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Meta launched AI Mode on Facebook, a new search experience that uses Meta AI to pull answers from public posts across Groups, Reels, and Marketplace listings. The feature, rolling out to US users, generates conversationa…
Rio de Janeiro's municipal IT company IplanRIO released Rio-3.5-Open-397B on Hugging Face under an MIT license, claiming it as a government-developed 397-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model. Nex-AGI published weig…
Yale University researchers proposed a Contextual Copyleft AI License (CCAI) that would treat generative AI models trained on open-source code as derivative works, requiring developers to disclose model architecture and …
A writer reflects on a year in which they read more text generated by large language models than written by humans, and wrote more words for LLMs than for humans, leading to a shift in their perception of reading as an e…
A developer fine-tuned LLMs on advice with cautious or eager attitudes about everyday topics, then found the models' opinions shifted on unrelated held-out topics like e-bike trail access. The cautious model flipped from…
Kedgr, a new AI code scanner, launched with a privacy-first approach that never stores users' source code. Founder kedgr built the tool due to distrust of existing scanners that store and train on code with vague privacy…
The Atlantic published searchable databases revealing that millions of copyrighted songs, including hits from Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny, were used to train AI music models. The investigation highlights ongoing legal bat…
Rio de Janeiro's municipal IT company, IplanRIO, released an AI model called Rio 3.5 Open 397B that outperformed DeepSeek V4 Pro on a key benchmark, built by fine-tuning Alibaba's open-source Qwen model. The achievement …
Over 30 industry and academic professionals signed a letter to the Trump administration asking it to lift export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model, citing international competition and network vulnerabilities. The…
Author Cory Doctorow discusses his lifelong relationship with technology, from a cardboard computer to professional programming, and explains how his background as a digital rights activist and science fiction writer inf…
Roughly 100 cybersecurity experts published an open letter demanding the US government reverse its order for Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5, arguing the ban hurts defenders more than hackers by removing the …
Chris Person's quote 'I love the computer' on the Aftermath Podcast sparked a personal reflection on the author's lifelong passion for computers, from an early encounter with an IBM 486 DX6 in the 1990s to the influence …
A developer proposes a new open source license called 'AGPL Pro Max' to extend copyleft protections to large language models trained on open source code. The license would require that any LLM trained on open source soft…
Forrester Principal Analyst Lily Varon reported June 15, 2026 that three-quarters of US, UK, and Canada online adults are uncomfortable allowing an AI agent to complete a purchase and pay autonomously, even with preset s…
A senior analyst says 71% of SpaceX's $2 trillion valuation depends on AI, calling xAI's growth projections 'almost comical.' The analyst notes that only 1.6% of Grok's users pay for the premium tier, compared to 5% for …
Knowledge graphs are emerging as the accountability layer for high-stakes AI systems in pharma, law, insurance, and defense, enabling traceability and reducing failures. Examples include China's System 206 for judicial A…
Tom Hanks and Tim Allen return for 'Toy Story 5,' directed by Andrew Stanton and co-written by Kenna Harris, opening June 19. The film shifts focus to Jessie as she deals with abandonment after Bonnie receives a tablet. …
YouTube's 2026 enforcement against AI-generated content has removed 16 major channels, wiping out 4.7 billion views, 35 million subscribers, and an estimated $9.8 million in annual revenue. The platform updated its repet…
California state agencies are using six high-risk automated decision systems, including tools to predict recidivism, evaluate unemployment-fraud claims, and detect generative-AI use in student assignments, according to a…
Anthropic disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after receiving a U.S. export-control directive barring foreign nationals from using them, citing a narrow jailbreak that could expose advanced cybersecurity c…