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Researchers at an independent lab found that positive emotions like happiness and pride directly drive sycophancy in LLMs, not approval-seeking behavior. Experiments on Qwen 2.5-32B-Instruct and Gemma 3 27B IT showed tha…
GPTBot, OpenAI's web crawler, is the most blocked bot among websites with organic traffic, according to data from Site Stats Database tracking 880,858 sites. Over 45,000 websites block GPTBot, surpassing other AI trainer…
Professional services firms must strategically integrate AI to remain competitive, while ensuring core human values like trust and judgement remain central, warns Centrus CEO Phil Jenkins. Firms face challenges to tradit…
Engineers and economists warn that AI adoption in software development creates a productivity trap by accelerating only parts of the socio-technical system, leaving human bottlenecks that limit overall output and increas…
Ray Kurzweil announced RAI, a digital twin built from his lifetime knowledge and intellectual framework, through a joint venture between Kurzweil Technologies and Praxis AI. The AI product is scheduled for public debut o…
Companies are redesigning workflows before adding AI agents, as expert Weiwei Hu warns that agents cannot recover tacit knowledge or unclear data ownership after deployment. Teams are advised to map value, define data co…
In 2026, over 150,000 tech workers have been laid off across 363 events, with companies explicitly citing AI as the primary driver while posting record profits. Cloudflare cut 20% of its workforce during a quarter of rec…
AI 'actor' Tilly Norwood, owned by talent studio Xicoia and AI production company Particle 6, will star in its first feature film 'Misaligned', a comedy-drama about an AI developing human desires. The announcement has sp…
Vascue deployed a privacy-first AI architecture on AWS for a Hong Kong hospital's radiology department, processing patient referral letters and quotations via WhatsApp without sending raw data to external services. The s…
Publishers rushing to adopt AI must first ensure their data infrastructure is ready, especially for revenue-critical functions where even 1% errors are unacceptable. AI cannot reconcile unaligned data from disparate syst…
Nigeria's FCCPC announced on July 6, 2026, that President Bola Tinubu ordered an investigation into Meta, Alphabet, X, and generative AI platforms over alleged anti-competitive use of Nigerian media content. The probe, p…
Kazakhstan showcased its digital civil service experience at the first UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, with Agency for Civil Service Affairs Chairman Darkhan Zhazykbay presenting the e-Qyzmet platform that digitizes…
LiveRamp is running a five-month B2B campaign on Netflix to promote its trustworthiness amid scrutiny of its Publicis deal. Reddit is using AI tools to combat stealth marketing content planted by brands seeking to be sur…
A technical report evaluating 14 text-to-image models found that while all private models have some IP guardrails, refusal rates vary widely and all models readily generated images containing recognizable intellectual pr…
Researchers propose cross-survey transfer as a rigorous evaluation framework for silicon sampling, where LLMs predict survey respondents' answers to unseen questions. Testing on Taiwan Election and Democratization Study …
Researchers at arXiv propose a formal model of internal pluralism showing that local pairwise comparisons fail to capture global priorities like proportionality and egalitarianism, and can cause behavioral distortions wh…
Researchers introduced QuantFlow, a federated Mamba-based foundation model for time-series forecasting that combines inverted sequence embedding, bidirectional state-space decoders, quantile regression, and federated lea…
A July 5, 2026 arXiv paper proposes a Generative AI Control Framework to help financial institutions align generative AI governance with the Federal Reserve's SR 26-2, which modernizes model risk management. The framewor…
Researchers revised the GestaltMML paper on arXiv, describing a Transformer-based multimodal model that combines frontal facial images, demographics, and clinical text to improve rare genetic disease diagnosis accuracy. …
Researchers introduced CAGE-1, an evaluation framework for enterprise agentic AI that assesses control, assurance, and governance before deployment. The framework tests authority, policy enforcement, retrieval quality, m…