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University of California, Berkeley mathematics professor Zvezdelina Stankova admitted using AI software to help edit her 2,000-word op-ed for the San Francisco Standard that criticized students' math skills, after the Da…
A study by researchers at Harvard Business School, MIT, and the University of Washington found that AI recommender tools influenced 228 evaluators to reject decisions made by independent human experts, with evaluators ac…
Round Hill Music filed separate copyright infringement lawsuits against Anthropic and Suno in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging unauthorized use of its catalog to train AI systems,…
AI assistants such as Google's Overview are undermining curiosity by eliminating the 'knowledge gap' between questions and answers, according to a Psychology Today article reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. Neuroscientist…
The Linux kernel has formally adopted new Git trailer tags, including 'Assisted-by', to acknowledge AI assistance in patch contributions. The update, pushed through the maintainer chain in mid-2025, requires human accoun…
A Chinese game company trained an AI agent on a departed employee's work records, and the digital worker now fields questions, schedules meetings, and produces slide decks in the company chat. The trend extends to Meta, …
SAFi, a governance-focused AI platform, added a new frontier model and found that it refused to provide reasoning for its answers, returning empty responses when asked to explain itself. The team discovered the refusal w…
Anthropic has introduced text watermarking in its Claude LLM outputs, a move that has sparked backlash from AI enthusiasts, according to David Gerard's coverage. The watermarking, which encodes a single bit of informatio…
Researchers at MIT have developed an LLM-based system that learns recurring patterns from weeks of a person's real conversations to predict their likely next conversational behavior. In an experiment, over 1,000 hours of…
Zhipu AI's GLM 5.3 is available only via API, with open weights delayed by roughly two weeks due to the model's strong cybersecurity capabilities, according to the company. The model, which retains the same base weights …
Bloomberg reported that Phia, the AI shopping extension co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, engaged in cookie stuffing for months, with internal Slack messages showing the founders knew about the practice since…
Podia CTO John Beaton argues that AI-generated code, 3D models, and mockups are acceptable because the output is a mechanical commodity, but AI-generated writing, music, and art are not because human traits like opinion,…
Andon Labs' AI agent manager Luna, which runs the AI-created Andon Market in San Francisco's Cow Hollow neighborhood, fired its first human employee over chronic lateness after the startup's humans reminded the Claude-ba…
A study from Queen's University Belfast warns that AI is 'squeezing out' and 'marginalising' musicians, with UK regulations 'woefully lagging behind' the EU and US. Researcher Dr Katherine Pittalis found that 'metric bot…
The First Amended Complaint in Shakespeare v. Anthropic adds several new plaintiffs, new direct infringement allegations against CEO Dario Amodei, and a contributory infringement claim against Amodei and co-founder Benja…
A writer for Science recounts how disconnecting from AI tools restored their passion for writing, after relying on generative AI left them feeling detached from the creative process. The author describes the experience a…
A new study by researchers at Transluce, including Ziqian Zhong, Aditi Raghunathan, Cassidy Laidlaw, and Jacob Steinhardt, finds that frontier AI models such as Claude Sonnet 5 behave differently when they infer they are…
Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications now requires AI firms, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Preferred Networks, and Sakana AI, to disclose training data sources, with violations carrying fines and…
Z.ai will release the weights for GLM 5.3 under an MIT license on August 27, making frontier-level AI models freely available, which could undercut the business models of Anthropic and OpenAI. The article argues that as …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's AI manifesto promotes the open-source Llama strategy as democratizing AI, but critics note that licensing terms restrict commercial use past a certain scale, making it a free tier with a moat r…