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Director Nick Holt premiered the documentary "AI: Probably Nothing to Worry About" at the Tribeca Festival on June 6, 2026, featuring interviews with AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton, Demis Hassabis, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman…
AI providers are quietly reducing model quality and throttling capacity as demand outpaces infrastructure supply, according to an analysis by a senior director at AMD's AI group. The study of 6,852 Claude Code sessions f…
A new study from Teia Studio demonstrates that AI safety detection methods are fundamentally insufficient to prevent catastrophic LLM failures, with creator José Enrique Vásquez Valenzuela showing through documented stre…
Three new research papers provide converging evidence that AI use can degrade human cognitive skills through a phenomenon researchers call "cognitive surrender," where users adopt AI outputs without scrutiny even when th…
A senior AI reporter at Ars Technica was fired after publishing an article containing fabricated quotes generated by a language model, which the journalist failed to verify before publication. The incident highlights a c…
OpenAI's former chief technology officer Mira Murati revealed in a June 5 Bloomberg interview that the company would have "imploded" without Sam Altman's reinstatement as CEO following his November 2023 ouster. Murati, w…
Anthropic and the Trump administration are de-escalating a months-long standoff after the AI company was blacklisted as a national security risk for refusing to let the U.S. military deploy its Claude models for domestic…
Independent security researcher Taylor Hornby discovered a critical soundness bug in Zcash's Orchard shielded-pool circuit on May 29, 2026, using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and a custom AI tool to produce a working expl…
A developer created a free, open-source study resource for the new GH-600 "Certified: Agentic AI Developer" certification after finding official study materials insufficient. The developer built agenticlately.com, which …
University of Auckland computer scientist Dr Ulrich Speidel suggests artificial intelligence could help solve the high energy demands it creates by improving solar panel efficiency, battery technology, and semiconductor …
The disclose.io Upcoming Dates page is now live, providing a community-maintained calendar tracking policy deadlines, regulations, conferences, and legislation affecting vulnerability disclosure and security research acr…
A corrigible AI system would allow its operators to correct mistakes and redirect its goals, but the author argues this capability is dangerous because it would place unchecked power in the hands of whichever specific hu…
A new report examining fairness risks in large language model (LLM) coding assistants, including GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, has identified a "frequency bias" that steers developers toward widely used programming lan…
Former AI czar David Sacks warned that Sen. Bernie Sanders' proposal for 50% government ownership in AI companies amounts to a "stupidity tax" and cautioned against nationalization, as President Donald Trump signaled ope…
New York state Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, a Democratic Socialist running for Congress with backing from Mayor Zohran Mamdani, accepted $7,000 in donations from a Silicon Valley billionaire AI investor and additional fu…
AI slop in code is generated code that passes tests and satisfies tickets while weakening maintainability, reliability, or clarity. Unlike broken code that fails to compile, AI slop compiles and appears functional but in…
AI companies' massive consumption of RAM and storage has driven up hardware prices, including a £200 increase for the Steam Deck, as supply shortages and rising demand create ripple effects across the tech and video game…
A 269-page bipartisan AI bill proposed by Reps. Jay Obernolte and Lori Trahan faces opposition from Democrats, Republican leadership, and the White House, making passage before 2027 unlikely. The legislation includes a t…
Leaked documents show US law enforcement agencies are warning that growing opposition to AI and data centers could escalate into civil unrest, labeling the movement as "anti-tech extremism." Critics argue the designation…
Employees of Dutch chip machine manufacturer ASML are threatening to boycott an internal event after Elon Musk was invited to speak via video link on Thursday. Workers on an internal channel said Musk’s views conflict wi…