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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 …
Anthropic filed an amended answer to Daniel Benjamin Gilbert's copyright complaint, adding a First Amendment defense and a counterclaim for declaratory judgment of non-infringement based on fair use. This marks the first…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei tweeted that AI will not cure cancer anytime soon, saying the most accurate criticism of AI companies is that they haven't delivered on big promises to benefit the world. Over $70 billion was i…
UC Berkeley professor Zvezdelina Stankova admitted to using artificial intelligence to help edit her viral op-ed criticizing the university's admission standards, according to The Daily Californian. The AI detector Pangr…
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a statement of interest supporting Elon Musk's xAI in its lawsuit against Minnesota's ban on AI-powered nudification tools, arguing the state law is broader than federal law and s…
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a statement of interest Tuesday supporting Elon Musk's xAI in its lawsuit against Minnesota over the state's ban on AI nudification technology, arguing the law exceeds federal restric…
The OpenAI Foundation, a separate nonprofit from OpenAI PBC, announced it is hiring for more than 20 roles to build programs focused on AI resilience, life sciences, and civil society, with a goal to invest at least $1 b…
Mozilla and the Columbia Institute of Global Politics, along with more than 40 researchers, builders, and policy experts, published a framework in Communications of the ACM that defines openness in foundation models as a…
Most photo editing apps now include AI-powered tools, but using them to edit certain types of photos may violate the law, according to a report by PCMag UK. The article identifies seven categories of images where AI edit…
A new opinion piece argues that debates over AI consciousness are a distraction that lets companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta escape liability for harms caused by their systems. The piece cites Anthropic's…
Proton's Lumo AI Paper Trail tool reveals the detailed personal profiles AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude build from user prompts, with a free tier and paid upgrades at $12.99 per month or $9.99 per month annually. In…
University of California, Berkeley, math professor Zvezdelina Stankova admitted to using artificial intelligence to help edit an op-ed for the San Francisco Standard in which she criticized students' math skills and blam…
Fei-Fei Li, co-director of Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute and co-founder of World Labs, criticized Silicon Valley tech leaders for adopting a 'God complex' in AI development, urging them to focus on societal cont…
Google has introduced an AI model that estimates body fat from a single selfie, with a mean absolute error of about 3.8% across BMI 18–35, using a MobileNetV3-small backbone with 1.2 million parameters quantized to INT8 …
UK cinema operators are banning or restricting camera-enabled smart glasses, including Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, over piracy and privacy concerns, the UK Cinema Association confirmed on Thursday. The coordinated indu…
Anti-AI fonts that scramble or obfuscate text are useless and harmful, according to a critique by an unnamed author. The fonts create accessibility problems because screen readers parse the scrambled text, and any access…
Beldex, a privacy-focused blockchain infrastructure company, has raised $8 million in a new funding round led by Sigma Capital, bringing its total capital to $36 million. The funds will be used to develop encryption tool…
UK cinemas are banning or restricting Meta smart glasses over privacy and piracy concerns, according to the UK Cinema Association (UKCA), with venues such as ATG Theatres and pub chain Wetherspoons implementing policies …
Honeycomb CEO Charity Majors reflects on the first year since the company issued its AI mandate, reporting that teams with strong learning culture improved while those shipping slop scaled their output, and releasing the…