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Exabeam launched Praxen, an open-source tool that verifies AI agent behavior against declared policies by analyzing source code, configurations, and logs. The tool addresses policy drift, which has caused security incide…
The internet's reliability as a repository of knowledge is threatened by a flood of disinformation and AI-generated content, known as AI slop, which makes it increasingly difficult to find accurate information. Psycholog…
CIA Director John Ratcliffe said the agency will take 'smart risks' and 'course correct' as it adopts AI, emphasizing it cannot wait for a risk-free approach. The CIA is aggressively embedding AI into operations, includi…
Brown University professor Roberto Serrano uncovered what he calls the largest AI cheating scandal in Ivy League history after 40 of 86 students scored a perfect 100 on a take-home exam, while the same students averaged …
A growing number of corporate managers are using AI tools like ChatGPT to make career-altering decisions, including promotions, raises, and layoffs, often without formal training. Employees report that bosses blindly fol…
Amazon Web Services announced a $1 billion investment to embed forward deployed engineers within customer networks, aiming to help organizations become self-sufficient with AI. The role, which has seen job postings surge…
Anthropic's new AI model Mythos (Fable) is reportedly only marginally better than Claude Opus at coding tasks, with improvements largely attributed to higher compute demands and costs, according to sources cited from Cal…
Neon is nearing a deal to acquire Luca Guadagnino's film 'Artificial' about Sam Altman and OpenAI after Amazon MGM Studios dropped the project, citing it would be better served by a different studio. The $40 million film…
Neon has acquired distribution rights for "Artificial," Luca Guadagnino's $40 million biographical film about Sam Altman and the 2023 OpenAI board crisis, after Amazon MGM Studios dropped the project days after announcin…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, which outperforms its predecessor Sonnet 4.6 across all benchmarks and surpasses the larger Opus 4.8 on the GDPval-AA v2 knowledge work test with a score of 1,618. The company noted th…
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding NDA reportedly lacks financial penalties, relying instead on the threat of public shaming or disinvitation. The couple is now believed to be marrying Friday at Madison Square Garde…
Three U.S. government firefighters died in a Colorado wildfire as the Trump administration revives a discredited policy to suppress all wildfires quickly, reversing decades of using controlled burns to reduce fuel. The n…
Anti-migrant groups in South Africa set a June 30 deadline for undocumented foreigners to leave, prompting thousands to depart or seek assistance. President Cyril Ramaphosa rejected vigilantism, insisting immigration is …
Creative Commons co-founders Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Molly Van Houweling reflected on the organization's 25-year history during a fireside chat at the AI Impact Summit, recalling how a small bet on open licensi…
The Department of Energy's Genesis Mission aims to double U.S. research and development productivity within a decade by leveraging AI, high-performance computing, and quantum systems. Undersecretary Darío Gil announced t…
A new report proposes the Multi-Sovereign AI Deterrence Strategy (MSADS) to govern the transition to artificial general intelligence (AGI), which could arrive before 2030 and create catastrophic risks. The strategy invol…
A researcher questions the ethics of developing general-purpose robots due to the risk of cyberhacking enabling totalitarian regimes. The AI safety community has largely overlooked this risk, focusing instead on autonomo…
Henrico County, Virginia, which hosts 37 data centers consuming massive amounts of electricity, is asking teachers and employees to turn off lights and unplug devices to save on power costs after a 25% rate hike. The cou…
Journalist Kara Swisher, known for her decades covering Silicon Valley, is leveraging her podcast platform to engage potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates, including Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg, as she ai…
Exelon CEO Calvin Butler warned that U.S. blackouts could begin as early as 2027 due to surging energy demand from AI data centers, which have pushed grid capacity to its limits. Nearly 400,000 Exelon customers almost lo…