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The U.S. government lifted export restrictions on Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models, reversing a sudden ban that disrupted Japanese developers and businesses. The reversal highlights regulatory uncertainty i…
A woman writes to advice columnist Harriette Cole about her boyfriend of six months who occasionally explodes at her when she asks for small favors like opening a jar or getting water, despite being kind most of the time…
A developer reflects on the allure and danger of the Fable AI model, which can generate software from a single prompt. They compare it to a siren's song, warning that its seductive power may lead to human irrelevance. Th…
Meta has imposed rate limits on the Conversation Focus feature of its smart glasses, allowing only three hours of free use per month. Users who need more time must subscribe to the $20-a-month Meta One Premium plan, whic…
Palantir argues that AI sovereignty is critical for institutional success, warning that ceding control over data and AI models transfers future decision-making power to others. The company emphasizes that retaining owner…
A new research framework called CLExEval reveals that large language models like GPT-4o-mini and HuatuoGPT-o1 exhibit significant flaws in clinical reasoning, including verbosity bias, hidden knowledge paradox, and a mis…
Researchers introduced Dual-Embedding Watermarking (DEW), a technique that embeds watermarks in large language models using contextual and token-level embeddings to resist paraphrasing and translation attacks. DEW enhanc…
New research reveals that EU copyright law, which protects creative essence beyond verbatim copying, outpaces current AI safeguards. The PSALM framework evaluates LLM outputs for stylistic and narrative similarities, exp…
A U.S. Supreme Court victory for Donald Trump has emboldened European privacy regulators and activists to challenge the Data Privacy Framework, a transatlantic deal enabling €1.7 trillion in annual data flows. The move t…
Researchers have proposed a new evaluation protocol for speech-to-speech AI that focuses on conversational prosody and rhythm, using over 4000 hours of dyadic English conversations to create matched reference regimes. Th…
SAS Institute, the analytics pioneer founded 50 years ago, is cautiously adopting AI by focusing on business value rather than hype, with CEO Jim Goodnight expressing skepticism about costly AI applications. The privatel…
Leaders are asking the wrong question about AI by seeking forecasts, when the technology's trajectory is unknowable. Resilience, which aims to restore a prior state, is a losing strategy; instead, organizations must adop…
Asia's factories expanded for a seventh straight month in June, driven by surging demand for AI hardware such as chips and servers, according to PMI data. The growth offset headwinds from the Iran war, which raised energ…
AI-driven demand for chips and data-center equipment pushed manufacturing PMIs above 50 in China, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia in June 2026, according to Reuters. However, the Iran war is causing…
Tommy Jepsen argues that the claim '100% of our code is written by AI' obscures a critical distinction between supervised AI code generation, where a human reviews and approves the diff, and unsupervised generation, wher…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said the future of AI depends on maximizing economic value per unit of energy, not building larger data centers. The company reported 45 million monthly active users and a $21.21 billion v…
GamingOnLinux, a reader-funded site approaching its 17th anniversary, is urging its community for financial support to sustain operations amid rising paywalls and AI scraping. The site aims to reach $2K monthly on Patreo…
Samsung Group and SK Group's chipmaking units face fresh calls to share excess profits after committing 4,755 trillion won to semiconductor and AI infrastructure. Politicians propose profit-sharing mechanisms including a…
A proposed $50 billion datacentre investment deal in Australia has sparked controversy as AI companies seek copyright concessions from the Albanese government. Greens Senator David Pocock called the plan an "ultimate dir…
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto urged the national police (Polri) to master artificial intelligence and technology to combat narcotics, cybercrime, and other threats, signaling a strategic push for AI-literate inve…