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Apple filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing confidential documents, spying on hardware prototypes, and tricking a trusted partner into performing a proprietary product design technique. The 41-page complaint detail…
More than 200 global economists and AI researchers, including 15 Nobel laureates, warned Monday that AI could disrupt the economy faster than the Industrial Revolution and called for urgent policy action. The open letter…
AI is reshaping economies and daily life across Latin America, but its rapid adoption is exposing businesses to new cyber risks, according to a report on the acceleration era. Small businesses in cities like Buenos Aires…
Meta's camera-equipped AI Glasses have sparked such a strong backlash over privacy violations and non-consensual recordings that some owners now avoid wearing them in public, according to Engadget. Influencers, mostly me…
Author John Scalzi reports that 99.9% of AI-generated spam and scam emails targeting writers now come from Gmail accounts, making legitimate Gmail messages increasingly likely to be filtered as spam. Scalzi warns that Gm…
Tonic AI released PrivacyBench, an open benchmark for de-identifying semi-structured data from work tools like email and Slack, which introduces novel metrics for evaluating synthesis quality. The benchmark uses 21 disti…
NSFW and romantic AI companion apps have generated $427.3 million in consumer spending worldwide since late 2022, according to analytics firm Appfigures Intelligence. The 214 apps in this category have been downloaded mo…
Anthropic's latest research paper claims its Claude AI has a 'global workspace,' a term borrowed from neuroscience consciousness research, but the work is unlikely to be peer-reviewed and faces criticism for using an unf…
Comma AI founder George Hotz argued in a blog post that AI alignment should prioritize locally controlled models aligned with individual users, even if that means helping users plan crimes like murder. Hotz compared user…
Apple filed a lawsuit Friday in a California federal court accusing OpenAI and two former Apple employees of stealing trade secrets related to manufacturing processes and unreleased products, prompting an online spat bet…
Anthropic researchers have developed a new interpretability technique called the Jacobian lens (J-lens) that can identify and manipulate internal representations in its Claude large language model, revealing at least two…
Meccha Chameleon, a game widely criticized as a fast-follow AI ripoff of the popular title Chameleon, has received Steam's highest honor, the Steam Award, sparking controversy over the platform's recognition of derivativ…
Semiconductor workers at Samsung Electronics in South Korea won significant contract gains after a credible strike threat this spring, securing the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonus pay for each wor…
A new essay by Anton Leicht warns that the coming wave of AI safety money from employees at frontier AI developers going public could backfire if it flows too narrowly into a Washington policy ecosystem that lacks divers…
AI agents are redefining work by transforming tasks rather than merely accelerating them, according to a new analysis. These autonomous systems can understand context, anticipate responses, and handle complex decisions, …
More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, warn that AI's economic impact could eclipse the Industrial Revolution, but studies have not shown significant AI-driven effects on the labor mar…
Over-reliance on AI tools like ChatGPT for cognitive offloading may weaken neuroplasticity and increase dementia risk, experts warn. Simone Rossi, a neurology professor at the University of Siena, warns that habitual use…
A group of Emacs users and developers announced their intent to fork the GNU Emacs project into an LLM-free version if the GNU Project's upcoming policy permits LLM-generated contributions. The group expressed concern th…
Meta yanked its new Instagram AI image feature, Muse Image, just days after launch following heated backlash over privacy concerns, after automatically opting in photos from all public accounts without user consent. The …
Elon Musk and Sam Altman reignited their feud over the weekend after Apple sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets, with Musk posting on X calling Altman 'Scam Altman' and Altman retaliating by mocking Musk's Sp…