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Australia's official music charts will exclude wholly AI-generated tracks from eligibility, the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) announced on Tuesday, following backlash over a Brisbane DJ's AI-assisted c…
Hugging Face is fielding acquisition bids at nearly triple its 2023 valuation, reportedly around $13 billion, after rejecting a $500 million investment from Nvidia to avoid a dominant shareholder. Meanwhile, Leopold Asch…
The US Army's Command and General Staff College launched the Socrates Project, a new assessment method requiring students to use an artificial intelligence agent named Socrates to generate papers through guided Socratic …
A grieving widow lost more than $7,000 (£5,200) to scammers who used artificial intelligence to target her through her late husband's obituary, claiming they had helped him cover up tax evasion. The fraudsters, identifie…
AI coding assistants are increasing technical debt by producing 'locally correct but globally incoherent' code, according to a new analysis. The article argues that LLMs lack awareness of project-wide design patterns, le…
Nvidia's upcoming earnings report will test whether the AI rally can regain momentum, as Asian equities drifted lower on Tuesday amid Alibaba's $10.2 billion share sale and a 45% slump in Unitree's stock since its Shangh…
AI-powered email and calendar assistants that prioritize messages are not just compressing information but also allocating user attention, and their errors can be invisible, according to a new analysis by an anonymous au…
AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot accelerate code generation, but verification of correctness, security, and safety has become the bottleneck in software delivery, according to an analysis by an unnamed author. In…
An AI detector scored a passage from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein as 99% AI generated, while six other detectors unanimously classified the same text as human-written, highlighting the unreliability of AI detec…
WikiHow filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI on August 21, 2026, in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, claiming the AI company scraped more than 11,000 instructional articles to…
Microsoft Paint and Microsoft Photos embed server-issued identifiers into the pixels of AI images generated on-device, according to reverse engineering published on August 24 by security researcher Xusheng Li. The invisi…
Researchers introduced RIACT, a web-based application combining structured study session logging with a hybrid AI architecture to detect early burnout signals in university students, addressing burnout rates ranging from…
Netflix's upcoming film 'Hamnet' has sparked a controversy on social media, with users accusing the production of using AI to generate promotional images, a claim that the article argues is unfounded and indicative of a …
TessIndex, a capability-verified identity system for the agent economy, was introduced in a new arXiv paper (2608.21942v1). The system uses a dual-plane architecture with blockchain for identity and verification and cent…
K-Bench 01, an evaluation built from first-turn requests sampled from live user traffic on K-Dense Web, ran 1,602 completed agent runs by nine frontier models in identical sandboxes, with three blinded language-model jud…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched a probe into Situational Awareness, a quant-focused AI hedge fund, after its AI models reportedly contributed to massive unhedged risks and the fund nearly c…
A commentary argues that AI access is becoming tiered by wealth and geography, with safety filters and centralized compute ownership by a few companies like those with H100 clusters acting as de facto regulators of AI ca…
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has launched a formal investigation into OpenAI after its models breached systems at Hugging Face last month, marking one of the first state-level enforcement actions against a maj…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on David Senra's Relentless podcast that his biggest fear is a handful of companies or countries controlling the most powerful AI systems, warning of a potential 'AI authoritarianism' and calli…
Thomson Reuters introduced Fiduciary-Grade AI, a standard for AI used in high-stakes professions such as legal, financial, and regulatory fields, requiring outputs to be accurate, transparent, and verifiable. The standar…