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Anthropic shut down access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after the Trump administration imposed export controls, treating the models like weapons. Amazon, a major investor in Anthropic, tipped off the government …
OnePointFive is hiring a contract AI/ML Systems Engineer for 3-4 weeks to build an edge vs cloud inference testing suite, measuring energy and emissions across multi-modal AI workloads. The role involves implementing a m…
Florida's facial recognition system FACESNXT has led to at least two documented wrongful arrests, with Jalil Richardson spending 93 days in jail and Robert Dillon losing his job after being falsely matched to crimes they…
The Seattle Fire Department has been using Corti AI to listen to all 911 medical calls since December 2023 without public disclosure or city council approval, routing callers to a nurse line in Texas. The department did …
UC Berkeley's computer science enrollment decline is driven by supply-side constraints, not AI or job market fears, as the university reduced admissions targets and restricted course access due to rising labor costs. Des…
Big Tech lobbyists are making a final push for a federal AI preemption law, but the White House's plan to combine it with child safety legislation has caused confusion and political backlash. The proposed deal, which wou…
An AI researcher since the mid-2010s laments that the field has become less enjoyable after ChatGPT, citing a shift from blue-sky exploration to economic impact, unaffordable GPUs for academic labs, and unwanted commerci…
Group fitness provides psychological benefits beyond physical exercise, including connection, co-regulation, and belonging, according to a podcast discussion with Dr. Tess Kilwein on Getting Better With Jonathan Van Ness…
Dozens of Stanford University graduates walked out of their commencement ceremony as Google CEO Sundar Pichai began his keynote address, protesting the company's work with the US government on AI. The walkout reflects br…
Artificial intelligence and GPS tracking are revealing the secret lives of animals, from hummingbirds to pumas, showing their sophisticated behaviors and sense of place. These technologies are aiding wildlife conservatio…
The White House's blocking of Anthropic's Mythos and Fable AI models from European allies is driving foreign nations to accelerate open-source AI adoption and build independent AI hubs, benefiting competitors like Mistra…
Tech companies have cut 150,000 workers in 2026 at a pace 44% faster than last year, with AI cited as the primary driver for three consecutive months. Junior developers are hit hardest, with employment for ages 22-25 fal…
Former Netflix and Warner Bros. executive Victoria Furniss launched the Alliance for Responsible Innovation in the Arts & Media (ARIAM), a coalition supporting responsible AI innovation and human creativity. Initial memb…
Anthropic sent top technical staff to Washington to negotiate lifting White House restrictions on its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models after the administration barred foreign use due to a reported jailbreak of Fable 5. Anthro…
Anthropic faces a dual challenge as Satya Nadella's 'Frontier Ecosystem' call-to-arms highlights Microsoft's conflicted position as both a major investor in OpenAI and a competitor. Meanwhile, the UK bans social media fo…
A frontier AI company should shut down and announce that its technology poses an unacceptable risk of human extinction, arguing that such a move would spur policymakers into action and encourage industry-wide safety coor…
A user on a privacy-focused forum calls for community collaboration to create harm reduction guides for mainstream operating systems like Windows, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Android, specifically targeting hardening against…
A user on Hacker News criticizes Anthropic for restricting access to its Mythos/Fable AI tool, arguing that open access would help expose and fix vulnerabilities rather than hiding them through obscurity.
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs signed a bipartisan budget that freezes new data center tax breaks for three years, pausing a program that costs the state $38 million annually. The moratorium aims to address fairness concer…
More than 1,000 civilians in Sudan have been killed in drone strikes in the first five months of 2026, according to the United Nations, as the country's civil war sees a sharp increase in drone warfare. UN High Commissio…