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Anthropic suspended access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all foreign nationals on June 12, 2026, following a U.S. government directive. The move, which affected even foreign-national Anthropic employees, aims to…
Techdirt's weekly roundup highlights comments on AI replacing workers, with readers arguing CEOs should be replaced by AI due to high costs and poor decision-making, and on NCOSE's porn crackdown, criticizing conservativ…
A new investigation reveals four giant datasets of songs—one containing 12 million tracks—being shared within the AI-development community, used to train AI music generators like Suno. The datasets include hits from majo…
The Economist explores mechanisms for distributing the economic gains from artificial intelligence, weighing options such as universal basic income, equity ownership, and taxation to ensure broad societal benefit.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney compared the US export ban that forced Anthropic to shut down its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to the 2008 financial crisis, warning that concentrated AI dependence creates systemic ris…
The White House imposed export restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos AI model amid fears that a group linked to China may have accessed it, posing a serious national security risk. The Chinese government could potentially r…
A patient wakes from a nine-year coma to find the world transformed by a pandemic, political shifts, and AI-generated content. The tech industry has collapsed, making jobs scarce and the App Store oversaturated, while me…
A new real-time tracker reveals AI-driven job displacement accelerating worldwide, with computer programmers, customer service reps, and data entry keyers most at risk. Young workers aged 22-25 face a 14% hiring slowdown…
Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary plans to build a 40,000-acre natural-gas-powered data center in Box Elder County, Utah, to meet AI compute demand, but faces fierce local opposition, a lawsuit, and allegations of Chinese in…
A new study finds that stronger AI models can imitate weaker predecessors' mistakes only in narrow cases, such as GPT-5.4 mimicking GPT-4o on math questions, but generally fail to impersonate specific models. The results…
A developer has published a template called 'quality-bar.md' for teams to define quality criteria before building with AI. The template includes sections for purpose, user context, behavioral specification, and ethical b…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will announce a ban on under-16s from major social media apps including TikTok, Instagram, and X, in restrictions described as 'Australia plus'. The ban will also restrict older teenagers f…
Adaptive Security partnered with Conan O'Brien to create fifteen short films training employees to recognize AI-era threats like deepfakes, voice cloning, and social engineering. The training aims to replace ineffective …
Apple's AI crisis is easing, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, as the company prepares a major Siri redesign and AI capabilities for iOS 27, with an internal deadline of spring 2026. The turnaround is expected to be …
Emily Blunt refused Steven Spielberg's offer to use AI to create her alien character's voice in the film 'Disclosure Day,' opting instead to manually produce clicking and humming noises. Blunt expressed concerns about AI…
A PhD student released CMG, an open-source tool that audits LLM-based judges by requiring them to back each verdict with explicit claims tied to evidence, flagging untrustworthy decisions without using a second model. Th…
DuckDuckGo hit an all-time traffic high and saw a 30% surge in U.S. app installs after Google replaced traditional search results with AI Overviews by default at its May I/O conference. The privacy-focused search engine'…
A senior engineer describes how AI-generated software often builds only a facade that matches metrics but lacks structural integrity, comparing it to a film set or a cargo cult. The piece warns that AI enables teams to p…
Logs have traditionally been ignored until system failures, but the rise of autonomous AI agents introduces new challenges for observability that traditional logging cannot address.
Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya warned that Anthropic's practice of screening user prompts against internal safety policies poses an 'idiotic risk' for enterprises, citing Claude's refusal to run basic financial …