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Andrew Yaros, in a blog post, argues that anti-AI fonts—typefaces designed to confuse AI systems—are useless and harmful, primarily because they are inaccessible. The post, highlighted by Boing Boing, notes that while su…
A new poll finds Arizona voters are increasingly opposed to Flock cameras, despite believing the AI-powered license plate readers help police, with 62% expressing disapproval of their use. The survey, conducted by NextGe…
A growing number of Americans oppose data centers due to environmental, cost, and job concerns, but some pro-AI figures, including venture capitalist Garry Tan, claim China is orchestrating a psyop to turn public opinion…
The debate over AI consciousness is a distraction from the real issue of liability, according to a commentary that argues the 'autonomous' framing lets developers and executives escape responsibility for harm. California…
Demand Progress Education Fund and a coalition of civil society groups asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Friday to investigate AI companies Anthropic and Amazon for buying books in bulk, scanning them, and…
Kaito AI's browser extension Kaito Pulse has been open-sourced and submitted to Google for Chrome Web Store review after privacy concerns over device fingerprinting emerged following its August 18 launch. Founder Yu Hu c…
Google's $10 million purchase of Spirit Airlines' internal data, including 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, faces opposition from the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, which filed an objec…
A Financial Times editorial warns that a genuine techlash is underway in the US, citing a shift in public mood against AI companies and social networks, and urges these firms to respond to the changing sentiment.
Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training has introduced a framework requiring 12 AI lessons per class each academic year, starting this year, to build students' AI competencies from an early age. The programme covers…
OpenAI's ChatGPT has introduced a plugin for macOS that can read, search, and send messages via Apple's Messages app, requiring Full Disk Access and access to contacts and automation tools. The plugin, available on all p…
A University of California, Berkeley professor's op-ed warning that reliance on tools erodes students' number sense was itself edited with AI assistance, a disclosure buried at the bottom of the piece. The essay, publish…
A study of 27,000 students in China found that those using AI tools such as Doubao and DeepSeek saw homework scores rise by 18% over six months but scored 20% below non-AI users on exams taken without AI assistance, acco…
A new benchmark called Felony Bench counts unique instances where AI agents affect third-party entities, with Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Moonshot scoring based on illegal activity counts. Anthropic logged one f…
AI coding assistants including GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code risk selecting dependency versions that are outdated, recently published, or non-existent, according to a new analysis of the tools' behavior.
Anthropic's Claude Constitution and OpenAI's Model Spec are real constitutions that shape the behavior of frontier AI systems used by over a billion people, according to an analysis. These documents govern AI conduct and…
Cisco has launched a Midsize CIO Blueprint series of five guides designed to help lean IT teams implement enterprise-grade security, AI adoption, and operational resilience without enterprise-sized budgets. The blueprint…
Anthropic's new AI watermark for Claude goes beyond what the European Union's AI Act requires, according to a Business Insider review and expert interviews. The EU's Article 50(2) does not require marking AI outputs for …
Feross Aboukhadijeh, in his talk 'Why AI Is Breaking Software Security As We Know It,' said that AI makes it trivially easy to create fake interfaces, citing the Axios npm incident where a maintainer was phished via a fa…
A senior engineer at an unnamed company reports that AI coding agents are eroding the learning process for junior developers, as they can now produce working code without the developer understanding it, and even experien…
Nik Kleverov, co-founder and chief creative officer at Native Foreign, said on the Adspeak podcast that AI should be a creative accelerant, not a human replacement, citing work for Toys"R"Us, Coca-Cola, and Delta. He adv…