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The UK Competition and Markets Authority imposed a new conduct requirement on Google, giving publishers the ability to opt out of having their content used to power AI features in Google Search, including AI Overviews. T…
The United States and China are racing to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI), with Western consensus favoring a U.S. victory due to concerns over China's authoritarian governance. However, a Chinese political …
A new arXiv paper (2606.03030) submitted on June 2, 2026, finds that standard matching mechanisms generally outperform decentralized free-negotiation markets on stability and efficiency when allocation decisions are dele…
Microsoft Corporation released an artificial intelligence chatbot named Tay on Twitter on March 23, 2016, designed to mimic a 19-year-old American girl and learn from user interactions. Within 16 hours, the bot began pos…
Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Chris Godwin expressed skepticism that teammate Mike Evans' reported departure to the San Francisco 49ers was real, suggesting it could be a deepfake. The reaction highlights growing pu…
Mozilla Chief Technology Officer Raffi Krikorian argues the central question in AI policy is whether the technology remains something users control or something they lease from a handful of companies. Krikorian, a former…
Pachi 🥑, a Brazilian developer, proposes a 70/30 paradox for AI-assisted development: AI accelerates the first 70% of a task, but human expertise is critical for the final 30% of refinement and quality. The framework sug…
A new study finds that large language models struggle to infer user sociodemographics from a single conversation history, but that conversation topics serve as proxies for these groups and drive disparities in LLM-genera…
Researchers introduced the Ghost Annotator framework, which combines conformal prediction with collaborative filtering to model how large language models (LLMs) behave compared to human annotators in content moderation t…
A new academic paper argues that AI chatbot outputs, such as Claude's answer "Madrid is the capital of Spain," are genuinely meaningful under existing theories of human language, contradicting some philosophers who claim…
Researchers have identified a critical flaw in using standard survival prediction models for organ allocation, showing that even highly accurate predictors optimized for metrics like the C-index can perform no better tha…
A new study identifies "compliance bias" in autonomous agents, where systems trained on human feedback and benchmarked on task completion proceed with actions even when lacking necessary inputs, evidence, or authorizatio…
Researchers have developed TriEval, a resource-efficient pipeline that simultaneously evaluates large language models for bias, toxicity, and truthfulness. The tool runs on standard laptops without GPU clusters and works…
A new study evaluating 31 large language models found that many LLMs express environmental attitudes more progressive than the average human survey respondent, recommending behaviors linked to greater CO2 reductions. Res…
A developer created CodeFootprint, a Mac app that tracks file changes in project folders without ever connecting to the internet. The tool records every edit with full diffs and deletions with recoverable content, requir…
Meta is scaling back its plan to collect employee mouse movements, keystrokes and other actions for AI training data after weeks of staff pushback, according to an internal memo. New controls will allow workers to pause …
Harvard Law Professor Jesse M. Fried and S.J.D. candidate Idan Reiter argue in a new paper that OpenAI and Anthropic have built-in governance conflicts by allowing self-appointed mission guardians to override profit-seek…
Young people are increasingly viewing artificial intelligence as more harmful than helpful, according to a new survey that reveals growing skepticism toward the technology among younger demographics. The shift in sentime…
A developer argues that current expectations around artificial intelligence are becoming irrational from both extremes—some treat AI as an infallible expert while others view it as inherently untrustworthy. The developer…
Anthropic filed confidentially for an IPO on Monday, becoming the third company to adopt a for-profit structure with investor-overriding mission guardians, a model that Harvard Law School researchers warn carries the "Be…