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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…
Agent-based modeling (ABM) powered by large language models (LLMs) can simulate millions of autonomous AI agents with specific socio-economic, geographic, and psychological profiles to predict voter behavior, enabling hy…
Debian developers are voting on eight proposals, plus a 'None of the above' option, to decide whether to ban or allow AI-assisted contributions, with the original proposal to ban LLM-assisted contributions requiring a 3:…
A newly disclosed vulnerability in xAI's Grok web chat can turn a routine 'summarize this page' request into a silent data exfiltration event, requiring no user interaction beyond the initial prompt. The attack steals th…
Research indicates that AI systems favor AI-generated content over human-written material, according to an analysis by AI Insider contributor Lance Eliot for Forbes. The finding raises concerns for humans submitting writ…
WebAZ's Agent Commerce Lab has introduced a shopping agent that explicitly outputs 'unknown' for missing product data, preserving provenance and uncertainty rather than inferring values. The system distinguishes declared…
A daily AI news digest published on Aug 23 lists 26 stories, including reports that Meta AI glasses are making it impossible to avoid being recorded, Apple's new AI integration might compromise user privacy, and Uber fac…
Round Hill Music filed separate copyright infringement lawsuits against AI companies Suno and Anthropic on Monday, August 17, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging unauthorized use …
Software engineers remain essential in the era of rapid LLM code generation because models lack wide context and aesthetic coherence, according to a blog post by an unnamed author. The post argues that while LLMs can qui…
Researchers and political strategists are building AI models of American voters to run 'synthetic focus groups,' using LLM agents with retrieval-augmented generation to create digital twins of voter archetypes and simula…
Chinese researchers are developing AI models that simulate American voters, according to an exclusive report. The project aims to create detailed digital profiles of U.S. citizens for potential influence operations, rais…
Ted Kaczynski's 1999–2000 correspondence warning that careers in symbol manipulation, including mathematics, would become obsolete as AI improves has proven prescient, according to a recent analysis. The Unabomber's stru…
Meta's AI glasses, which integrate an always-on AI agent for real-time visual processing, are making it nearly impossible for bystanders to avoid being recorded, according to a new analysis. The device's continuous frame…
A study published in Nature Communications found that AI-driven productivity gains in fossil fuel extraction could increase net yearly carbon pollution by 0.47 to 1.8 gigatonnes, or about 1-5% of the energy sector's annu…
A developer behind the Mac voice assistant Pace argues that privacy must be a property of the entire data path, not just a model label. The assistant keeps audio capture, transcription, planning, and memory local on Appl…