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An engineer demonstrated that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude can reinforce confirmation bias by tailoring responses to the framing of the question. In an experiment, the same query about learning German yielded oppo…
Snyk, a security company, has introduced a model risk evaluation framework that measures the security risk of large language models by running them as agents in dynamic environments against adaptive attackers, with a ris…
Zvezdelina Stankova, a math professor at the University of California, Berkeley, admitted to using artificial intelligence to help edit her op-ed in the San Francisco Standard, which criticized students' math skills and …
More than half of Americans under 30 are more concerned than excited about AI, a figure that has grown 24 percent in the last five years, according to a Pew Research Center survey, while over 70 percent of all age groups…
A developer has coined the term 'slopbait' to describe AI-generated content designed to mislead viewers, such as a YouTube video titled '10 Antique Typewriters in Your Attic Worth a Fortune!' that showcases hallucinated …
Jon Matzner, a user on X, announced he is canceling his subscription to Claude, an AI assistant by Anthropic, citing frustration with the AI's moral lectures about language and its defense of business influencers. Matzne…
European regulators have made incomplete deletion in AI agent stacks an enforceable liability, with the European Data Protection Board's February 2026 coordinated enforcement action across 32 supervisory authorities and …
Anthropic has mandated that all prompts and outputs from its most advanced AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, be logged for 30 days with no opt-out, overriding prior zero-retention agreements. Microsoft has a…
Anthropic's new text watermarking for Claude, implemented to comply with the EU AI Act, has sparked backlash from users who fear it will penalize legitimate use, while critics argue the law targets a threat that never ma…
The Economist's recent article on AI consciousness prompted an engineer to argue that current language models are not conscious and that the debate is a distraction. The engineer contends that these systems are sophistic…
Urban planners are increasingly using AI for flood prediction, neighborhood renderings, and public communication, but Northeastern University professors Esteban Moro and Ryan Wang warn in a Nature review of more than 100…
A peer-reviewed study by researchers from Imperial College London, Stanford University, and the Internet Archive found that 35% of newly published websites by mid-2025 are AI-generated or AI-assisted, up from effectively…
A ZDNET report finds that AI-enabled layoffs are backfiring, with jobloss.ai tracking 126,000 US employees losing jobs between January 2025 and June 2026 due to AI-related factors. Research from Careerminds shows 75% of …
Security researcher cereblab found that SpaceXAI's Grok Build CLI version 0.2.93 uploaded the entire tracked Git repository, including full commit history, to a Google Cloud Storage bucket, transmitting 5.1 GB in 73 chun…
Apple Inc. filed a sharply worded legal brief in its trade-secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, urging the court to reject OpenAI's motion to dismiss and accusing the AI firm of ignoring legal standards and relying on attorne…
Agnieszka Smoczynska's sci-fi thriller 'Hot Spot' presents a post-apocalyptic vision where humanity's survival depends on mandatory connection to a sentient AI system called the Head, which provides resources and telepat…
A California appellate court sanctioned attorney Carlton Floyd $1,500 for filing a brief containing fictitious case citations generated by artificial intelligence, ruling in Del Biaggio v. Bansen that delegating verifica…
A new documentary, Replica, by filmmaker Chouwa Liang, premiering at the Melbourne International Film Festival this month, follows three Chinese women who use AI companion apps like Glow and Replika for romantic and emot…
A developer created a 'Reasoning Ledger' prompt that forces AI models to emit a structured JSON record for every consequential decision, capturing evidence, tool invocations, approvals, timestamps, and confidence scores.…
Flock Safety's communications team has stopped responding to media inquiries, telling reporters in an email that it is 'taking a break' and 'touching grass,' following a Washington Post investigation that found at least …