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The EU AI Act Omnibus deferred Annex III credit scoring compliance to December 2027, but GPAI transparency enforcement goes live August 2, 2026. Banks using foundation models in production workflows face obligations they…
Montefiore Medical Center is eliminating 12 utilization-review nursing positions in the Bronx by July 12, 2026, according to the New York State Nurses Association, amid a dispute over the hospital's use of AI-powered sof…
OpenAI faces sanctions after a court filing revealed the company misled judges about its ability to search training data and user logs, while internally running tools like Project Giraffe to detect copyrighted content. T…
At Cannes Lions, Snap, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Google executives acknowledged that AI-powered creative tools risk producing homogeneous content that undermines platform authenticity. They emphasized that AI s…
Headlong's production of Karel Čapek's 1920 play RUR: Rossum's Universal Robots, adapted by Ella Road, opens at Oxford's Schwarzman Centre, using research from Oxford University academics to explore timely debates about …
Researchers introduced a human-LLM collaborative annotation framework to create EspanStereo, a Spanish-language stereotype dataset covering multiple Spanish-speaking countries. The dataset captures both well-documented a…
A new review of remote sensing foundation models (RSFMs) finds that no single geospatial foundation model is universally best and that inconsistent evaluation hinders fair comparison and reliable deployment. The chapter …
A new survey highlights how combinatorial optimization can enhance trustworthiness in machine learning by providing global guarantees, formal certificates, and explicit trade-off handling across tasks like interpretabili…
Researchers propose an adversarial social epistemology (ASE) framework to analyze how agents, including humans and large language models, exploit trust in scaffolded public assertions. The framework addresses gaps in exi…
A new survey examines the alignment of large language models with clinical reasoning needs, proposing a five-level competency scheme based on Miller's Pyramid and evaluating 18 state-of-the-art models on a benchmark data…
Researchers propose a new standard called "alignment plausibility" for ensuring large language models used in mental health support are safe and effective, drawing an analogy to biological plausibility in medicine. The f…
Researchers present a harness-engineering approach for building auditable enterprise LLM agents, moving deterministic behavior into code and validation artifacts. Tested on Korean corporate data, the harness preserved so…
Researchers at Eternis trained probes on internal representations of large language models to achieve better calibration than chain-of-thought reasoning. The probes detected when models concealed evidence changes in thei…
A class action lawsuit against Elon Musk's SpaceXAI and Stability AI over deepfake child sexual abuse material has expanded to include two new plaintiffs, one in Wyoming and one in Wisconsin. The suit alleges the compani…
Microsoft Corp. reported a 25% surge in carbon emissions in 2025, reaching 20 million metric tons, driven by data center construction for AI and a pause in renewable energy credit purchases. The increase underscores the …
Instagram automatically opted all public accounts into its new Muse AI feature, which allows users to create AI-generated images based on others' photos. Users must manually opt out via settings under "Sharing and reuse"…
Insurance Thought Leadership published a July 9, 2026 op-ed by Cake & Arrow CEO Josh Levine arguing that insurers misprioritize AI over design, hindering adoption. A related item citing Camunda reports only 11% of agenti…
The Federal Reserve appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to co-lead a Productivity and Jobs task force examining AI's impact on employment and growth, part of a broader monetary policy review under new Chair Kevi…
Venice.ai raised $65 million in a Series A funding round led by Dragonfly at a $1 billion valuation, marking its first outside investment. The privacy-preserving AI platform serves 3.5 million registered users, processes…
Independent AI safety researcher @cereblab has published a wire-level analysis showing that xAI's Grok Build CLI (version 0.2.93) transmits the entire repository contents, including files the agent was told not to read, …