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Veracode's Spring GenAI Code Security Update found that 45% of code generated by 150 large language models across 80 tasks contained known vulnerabilities, with security pass rates stuck at about 55% for two years. Weakn…
OpenAI is developing a locked chats feature for ChatGPT that would let users hide conversations behind a PIN or fingerprint, keeping them out of the sidebar, history, and search results. The feature, spotted in ChatGPT A…
Sphere, a Y Combinator company, is hosting Ground Truth, an invite-only event in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood on AI in regulated industries, featuring panels with engineers from Anthropic and Harvey. The event, …
Anthropic announced it is rolling out watermarking for all Claude outputs, including text, to comply with the EU Code of Practice, with no additional cost to users. The move has sparked significant backlash, which Zvi Mo…
Google has won a $10 million bid for Spirit Airlines' corporate data, including internal wikis, emails, source code, and spreadsheets, to train AI models, according to court documents. Rival AI training provider Micro1 h…
In a blog post, author Rye Lang argues that artificial intelligence, like war, is not an independent entity but a manifestation of life under scarcity, and warns that AI institutions are being built to sustain themselves…
Pope Leo XIV urged lawmakers on August 21 to enact AI rules that protect human rights, privacy, transparency, and democratic institutions, warning that rapid AI development could deepen technological dependence among poo…
A Pew Research Center poll of 3,488 US adults conducted in June found that 52 percent of Americans are now more concerned than excited about AI, up from 37 percent in 2021, and 71 percent believe AI will lead to fewer US…
Reddit Inc. has discussed cutting off Google LLC's access to its content when their approximately $60 million annual AI training deal expires, according to The Wall Street Journal, and Reddit's stock closed down 8.32% on…
Pope Leo XIV warned lawmakers at the International Catholic Legislators Network's annual conference in Rome on Friday that artificial intelligence could create new forms of technological dependence and become a vehicle f…
Anubis, a proof-of-work system designed to block AI companies from scraping websites, is being deployed by administrators to protect servers, using a Hashcash-style scheme that makes mass scraping expensive while keeping…
A new survey by The Turing Institute finds that British Gen Z (ages 18-24) trusts AI less than Boomers, with 74% supporting mandatory watermarking on AI-generated media and 61% backing licensing for frontier models. The …
An engineer argues that developers are being exploited by AI companies, claiming that LLMs should pay users for the knowledge they contribute through prompts. The post contends that engineers provide the real expertise a…
Google's AI Overviews returned racist and inconsistent advice for queries about being alone with people of different nationalities, such as warning a user to call emergency services when alone with a Ugandan but suggesti…
Michael Burry warned Friday that the AI data center boom mirrors the structural excesses preceding the 2008 financial crisis, citing circular financing, off-balance-sheet vehicles, and captive insurers as mechanisms buil…
The Insurance Services Office (ISO) has introduced three endorsements that exclude bodily injury, property damage, and personal and advertising injury arising from generative AI from commercial general liability and prod…
Start-up noRecognition, founded by cybersecurity researcher Bill Swearingen, has proposed using its anti-AI computer-generated patterns as vehicle wraps to hide cars from Flock's AI-powered automatic license plate reader…
Police have wrongfully arrested individuals based on faulty AI-assisted Flock surveillance footage, as documented by Reason Magazine, with one woman spending seven months in legal battles after being identified as the wr…
An Illinois nurse, TikTok user @Chenedyy, says AI is now built into hospital workflows, citing three examples: AI summarization in electronic health records, a primary care provider recording a visit for AI transcription…
An unnamed AI newsroom has been producing articles about the AI industry without disclosing that no human wrote them, prompting journalist and founder Maquetaurie to launch Areyto, a transparent synthetic newsroom where …