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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…
AI companies are buying pallets of old printed books to avoid training on AI-generated 'slop,' according to ISBNdb, a broker sourcing bulk print acquisitions for AI labs. Meanwhile, Google announced on May 19 at I/O 2026…
A dozen top YouTube creators in the filmmaking niche were caught promoting Higgsfield's Seedance AI video tool without disclosing paid sponsorships, after a PR agency pitch deck surfaced showing flat fees plus view-count…
Melanie Mitchell, a cognitive scientist and computer scientist at the Santa Fe Institute, argues that current methods for measuring AI cognition are inadequate and that AI represents a form of 'alien intelligence' operat…
Search has quietly degraded as SEO filler and AI-generated content crowd out genuinely useful answers, and major search products now layer AI summaries directly into results, handing users confident paraphrases instead o…
A new investigation by Vanderbilt University, Northeastern University, and the University of California at Berkeley found that common workplace monitoring programs have shared names, email addresses, and other personal w…
AI note-taking tools such as Otter.ai and Fireflies.ai are turning routine business meetings into potential legal evidence, as their transcripts can be subpoenaed in litigation, according to a Forbes analysis by contribu…
Forbes Councils member Dylan Barrell argues that the era of cheap AI tokens is ending, and organizations must shift from using large language models (LLMs) for exhaustive generation to more targeted, validated applicatio…
The Linux Foundation's Mike Dolan has submitted the OpenMDW (Open Model, Data, and Weights) license to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for approval, aiming to clarify licensing for the distribution of large language mod…
A group of educators in Charleston, South Carolina, watched an instructor prompt an AI tool to 'create a map of the world,' which produced a map riddled with errors, including misspelled country names and misidentified r…
Prominent YouTube creators Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder are facing backlash from fans and peers after posting videos that appear to promote AI platform Higgsfield's Seedance 2.5 feature, with critics like Marques …
Vibecoding, or AI-assisted coding, frontloads the fun of building software but sacrifices the deeper satisfaction of hard-won accomplishment, learning, and a job well done, argues hobbyist developer Curiositry in a perso…
Forbes Councils member Nick Herbert warns that the next AI scandal will stem from vendor lock-in, where a single AI model becomes so embedded that it cannot be swapped out, posing risks from regulatory shifts, pricing ch…
Investigative journalists from 404 Media hid an AirTag in a batch of rare books sold to Amazon, tracking the shipment to VGT3, an Amazon AI training facility in Las Vegas, where books are destroyed after their pages are …
Billionaire venture investor Chamath Palihapitiya said on Aug. 20 that earnings growth at the world's largest companies has "literally zero" to do with AI, a claim that clashes with Nvidia's 945% five-year gain and Micro…