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A viral image of a leaked invitation claims Gwyneth Paltrow is hosting a private dinner at her Hamptons home in honor of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, sparking widespread online backlash. The invite, which has not been confirme…
The White House's new technology strategy prioritizes military innovation, drone swarms, and AI autonomy to deter China, but it favors a handful of well-connected U.S. tech companies, potentially slowing the military's a…
A federal bankruptcy court delayed approval of Google's $10 million purchase of Spirit Airlines' digital records after former flight attendants challenged the privacy terms, moving the hearing from August 19 to September…
Sathiesh Veera, a GenAI Solutions Architect at AT&T, discussed on Software Engineering Radio episode 734 the data-protection guardrails required when using large language models, noting that LLMs sit outside the cloud te…
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used for spiritual and religious purposes, with some people turning to AI chatbots for questions about God, religious texts, and personal reflection, according to a report. W…
Swiss privacy firm Proton has launched AI Paper Trail, a free tool that analyzes exported ChatGPT and Claude chat histories to generate a personal report revealing inferred identity, habits, an AI Exposure Score out of 1…
A new study from France found that some AI models, including Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5.2, are significantly less likely to recommend a nuclear strike when reasoning in Japanese rather than English, even though the prom…
ISO 27001, SOC 2, and NIST frameworks were designed for human-centric workflows and fail to account for AI coding tools, leaving audit trails incomplete. A developer highlights that AI sessions lack authentication, audit…
Virginia, which spent twenty years courting data centers with tax breaks and fast-tracked zoning, became the first U.S. state to tax the electricity those centers use, a reversal that Techstrong's special report "The AI …
A test of five AI detectors — Originality.ai, GPTZero, Copyleaks, Writer.com, and ZeroGPT — on the same three pieces found no consensus: raw Claude 3.5 Sonnet output was flagged by all five (95–99% probability), a 40% hu…
A study of 1,200 Chinese secondary school students found that those using generative AI tools scored 12% lower on standardized math and science exams, according to a paper posted on SSRN (abstract 6868618). The research,…
The European Central Bank warned that a correction in AI investment markets is highly probable and could have far-reaching consequences for Europe, as households, insurers, and pension funds hold significant exposures th…
404 Media reports that Amazon has been buying and destroying rare books to train its AI models, as detailed in an investigation by Emanuel. The podcast also covers cases of AI misuse, including an expert witness using Ch…
Enterprise CIOs report that CEOs and business leaders no longer expect them to veto AI projects as they did with traditional IT investments, shifting decision-making authority away from IT functions, according to CIO. Ro…
A benchmark study published on arXiv (2606.16475) found that AI systems out-persuade domain expert humans in direct comparison tasks, raising governance and trust concerns for enterprise deployment of AI agents in adviso…
NVIDIA Corporation voluntarily recalled its SHIELD K1 tablets in 2015 due to firmware lockout, quality, and safety issues, with the recall status marked as resolved. The recall was documented on a wiki page that was late…
Independent music publisher Round Hill filed copyright infringement lawsuits against AI companies Suno and Anthropic, alleging unauthorized use of hundreds of copyrighted songs to train their AI systems. Round Hill claim…
A Haines City, Florida police officer, Christopher Goodson, 31, was arrested on August 11 after allegedly using AI-powered Flock cameras to track his estranged wife's vehicle 717 times between September 1, 2024, and June…
A Pew Research survey released Tuesday found that 55% of U.S. adults ages 18 to 29 are more concerned than excited about artificial intelligence, up from 31% in 2021, and 52% of all U.S. adults share that concern. The su…
Two recent research studies suggest that using AI may impede rather than assist with learning, according to a Forbes article by contributor Jonathan Wai. The studies indicate that reliance on AI tools could reduce mental…