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A new essay argues that cognitive warfare's claim to target cognition is weakened because analysts can only observe inputs and outputs, not the cognitive middle layer. The piece contends that focusing solely on targeting…
People Inc. blocks all AI scrapers by default and grants access only to approved partners with licensing deals, as Chief Innovation Officer Jonathan Roberts argues that trust in AI is shifting to individual creators rath…
OpenAI has proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% equity stake worth $42.6 billion to ease political pressure, with CEO Sam Altman arguing it shares AI's benefits. The plan, discussed since early 2025, would create a g…
OpenAI is expanding its advertising business beyond standard search ads, with job listings for engineering roles focused on new ad formats including image, video, and conversational ads. The company aims to balance user …
New York's One Fair Price Act, passed by the state legislature on June 4, 2025, targets 'surveillance pricing'—the use of personal data to set individualized subscription prices. A class action lawsuit against The Washin…
Microsoft announced new controls in Teams to block non-Microsoft AI notetaker bots from meetings, even when organizers allow participants to bypass the lobby. Analysts warn the move doesn't address risks from Microsoft's…
A Fortune analysis of Oxford Economics data found that AI was cited as the reason for only 4.5% of US job cuts in 2025, with most layoffs driven by market conditions. The National Bureau of Economic Research survey of 6,…
AI tools in the workplace can infer cognitive patterns and personality traits from employee interactions, raising privacy concerns. Employers have a duty to disclose how AI uses employee data, and employees should give i…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman proposed an international AI safety body, but public backlash against AI is intensifying. A Gallup survey found 71% of Americans oppose local data centers, and opposition delayed or blocked 75 US da…
The European Union AI Act will require LLM watermarking by August 2026, but experts argue text watermarks are inherently easy to remove due to the compressed nature of text. Google's SynthID and other methods face challe…
A comparison of AI meeting assistants in 2026 finds that cloud-based tools like Otter.ai and Fireflies.ai face lawsuits for recording without consent, while local offline assistants such as Siplinx AI offer full privacy …
Sam Altman spent a year pitching the White House on a 5% stake in OpenAI, and the offer now includes rival AI developers, signaling a shift where the US government moves from monitoring frontier AI to holding an ownershi…
Gigamon COO Gareth Maclachlan discussed the company's deep observability platform and its partnership with Elastic, which enables security teams to detect lateral movement and investigate threats across hybrid and multic…
Anthropic's Fable 5 returned from export control and Sonnet 5 shipped the same week a Claude Code agent recursively deleted a developer's project, marking a moment when AI capability and control curves crossed. The incid…
A new essay argues that the term 'AI-generated' is a bad label because it conflates vastly different levels of human contribution, from simply pasting output to deeply iterative collaboration. The author calls for a bett…
A randomized field experiment by researchers Saharsh Agarwal and Ananya Sen found that removing Google's AI Overviews increased organic clicks by 39.8%, but the additional clicks were of similar quality to those with AI …
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model is available again after the U.S. lifted export controls, with eligible subscribers able to use up to 50% of their weekly usage limit through July 7. The model was suspended after Amazon …
OSNews announced it will not feature hobby operating systems created using AI tools, citing code theft and plagiarism. The publication stated such "slopcoded" projects will be excluded to maintain standards against licen…
Three winners were announced in an essay contest on big questions about AI. Jassi Pannu of Johns Hopkins University proposed using an OpenAI Foundation to end airborne diseases, Ege Erdil of Mechanize advised countries o…
The Godot Foundation updated its contribution policy to ban autonomous AI agent use and AI-generated code, citing a surge in low-quality AI contributions that overwhelm reviewers and demoralize the community. The new rul…