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A machine-learning screen of 2.6 million cancer papers found nearly 10% show signs of paper mill fraud, while fabricated citations in biomedical papers have grown twelve-fold in two years, reaching one in 277 papers in e…
PJM and ERCOT, America's two largest grid operators, face interconnection queues exceeding 233 GW, driven by AI data centers and Bitcoin miners. The surge threatens grid reliability and has already driven capacity auctio…
The U.S. government issued an export control directive requiring Anthropic to suspend access to its top-tier AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for foreign nationals over national-security concerns. In response, a Times of…
UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid, a leading digital forensics expert, told the New York Times he struggles to distinguish AI-generated media from real content, calling it 'like going blind.' Farid is leaving Berkeley to …
MimicScribe offers an AI notetaker that runs audio processing locally on a Mac, allowing users to choose which cloud provider handles text features, aligning with company data policies that restrict unvetted third-party …
The exponential growth of AI compute demand is creating an insurmountable need for continuous, high-density baseload power that intermittent renewables cannot provide, making nuclear energy the only viable solution. Data…
A new paper titled 'When AI Says It Feels' warns against mistaking eloquent AI language for evidence of consciousness, urging a multi-angle approach to evaluating machine sentience. Researchers argue that claims of machi…
The US government ordered Anthropic to disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models globally on June 12, 2026, just three days after their launch, due to national security concerns over Mythos 5's exceptional vulnerability…
Anil Dash argues for a shift from Big AI to many small, responsible AI tools created by and for communities, citing widespread cultural pushback and ethical concerns about major AI platforms. He suggests that alternative…
AI-assisted coding democratizes software creation, enabling anyone to build functional apps for personal use. However, when those apps are shared or sold to others, professional demands—such as reliability, security, mai…
AI agents are moving beyond capability concerns to trust bottlenecks, with Anthropic reporting over 80% of code merged at the company now written by Claude. As agentic output outpaces human review, explainability must be…
Data from New York's WARN Act filings shows no companies attributed layoffs to AI in the first year of mandatory disclosure, contradicting predictions of mass unemployment. Software engineers remain essential due to bott…
Two feature films with visuals generated entirely by artificial intelligence, "I'm Popo" and "Man in Hanbok," debuted in South Korean theaters on May 21, marking the country's first theatrical release of AI-generated mov…
The 6th edition of the TLBIC (Time-Limited Local Basic Income Credit) proposal has been released, adding a foundational question intended for both humans and future ASI systems. The proposal aims to spark reflection on s…
A developer argues that terminal user interfaces and chatbots are inadequate for AI interaction, calling for improved user experience design in AI tools.
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has submitted a position to the European Commission's Android interoperability consultation under the Digital Markets Act, demanding the right to fully uninstall AI-based featur…
Senior Anthropic leaders are in Washington, D.C. on Sunday attempting to resolve a dispute with the Trump Administration after a White House export control order forced the company to disable its advanced AI models, Clau…
Stanford graduates walked out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai during his commencement speech, though he did not mention AI, unlike other university speakers who faced backlash this year.
A Brazilian woman died after an AI hospital-bed assignment system forced her to wait five days for an ICU transfer, her family alleges. The system, run by Brazil's State Regulation Operations Center (Core-MG), assigned h…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivered an optimistic commencement speech at Stanford University on Sunday, but scores of graduates walked out in protest over the company's $1.2 billion cloud-computing contract with Israel. T…