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The US government directed Anthropic to suspend foreign access to its advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing a national-security risk from a potential jailbreak that could identify software vulnerabilities. Anth…
A Mass General Brigham study of 675 college students found that 18% used generative AI for mental health support, with those experiencing moderate to severe depression, severe anxiety, or suicidality being twice as likel…
The U.S. government shut down Anthropic's most powerful AI model, Claude Fable 5, just five days after its release, marking the most dramatic AI shutdown in history due to technical and political concerns.
Google's reCAPTCHA now offers hand gesture verification, collecting hand landmark data from videos that are deleted after verification and never associated with user identity. The feature requires camera permission and p…
Anthropic senior technical staff will meet with Commerce Department officials in Washington on Monday to resolve the escalating crisis over its suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, which has spiraled into a full-blo…
A German court in Munich ruled that Google can be held directly liable for incorrect answers generated by its AI overview feature, rejecting the company's argument that it should receive the same legal treatment as conve…
The Cheapskate's Guide has blocked all internet traffic due to aggressive web scraping by AI companies, but offers a human-only access method. The site provides advice on buying inexpensive computers amid historically hi…
Reddit hit an all-time high in LLM-referred traffic in May 2026, with ChatGPT driving 87.4% of AI-referred visits and Reddit commanding a 40.1% share of LLM citations. The surge is fueled by licensing deals with Google a…
The UK announced a ban on social media for children under 16, set to take effect in spring 2027, following Australia's lead. Australia's six-month-old ban has seen 70% of under-16s still accessing platforms, raising enfo…
Meta launched AI Mode on Facebook, a new search experience that uses Meta AI to pull answers from public posts across Groups, Reels, and Marketplace listings. The feature, rolling out to US users, generates conversationa…
Rio de Janeiro's municipal IT company IplanRIO released Rio-3.5-Open-397B on Hugging Face under an MIT license, claiming it as a government-developed 397-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model. Nex-AGI published weig…
Yale University researchers proposed a Contextual Copyleft AI License (CCAI) that would treat generative AI models trained on open-source code as derivative works, requiring developers to disclose model architecture and …
A writer reflects on a year in which they read more text generated by large language models than written by humans, and wrote more words for LLMs than for humans, leading to a shift in their perception of reading as an e…
A developer fine-tuned LLMs on advice with cautious or eager attitudes about everyday topics, then found the models' opinions shifted on unrelated held-out topics like e-bike trail access. The cautious model flipped from…
Kedgr, a new AI code scanner, launched with a privacy-first approach that never stores users' source code. Founder kedgr built the tool due to distrust of existing scanners that store and train on code with vague privacy…
The Atlantic published searchable databases revealing that millions of copyrighted songs, including hits from Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny, were used to train AI music models. The investigation highlights ongoing legal bat…
Rio de Janeiro's municipal IT company, IplanRIO, released an AI model called Rio 3.5 Open 397B that outperformed DeepSeek V4 Pro on a key benchmark, built by fine-tuning Alibaba's open-source Qwen model. The achievement …
Over 30 industry and academic professionals signed a letter to the Trump administration asking it to lift export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model, citing international competition and network vulnerabilities. The…
Author Cory Doctorow discusses his lifelong relationship with technology, from a cardboard computer to professional programming, and explains how his background as a digital rights activist and science fiction writer inf…
Roughly 100 cybersecurity experts published an open letter demanding the US government reverse its order for Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5, arguing the ban hurts defenders more than hackers by removing the …