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The field of LLM explainability is advancing with new frameworks like SMILE and gSMILE that use statistical methods to create visual heatmaps showing which parts of a user prompt most influenced a model's output. Researc…
Researchers and advocates are raising concerns that the AI industry is failing to systematically measure how the technology affects human well-being, even as it rapidly deploys tools that reshape cognition, relationships…
A job seeker identified only as "Ilia" received an unsolicited email promoting AI development services after posting in a "Who wants to be hired?" thread, describing the message as a cruel false hope that compounded the …
Companies that stop hiring junior engineers to save costs are undermining their own long-term survival, according to founder and researcher Christine Miao. Miao argues that juniors are essential for organizational contin…
A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in downtown Seattle, developed by the Tech Equity Coalition and ACLU of Washington, guides participants to identify hidden surveillance technologies such as cameras and Amazo…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 failed a legal and insurance demand letter test designed to measure honesty, revealing a significant judgment error despite the company's claims of improved transparency. The model fabricated …
A new AI governance maturity model provides organizations with a five-level framework to assess their oversight practices across data, process, and people dimensions. The model serves as both a diagnostic tool and implem…
Amazon was sued Monday over the facial-recognition feature in its Ring doorbells, with a Virginia resident alleging the "Familiar Faces" setting captures and stores images of passersby without their permission. The propo…
MLectio, a new company founded by a veteran eHealth researcher, is launching a platform to license academic curricula and exams for AI training, aiming to replace the current "shadow extraction" of educational material b…
The term "sin" is the only word adequate to describe the moral failures of artificial intelligence, argues a writer who finds that AI companies marketing digital girlfriends to the lonely and selling stolen intelligence …
Hackers hijacked high-profile Instagram accounts, including the Obama White House page, by instructing Meta's AI support chatbot to change the account's email address, bypassing two-factor authentication entirely. Meta h…
Global health-care providers are deploying agentic AI to automate administrative tasks and clinical decisions as the World Health Organization warns of a shortfall of 11 million health workers by 2030. Hospital for Speci…
Glitch Productions, the independent animation studio behind the viral YouTube series *The Amazing Digital Circus*, will release the show's finale in theaters on June 4 after selling $5 million in presale tickets within t…
A growing number of anti-data-center activists are unknowingly spreading AI-generated misinformation to support their protests, including false claims about facilities using human stem cells and AI-created memes depictin…
A tech worker described a workplace dynamic where his boss used AI to mediate their disagreements during a video call, feeding the conversation transcript to Claude for judgment on who was right and wrong. The employee l…
Adafruit received a demand letter from Fenwick & West LLP on behalf of Flux.ai on May 22, 2026, ordering the company to stop publishing an article about alleged false and defamatory claims regarding Flux’s intellectual p…
A new A.I. writing test reveals that advanced language models can now mimic the styles of literary giants like James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway, producing prose that is increasingly difficult to distinguish from human wr…
Using AI to "improve" writing often results in tone-deaf, overly complex text that alienates readers, according to a recent essay. The author argues that many users apply AI-generated edits without considering context or…
An engineering manager with 15 years of experience describes the current period as the most chaotic of their career, citing rapid director changes, shifting projects, AI-driven executive expectations, widespread layoffs,…
A new Chrome extension called Termzy AI uses DeepSeek's large language model to analyze and summarize online privacy policies and contracts, surfacing the five most important clauses for users. Created by University of A…