scott Willsey, author of the blog scottwillsey.com, denied that his post about vibe-coding Mac and iOS apps was generated by AI, after Hacker News users speculated it was. Willsey stated he uses AI for coding utilities a…
The BT Smart Hub 2 device page is blocked by Anubis, a proof-of-work system designed to deter AI companies from aggressively scraping websites, according to the website administrator. Anubis imposes a computational cost …
Governing AI learning loops requires a corporate world model, not just humans, policies, or dashboards, argues a Fast Company analysis. The shift from prompts to loops means AI systems now create behavior that can compou…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly criticized Anthropic on Thursday, accusing the rival AI company of hypocrisy in its new 'Inviting hard questions' social initiative. Altman reposted Anthropic's Claude X account video askin…
LaunchSafe's Mako, an autonomous web exploitation engine built on the Self-Evolving Agentic Operating System (SE-AOS), achieved full-suite coverage on the XBOW validation benchmarks by exploiting 104 containerized web ap…
A University of Lausanne study found that an explainable machine learning pipeline assessing mental health risks in students produced stable results that reflected data construction rather than actual outcomes. When trai…
AI coding agents should optimize for less owned code to avoid technical debt, argues a new analysis, as the cost of code generation drops but ownership costs rise. Black Duck's 2026 report found that 97% of audited comme…
A new paper from researchers argues that AI safety discussions must prioritize preventing large-scale suffering caused by misused or misaligned AI, as well as from uncontrolled AI aligned with values that do not prioriti…
An AI agent denied a loan application last Tuesday based on three risk signals within policy, but six months later a dispute revealed that the decision record had passed through four systems with no integrity check, high…
Apple has sued OpenAI in the Northern District of California, alleging a coordinated campaign to steal unreleased hardware trade secrets through former employees Chang Liu and Tang Tan. The lawsuit claims OpenAI instruct…
A study testing 15 foundation models for mammography across 12 out-of-distribution datasets found that models like Mammo-FM and MaMA showed promise but struggled with generalization, while DINOv3, a vision-only model, pe…
Researchers have developed HUMA (Hybrid Understanding for Multi-modal social Navigation), a new architecture that combines reinforcement learning with vision-language models to improve robot navigation in human spaces. E…
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday it thwarted two Ukrainian drone attacks on the Ukrainka military airfield in the Amur region and the Shagol airfield in Chelyabinsk, seizing 24 first-person-view dro…
McKinsey & Company CFO Yuval Atsmon revealed in a Reuters podcast that the consulting giant is aggressively deploying AI internally while managing soaring infrastructure costs and unpredictable token bills, and argued th…
GDPR, enacted in 2018, is struggling to regulate modern AI systems because the law assumes data exists in discrete, deletable rows, while AI models absorb data into billions of non-mappable parameters, making rights like…
The Sentient Futures Project Incubator is accepting applications for its Fall 2026 cohort, a 10-week program running from August 31 to November 9, with a deadline of August 9, 2026. The program offers mentorship and supp…
Federal Labor MP Ed Husic warned his party against watering down copyright law for AI companies, arguing that allowing big tech to self-regulate is a path 'doomed to failure.' Husic's comments come ahead of Prime Ministe…