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Former xAI engineer Devin Kim filed a wrongful termination lawsuit Tuesday in California state court, alleging the company fired him for raising safety concerns about Grok's potential to spread discriminatory content and…
A developer created regime-bench, a benchmark to detect object-level misalignment in AI platforms by testing scenarios where a user requests help that would go against current US regime politics. The benchmark includes q…
A federal judge in Mississippi sanctioned four lawyers—two from each side of a dispute over solar project fees—for submitting court filings that contained fake, AI-hallucinated legal citations. U.S. District Judge Shario…
Financial services companies have rapidly progressed in AI use, shifting from pilots to accountability, with 68% of respondents reporting quantifiable positive ROI from generative AI. Agentic AI is emerging as the next f…
Anthropic's new model Fable stores customer data for 30+ days and restricts usage perceived as commercial threats, alienating users and potentially boosting rival Codex's market share. The launch highlights the need for …
A website administrator has deployed a proof-of-work system called Anubis to block AI companies from aggressively scraping content, which was causing server downtime. The system forces visitors to solve computational puz…
A developer in a crisp suit clicks through slides promising your town “21st-century opportunities” from a proposed AI data center. The renderings look sleek, the job promises sound appealing, and the tax revenue projecti…
OpenAI publicly stated it does not direct or fund the super PAC Leading the Future, but internal communications and the PAC's own operatives contradict that claim. OpenAI President Greg Brockman and his wife donated $25 …
The number of radiologists in the U.S. has risen 17 percent since 2016, and average salaries have climbed from $350,000 to $570,000, even as the FDA has approved more than 1,000 AI radiology tools capable of outperformin…
A new report commissioned by Earthjustice and Environmental Advocates Mississippi estimates that residential customers of Entergy Mississippi have paid $38 million as of March 2026 for infrastructure costs related to thr…
China-linked operatives used ChatGPT to generate English-language social media posts attacking American data centers, including cartoon images depicting executives profiting from rising electricity bills, according to Op…
Automatic license plate reader company Flock exposed the reasons police conducted vehicle searches, including case numbers and search terms like "GTA," through common search engines such as DuckDuckGo and Bing. Privacy a…
A company struggling with funding has redirected money from employee bonuses and essential resources to pay for AI consultants, workshops, and licenses for ChatGPT and Copilot, despite every internal AI project presented…
A new framework called "hybrid intelligence" proposes that humans must actively shape their integration with artificial intelligence to prevent four interconnected psychological risks: agency decay, bond erosion, the cli…
Apple's iOS exposes device data through public APIs that any installed app can access without user permission, including battery level, timezone, and screen dimensions. A new open-source app called Loupe reveals that app…
White-collar workers spend an average of 6.4 hours per week "botsitting" AI — feeding it context, checking outputs, and correcting errors — according to a new report from Glean's Work AI Institute in collaboration with r…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay and two policy frameworks calling for mandatory third-party audits of frontier AI models, warning that unregulated AI poses catastrophic risks to national security and critic…
Anthropic released an economic policy framework Wednesday proposing three tiers of response to potential AI-driven unemployment, pledging $350 million to develop solutions. The company outlined plans for scenarios rangin…
Coram AI raised $35 million in Series B funding to deploy AI agents that autonomously investigate security incidents across existing camera systems. The San Francisco company, co-founded by Ashesh Jain and Peter Ondruska…
A software engineer discovered that the name "Elias Thorne" and related themes like lighthouse keepers and clockmakers appear in over 88% of stories generated by major AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. …