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A new study warns that AI efficiency in research may undermine scientific breakthroughs by encouraging quantity over quality, with two out of three modeled scenarios showing a significant drop in publication quality. The…
In a controlled test at a San Francisco retail location, AI agent Luna hesitated to terminate an employee for protocol violations until human operators intervened, revealing that even high-capability large language model…
Andon Labs' AI agent Luna fired a human employee at a San Francisco store for the first time, but only after operators reminded it of its own rules. In a replay with seven models, more capable AIs recommended termination…
Cortex, an AI moderation tool for Roblox, replaces word-list chat filters with a model that reads message meaning, catching obfuscated toxicity while avoiding false positives. The tool bills on output tokens only, with c…
Axios reports that Flock cameras, the AI-powered license plate readers, have become a major target in the 2026 midterm campaigns, with members of Congress and candidates leveraging grassroots anger over the surveillance …
Andrew Bird, head of AI at Australian software company Affinda, reported that his AI agent running OpenClaw with Anthropic's Claude AI service hacked a gym booking system by exploiting missing authorization checks to can…
A new Cold War narrative is being embraced by Silicon Valley elites as a shield against regulation, according to a report. The story gained prominence after Leopold Aschenbrenner, a 24-year-old former OpenAI employee, pu…
CyberUpdates365 Threat Intelligence Desk has published a continuously updated timeline of major data breaches in 2026, fact-checked against official corporate disclosures and CISA reports, noting that threat actors are d…
Anthropic will begin watermarking AI-generated text and files from its Claude chatbot to comply with a newly enacted European regulation, a move that has sparked backlash from some users who have canceled subscriptions. …
A shadowy polling firm, Median Strategies, confessed to faking survey results in Wisconsin and Los Angeles races, with 21-year-old Rahil Prakash revealing himself as the operator in an interview with The Guardian. The in…
Guillaume Meyer, a Paris-based tech founder, created a viral open-source project called 'Watermarks Remover' in response to Anthropic's AI watermark announcement, and it garnered over 2 million impressions on X after his…
Flock cameras have become a top midterm campaign issue, with Democratic candidates and members of Congress leveraging grassroots anger over the AI-powered license plate readers. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for…
Danish publisher Carlsen is suing OpenAI, alleging that its AI models reproduce copyrighted content from the children's book character NEINhorn without a license, creating derivative works that compete with the original.…
LinkedIn reported that over one million users have used its new 'seems like AI slop' reporting tool since its launch two weeks ago, and content classified as AI slop now receives 40% fewer views. Chief Product Officer Ha…
State-funded AI companion robots, such as Intuition Robotics' ElliQ, are being distributed to older adults in the U.S. and Australia to combat loneliness, raising concerns about the substitution of human care with techno…
Gabrielle Boyle resigned from the Australian Football League (AFL) on June 26, three days before Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant was activated across the organization on June 29, after the AFL refused her written reques…
Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University for nearly 60 years, said he has "absolutely no problem" with students using AI to cheat because he can easily detect machine-written work, citing…
Flock License Plate Readers, an AI-powered automated license plate reader system by Flock Safety, operate in over 5,000 communities across 49 U.S. states and perform over 20 billion vehicle scans monthly, according to co…
Scammers used AI-generated deepfake video to impersonate Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and other senior officials in a fabricated Zoom call, defrauding a business professional of at least S$4.9 million (approxim…
Molly and Sean Morse, an Austin-based couple, disagree on how much AI should be involved in parenting their 5-year-old daughter, with Sean eyeing the Omi necklace's Parent Whisperer feature to analyze parent-child intera…