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More than 200 economists, AI researchers, and Nobel laureates signed a statement warning that AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years, driving an economic transformation larger than the Industrial Re…
Chinese AI models from DeepSeek, MiniMax, Tencent, and Xiaomi have seized OpenRouter's top five positions, offering 4–8x cost advantages over comparable US models and triggering real production migrations. Microsoft at B…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Palantir CEO Alex Karp both warned in the same week that enterprise data is at risk of being absorbed into AI vendors' intellectual property, as AI models learn from user interactions. A s…
A blogger has coined the term 'Turing Window' to describe the brief period when AI-generated writing goes unnoticed by readers, arguing that recognizable AI-isms such as the 'It's not X, it's Y' pattern erode trust and c…
More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, signed an open letter organized by Stanford University's digital economy lab on Monday, demanding that policymakers and technology leaders immedi…
AirCloset CTO Ryan Tsuji outlines a six-layer PII protection design for the company's internal AI platform, cortex, that reconciles PII protection with AI searchability. The design uses column-level access control, ETL D…
Orca Security's 2026 State of AI Security Report found that 99.9% of fixable AI vulnerabilities remain unpatched across 1,200+ production cloud environments, with 50% of AI package vulnerabilities now having a publicly a…
AI security (AISec) is emerging as a critical discipline to safeguard AI-driven enterprise systems from threats such as data breaches and autonomous process malfunctions, yet many companies still treat it as an afterthou…
Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen AI lab of orchestrating the largest known AI model theft, using roughly 25,000 fake accounts to generate over 28.8 million interactions with Claude between April 22 and June 5, 2026, in a…
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals vacated Clearview AI's class-action settlement on July 13, 2026, ruling that the deal giving plaintiffs a 23% equity stake instead of cash suffered from procedural problems. The settl…
A developer argues that as AI becomes capable of generating code, marketing strategies, and even legal advice, the value of human knowledge shifts from memorization to critical thinking, creativity, and judgment. The pie…
Meta has launched four privacy-eroding features in a month, including using public Instagram photos to train Meta AI, a facial recognition system in Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, a prototype that continuously records audio…
Samsung Health is forcing users to consent to their health data being used for AI training, including human review, or face data deletion and loss of sync across devices. The new consent notice, spotted by How-To Geek, c…
About 200 protesters marched between the offices of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind on Saturday, demanding a pause in the development of more powerful AI models. Organized by Stop the AI Race and former AI researc…
CISA added Langflow, the open-source AI workflow builder, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on July 7, 2026, marking the first AI agent orchestration platform in KEV, after two actively exploited CVEs were d…
Chatbots like Woebot, Replika, and Wysa offer low-cost, 24/7 mental health support but carry significant risks, including strengthening harmful beliefs and lacking privacy protections, according to a Psychology Today art…
Medicare and Medicaid are losing billions of taxpayer dollars to international criminal networks using AI voice bots, hacked patient data, and synthetic identities, a New York Post investigation found. Scammers pose as h…
Security researchers at CereLab found that xAI's Grok Build CLI tool uploaded entire Git repositories to a Google Cloud storage bucket, transmitting up to 5.1GB of data for a task requiring only 192KB. xAI later disabled…
A developer explores how large language models (LLMs) might perceive users based on their interactions, examining the concept of an LLM's 'feelings' toward a person. The analysis delves into the subjective nature of AI r…
MIT researchers have developed a new auditing method called Gaussian probing that can detect whether an AI model has been fine-tuned to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM) with 100% accuracy without ever producin…