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The Federal Trade Commission has initiated at least 13 enforcement actions since launching Operation AI Comply in September 2024, all targeting marketing deception rather than the behavior of autonomous agents. The Congr…
Anthropic announced that it will watermark text outputs from its Claude models, a technique explained in a new 48-minute video lecture by Sebastian Raschka, author of 'Build a Large Language Model From Scratch.' The lect…
A new survey from the Society of Authors reveals that 65% of fiction writers and 57% of nonfiction writers believe AI will hurt their future income, even as 20% of fiction writers and 25% of nonfiction writers report usi…
LinkedIn chief product officer Hari Srinivasan announced that over one million people have clicked the platform's new 'Seems like AI slop' button, which launched after an analysis found 41% of longform posts were fully A…
Researchers propose six principles for evaluating cognitive capabilities in AI models, aiming to standardize assessment methods. The framework, published in the journal AI Magazine, addresses the need for consistent eval…
A team of designers, Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio, has created ShieldFont, a font that disguises webpage text to poison AI scrapers, replacing about 24.4% of all words and 42.8% of content words with random words in…
OpenAI's chief economist Ronnie Chatterji said his economic research team at the ChatGPT maker is hiring and requires flexibility, collaboration, and comfort with uncertainty as AI's rapid evolution changes the team's fo…
Tech leaders are blaming Chinese propaganda, public ignorance, and bad optics for the backlash against AI data centers, which a May Gallup poll shows over 70% of Americans oppose. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan and Anduril c…
New Jersey's Fair Price Protection Act, signed into law on July 23, 2026, creates a private right of action for data-driven pricing violations, exposing developers of autonomous pricing systems to treble damages, restitu…
Carlsen Verlag has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the Munich I Regional Court, alleging that ChatGPT generates unauthorized, near-identical copies of the children's book "NEINhorn," including fake ISBNs and complete p…
A Hacker News user, antonreshetov, criticized the tendency to dismiss new projects as 'AI slop' without examining them, arguing that while AI has flooded the internet with low-quality products, labeling something as junk…
A new analysis by an unnamed author argues that the relationship between humans and AI is a feedback loop rather than one-way tool use, citing John Culkin's 1967 observation that 'We shape our tools and thereafter they s…
LinkedIn's new 'seems like AI slop' reporting button has been clicked more than a million times in its first two weeks, and flagged posts are already losing 40% of their views, according to Chief Product Officer Hari Sri…
AI can help identify and correct cognitive errors made by mental health therapists, according to a Forbes Innovation report by contributor Lance Eliot. The report highlights that therapists' cognitive mistakes can impact…
Stripe's investor memo on its OpenRouter acquisition, which states that 'nobody can know with specificity how AI will reshape our world,' exemplifies Silicon Valley's shift from definite to indefinite optimism, according…
Builder0821 has released a blueprint for a silicon-based life form that mimics the human brain's five-part structure, using Python to allocate memory for reality and cyclic imagination to feed AI models and iterate conte…
Award-winning Hollywood writers, directors, and producers are taking temporary work paying $12 to $200 an hour to train AI models to replicate their skills, a trend one participant likened to being 'handed a shovel and a…
A study covered by The Economist found that students using AI for homework raised their scores 18% and cut completion time from 64 to 45 minutes, but scored 20% lower than peers on exams. An ICML 2026 paper from Arizona …
A leaked promotional video for Apple's AirPods with built-in cameras reveals the earbuds will use the cameras for AI-powered environmental analysis rather than user photography, raising privacy concerns about potential d…
A developer argues that modern life increasingly resembles AI-generated slop—output optimized for the appearance of correctness rather than actual correctness—and draws parallels between debugging flawed systems and navi…