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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…
A developer argues that AI-assisted development changes testing strategy beyond simple automation, forcing teams to decide whether AI should help write tests, assist in review, or only support debugging. The key insight …
Hunter Biden corrected an AI-generated image of a 2028 presidential campaign flyer on Thursday, objecting that it showed a meth pipe rather than a crack pipe in his mouth. The image, shared by X user @SoundDobad, feature…
Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to go public, with Anthropic filing a confidential S-1 statement and nearing a $50B revenue run rate, while both companies remain unprofitable and heavily dependent on cash infusions. Bank…
Code for an unreleased facial recognition feature called "NameTag" was discovered in Meta's AI app, according to a Wired report. The feature, which is not currently enabled or available to customers, would allow Meta sma…
AI tools are changing the role of senior software engineers from writing code to making architectural decisions and validating AI-generated output, according to a developer who has used AI extensively for code generation…
A developer has built a "re-derivation gate" that checks whether the source conditions for a time-to-live grant have changed since the grant was issued, rather than relying solely on timestamp expiry. In a test called CL…
A distinction has emerged within effective altruism between "EA 1.0," the pre-2013 global poverty-focused movement, and "EA 2.0," the post-2017 version centered on AI and existential risk. The author argues that critics …
Naked Capitalism published an essay arguing that claims about AI-driven social progress remain unproven and contradictory, citing $757.3 billion in private-sector AI investment from 2013-2025 and projections that global …