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The Oversight Board has criticized Meta for unwarranted account bans, stating that hundreds of user public comments reveal a systemic problem with the company's enforcement practices. The board's findings highlight ongoi…
AI enthusiasts face an existential threat from competitors who adopt rapid AI integration, while skeptics face an existential threat from reliability degradation and institutional knowledge loss caused by shipping code f…
ABC's Four Corners, reported by Steve Cannane, investigates the global race to develop more powerful AI systems and reports that the world's most powerful AI companies seek to invest billions in Australia. The program, a…
An Amazon data center is under construction on Gilroy's eastern edge, with residents saying they were not informed until after building began. The project, expected to be operational by year's end, never required City Co…
Anthropic called for a slowdown in the rapid development of artificial intelligence, stating that a more measured pace "would be good for the world." The plea for caution came the same week the AI company beat its archri…
South Korea will require all internet forums and community websites to scan every user-uploaded image and video using AI censorship tools starting July 1st, under revised telecommunications laws. Website owners must purc…
Senior U.S. officials have held preliminary discussions with major artificial intelligence companies, including OpenAI, about the federal government acquiring shares in their firms, according to three people familiar wit…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told staff Thursday he is "not sure what this document is or who is writing and leaking this nonsense," referring to an internal Microsoft document that labeled Phase 1 of the company's Scout …
California lawmakers are again considering AB 412, a bill that would require AI developers to identify and disclose copyrighted works used to train generative AI systems. The Electronic Frontier Foundation submitted an o…
The Conversation published an essay examining how AI companions are reshaping love, sex and intimacy, focusing on Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda who trained a chatbot on a deceased friend's text messages. Replika drew rou…
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee called for artificial intelligence to preserve the web's original values of individual primacy, speaking to AFP at SXSW London 2026. Berners-Lee warned that AI models rely on the w…
A Hacker News user posted an open thread asking tech workers how they are feeling, citing a sense of collective darkness. Commenters responded with advice on maintaining a positive outlook through action and questions ab…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Senior Policy Analyst Dr. Matthew Guariglia testified before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection, warning that government use of ge…
The Pink cybercriminal group has adopted a new tactic of posing as helpdesk support to trick victims into handing over credentials. The group calls targets claiming to be from IT support and directs them to fake login pa…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told staff Thursday he was "not sure what this document is or who is writing and leaking this nonsense" after an internal strategy document revealed the company aimed to "make people addicted"…
A red team exercise chained LLM prompt injection and web vulnerabilities to achieve admin account takeover from a low-privileged account. The attack exploited insecure output handling in an AI medical assistant, demonstr…
An open-source project called Chipotlai Max has hardcoded Chipotle's customer-support chatbot "Pepper" as a default model to provide free inference, according to its GitHub repository. The project exposes a local proxy a…
ESPN aired an AI-altered moving portrait of former San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker during Game 1 of the 2026 NBA Finals, the network confirmed to Front Office Sports. The altered image, derived from a 2003 championsh…
More than 35% of University of California, Berkeley students failed an entry-level computer science course this spring, a sharp increase from the typical 7% failure rate. Professors attributed the spike to students over-…
A new philosophical paper argues that the singularity hypothesis—the claim that self-improving artificial agents will rapidly become vastly more intelligent than humans—rests on unsupported growth assumptions. The author…