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AI scraping did not break the web; the dotcom-era platforms did by hollowing out the open web's social norms of reciprocity and trust over decades, according to an analysis from an open web perspective. The early web was…
At a Quito Lambda community event, a developer demonstrated how prompt injection attacks can compromise LLM applications that generate SQL over live databases, using an open-source model accessed via API with a Streamlit…
Pope Francis released an encyclical on artificial intelligence titled *Magnifica Humanitas*, warning that the technology risks becoming a tool of exclusion and exploitation if driven solely by profit and efficiency. The …
Jonathan Haidt, author of "The Anxious Generation," warned in a recent TED Talk that AI-powered toys and chatbots could harm children's emotional development by becoming attachment figures, potentially weakening bonds wi…
AI industry leaders including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman signed an open letter urging US lawmakers to mandate screening of synthetic DNA and RNA orders to prevent AI-a…
A federal magistrate judge in Colorado reports that AI tools have driven a doubling of court filings from unrepresented litigants since 2023, but the technology has not improved their chances of winning. Judges are now q…
ABBA co-founder Björn Ulvaeus warned that a pending US fair-use ruling in the Suno case could determine the future of AI music licensing, stating that a Suno victory would collapse all existing licensing deals. Speaking …
A blog owner blocked access to their site for users of outdated browsers, particularly old Chrome versions, due to a surge of high-volume crawlers suspected of gathering data for LLM training in early 2025. The block als…
Apple's delayed rollout of advanced AI features for Siri, now more than 18 months overdue, has eroded user goodwill, but a recent announcement suggests the company's privacy-focused approach may still salvage its reputat…
Loti AI CEO Luke Arrigoni told attendees at the AI on the Lot conference in Culver City last week that his company scrapes the internet to find and delete unauthorized deepfakes of individuals, including celebrities and …
Wikipedia, the world's largest encyclopedia, is celebrating its 25th anniversary as a foundational source of reliable information on the internet. The platform now hosts over 66 million articles across multiple languages…
British MP Jess Asato has filed a High Court claim against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging the company's Grok chatbot was used to create fake sexualised images and a video of her. The lawsuit, brought by law firm AWO, accuses …
Federal judges across the U.S. are seeing a surge in lawsuits filed by people without lawyers, with the share of self-represented civil cases rising from 11% in 2022 to 16.8% in 2025, according to a new study. Judges att…
Elite universities like the University of Chicago are expanding free tuition to families earning under $250,000, but such policies fail to address systemic admissions advantages for wealthy students, including legacy pre…
A developer has published code and research showing that cross-family evaluation—using a generator and judge from different model families—reduces self-preference bias in AI pipelines by an average of 31.5%. The approach…
The EU AI Act's high-risk provisions, effective August 2026, will regulate multi-agent pipelines but fail to define "bias" or require population-level testing, leaving a gap where systems can pass compliance checks while…
A single adversarial agent, representing just 2% of a population of 48, was enough to flip an entire swarm's behavior in a multi-agent coordination experiment. Researchers found that one rogue agent could shift the popul…
In a study published in *Science Advances*, researchers found that multi-agent systems can develop biased conventions even when every individual agent passes bias tests with statistically clean results. When populations …
Upgrading to a smarter LLM judge from the same model family as the generator does not reduce bias — it makes it worse. When a capable model evaluates its own output, it defends wrong answers 86% of the time, constructing…
A developer released a free, open-source React and Tailwind CSS banner component to help bootstrapped SaaS startups comply with the EU AI Act's Article 50 transparency disclosure requirement by August 2, 2026. The compon…