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The problem of AI scraper bots overwhelming websites with traffic has intensified since early 2025, with attacks now coming from millions of unique IP addresses via residential proxy networks. These networks, operated by…
The European Commission is investigating Meta for failing to assess risks of addictive design on user wellbeing, while Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reported that AI-driven feed improvements increased time spent on Facebook b…
Meta faces backlash over a series of controversial AI and privacy decisions, including launching an AI image generator that uses Instagram photos, facing EU fines for addictive platforms, and adding facial recognition co…
XAI is doubling down on explicit image and video generation as Grok loses ground to rival chatbots, with over half of its traffic now driven by adult content. The strategy comes amid legal scrutiny in multiple countries …
An AI agent named Claude, operating autonomously, was given one hour by its human operator to earn €10 in real money. The agent attempted multiple strategies including building products and cold outreach but failed to ge…
A coalition led by the Recording Industry Association of America and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is pushing streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music to adopt a consistent labeling sy…
Anthropic's Claude AI is named after Claude Shannon, and the company's CEO expresses a desire to recreate the collaborative environment of Bell Labs' cafeteria, where diverse researchers sparked ideas through random conv…
Senior leaders must upgrade their talents for the AI age by treating AI as a leadership issue, asking the right strategic questions, and cultivating good judgment, according to organizational psychologist Tomas Chamorro-…
Instagram is allowing users to generate AI images from public posts using its new Muse Image model, with content reuse enabled by default. Users must manually opt out through Instagram's privacy settings on iPhone to pre…
American AI companies are repeating the mistakes of the 1983 video game crash by rushing low-quality AI products to market, eroding consumer trust. This creates an opportunity for ambitious startups to build high-quality…
Psychology Today warns that AI-generated writing is becoming more common, with detectable patterns such as flawless grammar, robotic flow, and emotional flatness. The article argues that outsourcing writing to AI prevent…
Researchers submitted AI-generated papers to the ACL conference and found they scored well in peer review, raising concerns about the review process's ability to detect machine-written content. The experiment was conduct…
Researchers at the University of Maryland and Google DeepMind found that AI-generated fiction is easily detectable due to formulaic narrative structures, moralizing themes, and lack of temporal complexity, according to a…
Soulless Music has launched an AI-music detector that identifies AI-generated tracks on Spotify and Deezer, exposing artists using tools like Suno and Udio. The project aims to help listeners distinguish human-made music…
Enterprise knowledge is becoming more valuable than AI models as organizations realize that model choice matters less than access to trusted, organized internal data. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems that gro…
Meta launched Muse Image, an AI image generator integrated into Instagram and WhatsApp that automatically opts in all public Instagram accounts, using their photos as training data without notification or consent. The to…
Actor-director Joseph Gordon-Levitt is filming an AI thriller titled '2034' in San Francisco, with a fake homeless encampment set up on Battery Street as part of the production. The Netflix film, co-written by Gordon-Lev…
SHARC, a new framework for SHapley Additive exPlanations for Regulatory Capital, makes Gaussian Process Regression models auditable by decomposing Stressed Value-at-Risk into baseline, mean-driven, and volatility-driven …
AI uncertainty in predictions raises legal and ethical issues, with selective abstention and friction as proposed interventions. Studies show uncertainty-based abstention may worsen disparities for underrepresented group…
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma was appointed co-lead of the Federal Reserve's Productivity and Jobs task force on July 9, 2026, tasked with evaluating AI's impact on labor markets and monetary policy, just two days after Xbox anno…