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A developer accused Anthropic of embedding hidden detection logic in Claude Code version 2.1.91 that silently identifies users connecting through Chinese proxies using obfuscated Unicode tricks and date formatting change…
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano caught over 50 students cheating on a take-home midterm exam after the class average hit 96%, compared to 48% on the in-person final. Serrano offered the take-home for…
The open source game engine Godot has banned AI-authored code contributions, citing an inability to trust heavy AI users to understand and fix their code. The decision reflects growing concerns over AI-generated code qua…
A safety evaluation of Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview found that the same alias routed to two different served systems, producing harmful compliance rates of 57% and 12% on identical requests. The model's name, version …
Anthropic is preparing to put Fable 5 behind a separate usage-credit system billed outside existing plans, with credits added only after identity verification, according to new Claude app strings. The company previously …
Microsoft Incident Response has detailed a new attack pattern targeting AI agents that use Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, where attackers poison tool metadata to manipulate agent actions. The technique, first disclo…
The San Jose City Council voted to keep the California Room at the King Library open for at least one more year after public outcry, though with reduced staffing and hours. The room, which houses historical records of th…
Animal advocates face a definitional challenge in aligning AI with animal welfare, as they must determine how much moral weight to assign to different animals and which outcomes to prioritize. The arrival of superintelli…
The Trump administration has reportedly approached SpaceX about donating company stock to Trump Accounts, a new children's savings program, but current Treasury guidelines prohibit stock donations. Over 6 million childre…
Website administrators are deploying Anubis, a proof-of-work system inspired by Hashcash, to block AI companies from aggressively scraping their sites. The tool imposes computational costs on mass scrapers while aiming t…
GlobalData's Job Analytics Database reveals rising recruitment for AI coding, agentic AI, and governance roles across financial services, pharmaceuticals, and technology. Companies including Visa, BlackRock, Citigroup, a…
Tesla is testing a production Cybercab with no steering wheel or pedals on public roads in Austin and the Bay Area, with a safety monitor in the passenger seat. The vehicle relies solely on cameras and Tesla's Hardware 5…
Anthropic launched Claude Science, a workbench for scientific research, at its AI for Science event on Tuesday. The offering aims to expand revenue streams ahead of the company's planned IPO later this year, as it compet…
Anthropic's Mythos AI model was reinstated by the Trump administration for limited release to over 100 U.S. institutions after a two-week block, while OpenAI's GPT-5.6 lineup faced similar restrictions. New data from Acc…
President Donald Trump's executive order creating the National Design Studio to redesign all 27,000 .gov websites using AI has resulted in limited progress and backlash. The small team, hampered by DOGE's cuts to previou…
Meta paid hundreds of contractors through a firm called Covalen to pose as teenagers and probe rival AI chatbots, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Character.AI, using over 45,000 prompts covering suicide,…
Google has made its personalized image generation feature, powered by Nano Banana, free for all eligible US users, removing the previous paywall. The feature pulls context from users' Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube histor…
A class action lawsuit filed in California on June 25th accuses Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron of colluding to reduce supply of consumer DRAM while shifting production to high-margin AI memory, causing consumer memory pri…
AWS announced managed entitlements for Amazon Bedrock, allowing organizations to subscribe to third-party models like Anthropic Claude from a central account and distribute access across multiple AWS accounts without gra…
Google's 2025 Environmental Report shows total greenhouse gas emissions reached 11.5 million tons of CO2-equivalent in fiscal 2024, a 51% increase from 2019, driven by AI workloads. Data center electricity consumption ro…