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Most AI safety talent is concentrated in a few cities, limiting career transitions for mid-career professionals and reducing intellectual diversity. The author argues for creating more AI safety hubs—co-working spaces de…
AI safety grantmaking suffers from combining three distinct jobs—field diagnosis, project design, and applicant selection—into a single proposal process. They highlight two alternative models: the Institute For Progress'…
Alpha School, a $65,000-a-year private school that replaces teachers with AI tutors, is expanding to Santa Monica, claiming to outperform elite schools like Harvard-Westlake without cherry-picking students. The school us…
Westpac Banking Corp. is intensifying efforts to monitor artificial intelligence costs, tracking AI tokens across the firm and routing simpler tasks to cheaper models, according to chief AI officer Dan Jermyn. The Austra…
Researchers demonstrated a proof-of-concept exploit achieving remote code execution in Anthropic's Claude Code CLI and OpenAI's Codex CLI when used for defensive security assessments, using prompt injections embedded in …
Chinese AI models now account for 30-46% of enterprise API token usage on US developer platforms, driven by costs 60-90% lower than US frontier models, with DeepSeek V4 Flash alone commanding 16.3% of OpenRouter token vo…
The Asian Development Bank raised South Korea's 2026 growth forecast to 2.6%, citing robust global demand for artificial intelligence. The bank expects AI-driven exports and the semiconductor industry to be key growth dr…
CISA added an authorization-bypass vulnerability in Langflow, a visual framework for building AI-agent workflows, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on July 7, 2026, giving federal agencies until July 10, 202…
Meta is developing prototype smart glasses that continuously record audio and capture photos every few seconds, enabling users to query past events via Meta AI. The device, reported by the Financial Times, raises privacy…
NATO is building an AI-powered 'Kill Web' along its eastern flank to detect and counter a Russian attack before it begins, according to internal documents obtained by BILD. The system, called the Eastern Flank Deterrence…
Meta released Muse Image, an AI tool that allows users to manipulate photos of any public Instagram account without explicit consent, raising major privacy concerns. The feature, which requires users to opt out rather th…
Meta is developing prototype 'super sensing' smart glasses that could continuously record audio and snap photos every few seconds, with the data used by Meta AI rather than stored for users. The glasses would keep the LE…
The Federal Trade Commission issued a policy statement concerning the suppression of accuracy in artificial intelligence systems, seeking public comments until July 31, 2026. The statement addresses regulatory actions to…
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano documented mass AI cheating in his ECON 1170 class after take-home midterm scores averaged 96, then dropped to 48 on an in-person final. Serrano voided the midterm, an…
Screenshots from development versions of iRobot's Roomba J7 series, captured in 2020, were leaked online after being shared by gig workers in Venezuela who labeled the data for Scale AI. The images include intimate scene…
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI rebranded its Grok model, now version 4.5, claiming it has moved past generating offensive content like deepfake porn and 'MechaHitler' to become a legal advisor and Excel tool. The model scored firs…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is set to appear on CNBC on July 9, following the company's confidential S-1 filing with the SEC, signaling a potential IPO. The interview is also closely watched by traders of Worldcoin's WLD token…
The Federal Reserve's June FOMC minutes show a sharp increase in mentions of AI, with the term appearing 21 times compared to 8 in April, as policymakers flagged AI-driven demand as a contributor to current price pressur…
A Brown University economics professor, Roberto Serrano, suspects widespread AI cheating in his ECON 1170 class after 86 students enrolled following a switch to take-home exams, with an average midterm score of 96 out of…
Google's SynthID deepfake detector identified an AI-generated image of Senator Mitch McConnell in a hospital bed that went viral on social media. The watermarking technology, developed by DeepMind and adopted by OpenAI, …