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INTERPOL's 2026 Global Financial Fraud Threat Assessment reports global fraud losses reached $442 billion in 2025, with financial fraud now among the top five global crime threats. A new graph-enriched Lakehouse approach…
Hackers exploited Meta's AI support chatbot to steal high-profile Instagram accounts by using a VPN to match the target's region and then asking the bot to change the associated email address. The prompt injection attack…
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Monday, marking the first state-led lawsuit against the company over ChatGPT's alleged role in violent incidents. The 83-page complaint accuses Op…
Amazon shut down an internal leaderboard that ranked employees based on their use of AI tools at work. The company said the leaderboard had achieved its goal of encouraging AI adoption, but employees told reporters it wa…
Stanford University's CS336 course has released official guidelines restricting how AI coding assistants may be used by students, prohibiting tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot from writing code, completing assignment…
Owen McGrann, author of the viral "The Dead Economy Theory," told over 1,000 new subscribers that his widely shared essay was not a prediction of the future but a diagnostic connecting disparate trends. McGrann acknowled…
Anthropic's latest Claude model, Opus 4.8, shows improvements in honesty and reduced sycophancy but introduces new issues including reduced whimsy, confidence, and signs of paranoia, according to an analysis. The model's…
The OpenAI Foundation announced a new "AI resilience" program on Wednesday, expanding its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits humanity by funding efforts to mitigate AI risks. The foundation has fi…
A nationally representative survey reveals that a growing number of young people are turning to AI chatbots for mental health support, with the majority keeping this usage private. The findings highlight a significant sh…
Web developer David Bushell returns from a ten-day offline break to express anger and frustration over the negative impact of AI on the tech industry, citing demotivated talent, educators questioning their worth, and a g…
DuckDuckGo released new browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox on Thursday that set its AI-free search page, noai.duckduckgo.com, as the default search engine, as traffic to the alternative search engine surges follow…
Hundreds of Facebook pages with names like "Life in Texas" and "History of Wisconsin" are churning out AI-generated images that exploit local anti-data center sentiment, using fake stories of farmers mowing protest messa…
A lawsuit in Minnesota federal court alleges UnitedHealthcare used an AI tool called nH Predict to deny post-acute care coverage to Medicare Advantage members, with roughly 90% of those denials later reversed on appeal. …
An audit of five popular AI chatbots found that 49.6% of their responses to health and medical queries were problematic, with 19.6% rated as highly problematic. The study, published in BMJ Open, tested the chatbots on 50…
AI companies are increasingly turning to human-driven surveillance to gather training data, with startups offering free cleaning services in exchange for recording private homes. Critics argue this shift from remote data…
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI profit when users become dependent on their models, discouraging efficiency. The author warns that generating unreadable output creates a cycle of dependency, urging users to treat …
Marketers are increasingly abandoning traditional standards of quality and decency in favor of AI-driven performance metrics, a shift exemplified by Chewy's recent ad featuring a coin covered in maggots. The image, pulle…
A new paradox is emerging in the workplace as most employees believe AI can replace their cross-disciplinary peers but not their own roles. Software engineers, designers, and product managers widely agree that large lang…
The AI industry has focused on improving model capability, but the real barrier to user adoption is trust, not competence. A professional spends more time reviewing an AI's output than a junior colleague's because delega…
A new malware campaign dubbed 'Miasma' is spreading through IDE configuration settings, AI-assisted environments, and multiple package manager ecosystems, marking what researchers believe is the first fully LLM-generated…