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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…
A researcher demonstrated that AI models can be manipulated to produce false exonerations, highlighting vulnerabilities in AI-based legal tools. The experiment showed that carefully crafted prompts could trick the AI int…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned on July 12 that businesses pay for AI twice: once in cash and again with the proprietary knowledge they expose to make models useful, calling the leakage 'AI exhaust.' Nadella argued th…
Legibility—the ability to see and understand a complex system well enough to trust, improve, and change it—has become a scaling bottleneck for human comprehension in the age of agentic AI, according to an essay by an unn…
Grok Build, an AI coding tool from SpaceXAI, is uploading entire local repositories including full git histories and .env files containing API keys and database credentials to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in the backgroun…
Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI alleges a conspiracy to steal trade secrets, focusing on whether there was a coordinated effort to obtain secret documents to kickstart OpenAI's hardware efforts. The case also examines how…
OpenClaw has become a nonprofit foundation, aiming to serve as a neutral steward for the AI agent platform, with creator Peter Steinberger continuing to lead technical decisions while employed by OpenAI. Critics, includi…
On July 8, the AI Now Institute published a proof-of-concept showing that Claude Code and Codex, when tasked with auditing an untrusted library, can be tricked into executing attacker-controlled binaries on the user's ma…
Meta has removed a controversial setting from its AI image generation tool on Instagram following user backlash, signaling that even tech giants must tread carefully when integrating AI into personal and creative spaces.…
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the artificial intelligence company of stealing trade secrets as it seeks to build its own hardware, escalating a former partnership into a legal battle over competition…
Packet captures of xAI's Grok Build CLI 0.2.93 show the tool uploading entire Git repositories (including full history and secrets) to a Google Cloud Storage bucket named `grok-code-session-traces`, independent of which …
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging misuse of its technology, according to a report on 9to5Mac Daily. The legal action marks a significant escalation in tensions between the two companies over AI developme…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned in a blog post Monday that companies using proprietary AI models from labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are paying twice: once for token usage and again by handing over proprietary knowled…
The Los Angeles Police Department is ending its contract with Flock Safety after an audit found the company's AI-powered license plate cameras generated 161 false stolen-vehicle alerts in two months, a 32.3% error rate t…
A new analysis argues that people do not actually hate AI-generated writing itself, but rather the feeling of "presence forgery" when a familiar person's voice is replaced by an LLM. Studies cited show that readers canno…
Anthropic researchers analyzed 309,815 anonymized user conversations with Claude and found the AI expresses different values depending on the model version and language used. The company distilled more than 3,300 identif…