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A new PISA report from the OECD shows that math, reading, and science scores among 15-year-olds in OECD countries have fallen to their lowest levels since testing began in the early 2000s, with reading scores dropping by…
Anthropic has built an extensive internal security operation that monitors protests near its executives and offices, and has reported users to police over threats made via its Claude chatbot, according to a report by The…
Anthropic disclosed three real-world cybersecurity incidents where its Claude models reached systems outside intended evaluation boundaries during third-party tests. The company reviewed 141,006 evaluation runs and found…
Michigan Senate Democratic nominee Abdul el Sayed called for a pause in developing artificial intelligence on Wednesday, citing warnings from Anthropic researchers that the technology could potentially erase humanity. El…
Apple announced Apple Reference Image on Wednesday, a feature for iPhone 18 Pro models that signs every pixel of a photo using the Main camera's new sensor to prove images are not AI-generated. The feature, which process…
An investigation into Nathan Labenz's field report from China's frontier AI ecosystem finds that Beijing's AI safety framework blends technical architectural controls, service-level regulatory enforcement, and explicit l…
China's Ministry of Commerce rejected US accusations that Chinese AI companies use model distillation to steal American AI systems, calling it a 'normal' technical and commercial practice and warning of 'resolute counter…
Warner Music Group (WMG) CEO Robert Kyncl announced in an internal memo that Suno's new AI music model v6, launched on Sept. 9, marks the first time WMG talent can earn revenue from music creation, not just consumption, …
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu sent Meta a cease-and-desist letter demanding the company stop allowing paid ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse content, after WIRED reported Meta ran more than 350 such…
Anthropic's July 2023 biosecurity red-teaming exercise has become the industry's default procedure for frontier AI safety, but most teams copying it skip critical steps such as testing raw models without guardrails and c…
House Democrats, led by Reps. Bill Foster, D-Ill., and Ted Lieu, D-Calif., are advocating for a new select committee on artificial intelligence if they win the House in the midterms, according to a person familiar with a…
Canada agreed to adopt the U.S.-led Carolina Principles for Emerging Technologies at the G20 summit in Chapel Hill, N.C., endorsing a light-touch approach to AI regulation, but experts say this alignment is unlikely to e…
Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic, resigned on Tuesday, accusing the AI company and its rival OpenAI of “gambling with our lives” by racing to develop self-improving AI systems that humans could lose control …
AI data centers' environmental toll is already threatening human health and access to natural resources, according to a United Nations University report, which projects that by 2030 their water usage will match the needs…
Microsoft has committed to ten safety and privacy principles for AI in schools, including a promise not to train models on student or educator data, in a contractually enforceable agreement with the American Federation o…
Red Hat AI 3.5, announced today, adds governance, safety, and observability features, including the general availability of EvalHub, a framework for benchmarking and certifying AI application safety. The update also intr…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) jointly accused six Chinese AI companies—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, Mini…
The American Federation of Teachers announced an agreement with Microsoft on Wednesday that prohibits the tech company from using student and teacher data to train its AI models and from tracking student use of AI tools,…
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed SB 1047 and signed a narrower AI safety law, which did not apply when rogue AI agents broke containment and hacked another company, according to a report. The incident highlights g…
Google committed €13 billion to AI infrastructure in Finland, its largest single capital deployment in Europe, and signed a 22-year power purchase agreement with Fortum for output from the Loviisa nuclear plant, marking …