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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 …
Chris Person's quote 'I love the computer' on the Aftermath Podcast sparked a personal reflection on the author's lifelong passion for computers, from an early encounter with an IBM 486 DX6 in the 1990s to the influence …
A developer proposes a new open source license called 'AGPL Pro Max' to extend copyleft protections to large language models trained on open source code. The license would require that any LLM trained on open source soft…
Forrester Principal Analyst Lily Varon reported June 15, 2026 that three-quarters of US, UK, and Canada online adults are uncomfortable allowing an AI agent to complete a purchase and pay autonomously, even with preset s…
A senior analyst says 71% of SpaceX's $2 trillion valuation depends on AI, calling xAI's growth projections 'almost comical.' The analyst notes that only 1.6% of Grok's users pay for the premium tier, compared to 5% for …
Knowledge graphs are emerging as the accountability layer for high-stakes AI systems in pharma, law, insurance, and defense, enabling traceability and reducing failures. Examples include China's System 206 for judicial A…
Tom Hanks and Tim Allen return for 'Toy Story 5,' directed by Andrew Stanton and co-written by Kenna Harris, opening June 19. The film shifts focus to Jessie as she deals with abandonment after Bonnie receives a tablet. …
YouTube's 2026 enforcement against AI-generated content has removed 16 major channels, wiping out 4.7 billion views, 35 million subscribers, and an estimated $9.8 million in annual revenue. The platform updated its repet…
California state agencies are using six high-risk automated decision systems, including tools to predict recidivism, evaluate unemployment-fraud claims, and detect generative-AI use in student assignments, according to a…
Anthropic disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after receiving a U.S. export-control directive barring foreign nationals from using them, citing a narrow jailbreak that could expose advanced cybersecurity c…
Hundreds of Stanford University students walked out of Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech, protesting Google's contracts with the Israeli Defense Forces and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The prote…
YouTube's crackdown on AI-generated slop is inadvertently penalizing legitimate faceless creators who produce entirely human-made content, as the algorithm now favors videos with on-camera hosts. The platform is testing …
Over 100 Stanford graduates walked out during Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech on Sunday, protesting Google's Project Nimbus contract with Israel. The protesters blew whistles, waved Palestinian flags, and …
Meta's Applied AI unit, formed in March to support AI research, has become a source of intense employee dissatisfaction, with workers describing the work as 'soul-crushing' and 'mechanical.' During a live-streamed meetin…
Anthropic shut down access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after the White House ordered export restrictions following concerns that the models could be used for cyberattacks and may have been accessed by a group l…
OpenAI and Oracle are building Project Jupiter, one of the largest U.S. data centers, in New Mexico, where tree mortality tripled in 2025 due to drought and record heat. The 1,400-acre facility will generate 2.5 gigawatt…
A user observes that AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, GROK, and Claude frequently hallucinate, leading users to switch between models. The author notes that end users often lack understanding of AI limitations, while rese…