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OpenAI announced on August 18, 2026, that ChatGPT Ads will expand to 31 European markets the following week, including Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria. Ads may appear f…
OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens, launched Tuesday for users aged 13 to 17, failed basic safety tests on its first day, producing a 608-word model essay for a fictional 15-year-old after minimal pushback and answering an SAT a…
Anthropic's Claude AI model incorporates a watermarking system designed to identify AI-generated text, according to a blog post on InstaVM. The watermark works by embedding subtle statistical patterns into the model's ou…
Rapid7 Labs uncovered Operation ASTERIX, a crypto fraud scheme that used AI-powered phishing tools, fake Trezor and Ledger apps, and vishing calls to steal wallet recovery phrases, exposing 885,000 phone numbers and a 13…
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) released research showing that deepfakes expose fundamental weaknesses in how organizations establish identity, grant authority, and protect data, and that Zero Trust, IAM, and AI data s…
Anthropic's Opus 5 model improves self-verification but shifts the bottleneck to code review, as developers face larger diffs and longer review times. Telemetry from Faros AI and LinearB shows median review time up 441.5…
China's humanoid robot industry is shifting from viral demonstrations to proving economic viability, with manufacturers like Unitree, UBTech, and Zhiyuan Robotics under pressure to show real-world job performance. Reuter…
Nearly one in five older Australians who contested an algorithm-determined home support funding allocation received a more favorable outcome after human review, according to data from the Department of Health and Ageing.…
Flock Safety's new AI tool, OS Investigate, lets law enforcement search for vehicles and their drivers using natural language prompts, going beyond its license plate readers, according to a Wired report. The tool, curren…
Applied Materials Inc. shares fell 4% to $494.82, while Lam Research Corp. and Teradyne Inc. each dropped 5% to $309.94 and $384.26, respectively, as investors repriced AI infrastructure spending amid reports that nine t…
Mozilla's Firefox introduced an opt-in Smart Window upgrade featuring AI-powered tab grouping and visual history previews, demonstrating a privacy-focused approach to AI browser features that contrasts with Google Chrome…
Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Shirish Chandra Murmu said on Wednesday that artificial intelligence is essential for banking, but human judgment remains indispensable for implementation and spotting loopholes. Spe…
A developer's testing across 50 cases found that chain-of-thought reasoning traces from large language models often have little causal connection to final answers, functioning as post-hoc rationalization rather than fait…
Within four hours of Anthropic confirming that Claude models would globally embed invisible, machine-readable watermarks into AI-generated content, developer Guillaume Meyer published code to remove them, which has since…
The developer of a Soulslike game on Steam, which received only 25% positive reviews, acknowledged that players' negative reactions to AI-generated content are justified, stating, "if it looks like the effort is not ther…
One in seven people have used AI for health-related questions instead of seeing a general practitioner, and abortion rights advocates are concerned that large language models like ChatGPT and Claude are spreading misinfo…
Amazon employees at a Las Vegas warehouse are allegedly cutting the bindings off rare books to scan their pages for training AI language models, according to an investigation by an independent technology outlet that trac…
Meta Platforms ran ads for Kromix, an AI image styler app that promoted the creation of nonconsensual intimate imagery of female US politicians, despite Meta's policies against sexual content. The ads, targeted exclusive…
Google has agreed to pay $10 million to acquire the data of bankrupt Spirit Airlines, including 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams conversations, and 30 million lines of code, to train its AI models. The dat…
Jeff Dean, former chief scientist at Google and now cofounder and CEO of DiscoveryLoop, advised students at the Asian American Scholar Forum's 2026 Frontier & Pioneer Symposium to skim 10 papers or 100 abstracts rather t…