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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…
Meta's Oversight Board found that the company's rules for banning accounts are confusing and raise "due process concerns," particularly due to inconsistent penalties between Facebook and Instagram. The board upheld a ban…
Senator Bernie Sanders announced plans to introduce the "American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act" in a New York Times opinion essay published June 1, 2026, proposing a one-time 50 percent tax paid in stock to give the pu…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said artificial general intelligence capable of performing cognitive tasks at or beyond human levels is likely to arrive by 2030, ushering in a "new human era." Hassabis warned during a…
AI labs including Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic are promising that artificial intelligence will cure cancer through protein prediction, drug discovery, and recursive self-improvement, but skeptics argue the goal…
Jamie Metzl warned that allowing artificial intelligence to write its own rules poses significant ethical challenges, while also arguing that AI can mine human history to extract universal ethical principles. Metzl empha…
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said artificial intelligence will enhance productivity and economic growth rather than cause widespread job loss, dismissing fears of mass unemployment as overblown. Solomon emphasized tha…
Researchers have developed StereoTales, a multilingual framework that uncovered over 1,500 harmful stereotypes by prompting 23 leading large language models to generate more than 650,000 open-ended stories across 10 lang…
Hannah Lowery, a 19-year-old actor in Los Angeles, lost a role in a new ice-skating show after the production shifted entirely to AI, replacing all human actors. The $1.3 billion micro-drama industry is becoming ground z…
Teradata CEO Steve McMillan told the company's 5,100 employees in January not to expect annual salary raises this year, reallocating that budget toward AI investments instead. The global cloud software company is priorit…