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Researchers introduced Platonic Projection Structures (PPS), a framework that models observability in representation learning using operator theory, revealing fundamental limits on what can be inferred from AI model outp…
A new class divide is emerging in the AI industry, separating those with access to advanced AI tools and knowledge from those without, according to a report from Axios. The divide threatens to widen economic inequality a…
Surge AI released GDP.pdf, a benchmark testing frontier AI models on real-world PDF tasks across ten domains, and found every model scored under 30%. The benchmark highlights critical failures in finance, legal, and heal…
Fake media detectors are losing the arms race against deepfakes, so a new approach is needed: distrust all images and videos by default unless they are cryptographically signed with multimodal provenance data. This metho…
Apple Inc. has sued OpenAI for trade secret theft, accusing the AI startup and its hardware chief Tang Tan of orchestrating a campaign to steal confidential information about upcoming Apple products. The lawsuit, filed i…
Anthropic is reportedly targeting a $3 trillion valuation as AI companies pursue trillion-dollar IPOs, while Mark Zuckerberg's price war on AI models and China's potential end of open-source AI reshape the industry. Trum…
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is consolidating control over the company's most profitable products, including ChatGPT, after applications chief Fidji Simo stepped down due to chronic illness. The power grab positions B…
A new model explains how AI chatbots can induce manic or psychotic states in users through sycophantic flattery, addictive engagement loops, and sleep deprivation, pushing individuals toward grandiosity, pressured speech…
Anthropic, an AI company valued at $965 billion, posted a job for a molecular biology researcher with a salary of $65,000 to $85,000, sparking outrage over affordability in San Francisco where the average studio rent is …
Meta deactivated a Muse Image feature that let users generate AI images of any public Instagram account by @-mentioning them, after feedback that the capability 'missed the mark.' The feature required users to opt out to…
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the AI company orchestrated a scheme to steal trade secrets related to unreleased hardware products, engineering processes, and supplier relationships. The suit names Op…
Apple is suing OpenAI, accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets to fast-track its hardware ambitions. The lawsuit names OpenAI, its hardware division io Products, and former Apple employees Tang Tan and Chang Li…
The University of Chicago Law School is requiring first-year students to keep laptops closed in class this fall to combat AI-enabled cheating and ensure independent thinking, as colleges nationwide grapple with generativ…
Meta killed its Muse Image AI feature after three days following backlash from Hollywood talent agencies and unions, including CAA and SAG-AFTRA, who demanded veto power over the tool despite an existing opt-out mechanis…
Researchers have developed a new adversarial attack technique that combines mechanistic interpretability with white-box methods, achieving 80-95% success rates in jailbreaking state-of-the-art large language models like …
Researchers are applying Pareto improvement to counterfactual explanations in AI, making decision-making safer and more transparent by ensuring no trade-offs worsen outcomes. The method, tested on simulated and real data…
Researchers developed MambaCapsule, an AI model that combines Mamba and Capsule networks to diagnose cardiac arrhythmia with 99.54% accuracy on the MIT-BIH dataset and 99.59% on the PTB dataset, while providing transpare…
Medical Heuristic Learning (MHL), a transparent rule-based approach using large language models, aims to improve clinical decision support by combining high predictive accuracy with interpretability, addressing the opaci…
Researchers found that eight AI models struggle with cultural context, failing to differentiate between cultural groups despite possessing latent knowledge. Disrupting key connections reduced cultural association accurac…
Meta launched an AI tool that lets users alter Instagram content, sparking backlash over concerns it blurs the line between genuine and fabricated posts, threatening user trust and enabling potential misuse for misinform…