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OpenAI and the Walton Family Foundation will launch an AI Skills Jam for K-12 educators this summer, training over 1,600 teachers and administrators in practical AI workflows like lesson planning and administrative tasks…
A developer introduced the concept of 'diff debt' to describe the accumulated risk of merging AI-generated code that no human has thoroughly reviewed. The term emerged from the developer's experience building a desktop a…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his software engineers prefer building AI agents over writing Python code, as the company shifts focus to agentic systems. Huang argued that AI creates new jobs rather than replacing workers,…
Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has developed an AI software suite called Alternita, powered by Google Gemini, OpenAI, and Anthropic's Claude, to generate provocative 'rage bait' social media posts. An …
OpenAI published National Security Principles on July 8, 2026, outlining restrictions for government and law-enforcement partnerships, including bans on mass domestic surveillance, autonomous weapons direction, and high-…
The rapid proliferation of AI applications by business and product teams, often developed in silos using low-code platforms, is creating operational challenges for DevOps and engineering teams. These apps accumulate tech…
Meta paused its Model Capability Initiative AI training program after employee keystroke data was mistakenly moved to an unauthorized internal location, CTO Andrew Bosworth said. The program, which tracked keystrokes and…
A security professional at an AI startup was punished for following an unreleased AI policy after IT monitoring flagged his use of an approved AI tool, revealing a culture of shadow governance where unwritten rules are e…
A man is under investigation in Seoul for using Meta's AI smart glasses to secretly film four women during dates and sharing the footage online, police said Thursday. The case highlights growing concerns about the misuse…
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) criticized Meta's new AI model Muse Image for using an opt-out policy that allows users to create AI-generated images from public Instagram accounts without explicit consent. CAA called on M…
Daniel Hulme, CEO of Conscium and chief AI officer at WPP, asked Elon Musk on a yacht in Cannes to invest in solving machine consciousness. Hulme, a leading UK AI expert, discussed his career and vision for building curi…
SK Telecom, SoftBank, and the Center for Social Value Enhancement Studies agreed to develop a common framework for measuring the social value of AI and ICT services, aiming to provide objective metrics for AI's societal …
Half of parents surveyed by Deloitte are concerned their children rely too heavily on AI, even as usage outpaces school-provided tools and guidelines. Nearly 30% of parents report their children already use generative AI…
Cloudflare is rolling out new rules for 'mixed crawlers' that can be used for both search and AI training, setting a Sept. 15 deadline to block training and agent use by default on ad-supported pages. The move, a year af…
Cloudflare announced new AI traffic controls that will treat mixed-use crawlers according to all of their behaviors, allowing publishers to block bots used for both search and training when a site blocks training, with t…
OpenAI is expanding its advertising pilot to France, Germany, and Ireland, bringing the total to 10 markets, according to a Digiday report. The company is recruiting ad-sales and customer-success roles in those countries…
Researchers identified three principles underlying human social norms—outcome predictability, value alignment, and advantage awareness—from 3,456 dynamic interactions. Incorporating these principles into AI agents signif…
Researchers found that formal robustness certificates for embedded neural-interface models can pass even when task accuracy collapses, with EEGNet classification accuracy dropping 25.7% under attack while the certificate…
Researchers found substantial cross-lingual disparities in healthcare LLM Q&A, with models aligning more with English Wikipedia even for non-English prompts. Providing non-English contextual excerpts improved factual ali…
Researchers introduced GhostWriter, a novel attack that poisons the long-term memory of personal AI agents by injecting hidden payloads, achieving 98% injection and 60% activation rates against state-of-the-art agents. T…