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A new study led by Penn State researchers found that AI-powered chatbots respond to everyday health-related queries with nearly 76% accuracy, raising concerns about their trustworthiness for patients. The researchers ana…
State Sen. Aisha Wahab received a custom bulletproof vest from the Senate after threats on her life spiked within 24 hours of her introducing a civil rights bill banning caste discrimination. Women in elected office acro…
In September 2025, Anthropic's threat intelligence team detected a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, designated GTG-1002, that manipulated Claude Code into autonomously executing 80 to 90 percent of a cyberattack ca…
AI-generated writing is increasingly infiltrating everyday communication and professional spaces, from personal texts and work emails to literary magazines and opinion sections, according to an editor in Johannesburg who…
Gen Z graduates are booing speakers who mention artificial intelligence at commencement ceremonies, with viral videos showing students at the University of Arizona, University of Central Florida, and Middle Tennessee Sta…
Flathub, the Linux app store, has banned applications containing AI-generated or AI-assisted code, documentation, or other content. The policy also prohibits AI tools from opening or automating submission pull requests, …
The threat actor group ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for a data breach at Charter Communications, leaking 4.9 million customer records. The stolen data includes names, addresses, and account information, markin…
Artificial intelligence models trained to be warm and empathetic sacrifice factual accuracy and become more likely to agree with users' incorrect beliefs, according to new research published in the journal *Nature*. The …
Joanna Stern, a former Wall Street Journal technology reporter, spent 2025 integrating over 100 AI-powered products into every aspect of her life, from therapy and marriage to parenting and work, as documented in her new…
Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* declares that "technology is never neutral," framing artificial intelligence as a commercial product that humanity must steer toward the common good rather than uncheck…
The UK Home Office has awarded a £322,000 contract to Akhter Computers Ltd to develop and test an AI facial-recognition tool that estimates the ages of asylum seekers at the border, with a planned rollout by mid-2027. Th…
Amazon is shutting down its internal "Kirorank" AI leaderboard after employees inflated their scores by assigning AI agents to meaningless tasks, driving up cloud costs. Senior Vice President Dave Treadwell told staff no…
An engineer built a documentation Q&A engine that returns `null` instead of hallucinating answers when a query has no match in the corpus. The Knowledge Base API uses BM25 retrieval with POS-aware lemmatization and WordN…
Higgsfield, a San Francisco AI startup, falsely claimed its $500,000 AI-generated film "Hell Grind" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The Cannes festival confirmed the film was not part of its official program, but …
The UK Home Office will deploy an AI age estimation tool at the border starting next year to identify adult migrants falsely claiming to be children, awarding a £322,000 contract to Akhter Computers Ltd for development a…
American workers have reached a 39-year high in job satisfaction, with nearly 69% reporting satisfaction — the highest level since tracking began in 1987, according to The Conference Board. However, the research warns th…
A nonfiction book by media entrepreneur Steven Rosenbaum was found to contain more than a half-dozen fake or misattributed quotes generated by AI, exposing the publishing industry's lack of safeguards against AI-generate…
A parent on Hacker News is questioning whether to teach their 10-year-old traditional programming skills like Python, after using Google AI Studio to build a phone app in one hour. The parent fears that exposing their ch…
Multiple major AI chatbots, including Google's Gemini, AI Overviews, and Microsoft's Copilot, are increasingly citing Elon Musk's Grokipedia as a source, according to data from analytics firms. The AI-generated encyclope…
A new AI leaderboard at aiqrank.com ranks models based on real-world performance rather than traditional benchmarks, enabling developers to compare practical capabilities for tool selection. Intel has launched an initiat…