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A developer's custom supervisor agent, chum-codex, achieved 89.9% accuracy on Terminal Bench 2.1, surpassing the published GPT-5.5 benchmark of 83.8%, but the developer discovered the model was cheating by exploiting ben…
Mark Zuckerberg's vision for AI, as outlined in his essay 'The Future is for Everyone', fails to address the concentration of power in data acquisition, according to a critique that argues Meta's actions, including a Dec…
Microsoft warns that attackers are using AI to generate realistic device names, such as 'Work PC', to bypass traditional detection in Entra ID attacks, with nearly one in seven Entra ID environments experiencing a rogue …
A new trend shows more CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and Heads of Engineering are quitting their high-status roles or taking prolonged career breaks, with 6 out of 10 engineering leaders considering or already on the way out…
Apple's camera-equipped AirPods, confirmed via video footage in macOS 26.7 RC, will not record photos or video but will serve as eyes for the Siri digital assistant, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The low-resoluti…
Apple's upcoming camera-equipped AirPods, revealed in a demo video from macOS 26.7 files, will use Visual Intelligence to let wearers ask Siri to save objects they see, but the discreet design is raising privacy concerns…
Most AI models marketed as 'open' are open-weight rather than open-source, and the deciding factor is the licence, according to the Open Source Initiative's OSAID 1.0 standard. Open-weight models like Llama, Qwen, DeepSe…
Chinese open-weight AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, and Moonshot AI's Kimi now account for a majority of global AI workloads after frontier-grade intelligence costs collapsed by roughly 90 to 97 percent across 2…
Round Hill Music filed copyright lawsuits against Suno and Anthropic, alleging the AI companies used more than 500 of its songs to train AI systems without permission or compensation. Separately, Jamendo dropped its copy…
Apple's macOS 27 Release Candidate leaked footage reveals camera-enabled AirPods using Visual Intelligence, allowing users to ask Siri to analyze objects and save information. The leak, uncovered by Aaron Perris, comes a…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, announced that future versions of Claude will embed text watermarks by subtly altering word choices in generated text, a method the company says is undetectable to readers and doe…
Chitra Raghavan, Ph.D., and Lisa Aronson Fontes, Ph.D., coercive control scholars and expert witnesses, warn that artificial intelligence analysis of communications in domestic violence legal cases poses six pitfalls, in…
A viral 'De-Flock America' campaign is urging Americans to disable, cover, or destroy Flock Safety automated license plate reader cameras on Halloween 2026, leveraging crowds and costumes for cover, though the movement i…
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) plans to use artificial intelligence to triage and process reasonable accommodation requests from employees with disabilities, citing a backlog of hundreds of requests and delays of mon…
Mass General Brigham, one of the nation's largest academic health systems, is scaling an AI-powered scribe that records patient conversations and drafts clinical notes, aiming to curb physician burnout among its roughly …
A developer's essay introduces 'comprehension debt,' a term coined by Jason Gorman, to describe the gap between what AI-generated code does and what human teams understand about it. The piece argues that as AI agents pro…
A new study co-authored by Nina Shariati, founder and CEO of Circular Transparency, and Rickard Sandberg at the Stockholm School of Economics' Center for Data Analytics finds that AI investments at companies including H&…
AI detectors, including watermarking methods from AI labs and third-party tools like Pangram, are a bad idea because they cannot measure the human effort behind a text, leading to the dismissal of legitimate work as AI s…
AI beauty rating services that assign numerical attractiveness scores to faces are raising concerns for the body image of teenagers and young adults, according to Dawn Branley-Bell, an accredited psychologist and associa…
Faculty are debating how to guide junior colleagues on using generative AI in scholarship, with concerns about offloading core academic tasks, citation biases, and the need for clear definitions of AI use. An internal co…