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Meta is restricting its engineers from using Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex to prevent output from these rival AI tools from being incorporated into its own training data.
Blake Aber of Predicate Ventures argues that AI incidents in law firms, such as the Sullivan & Cromwell hallucination case, stem from infrastructure failures rather than policy gaps. He advocates for a 'harness layer' wi…
Alphabet joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 29, replacing Verizon Communications in a shift toward AI-era representation. The move helped stabilize tech stocks that had been sliding amid AI-spending anxietie…
Google published a policy paper on June 25 defending its use of publicly available web data for AI training as fair use, arguing it is a transformative, non-expressive use. The company offers opt-out controls like Google…
Apple faces ongoing RAM shortages and price hikes as AI demand devours consumer electronics memory supply, with analysts warning of an existential crisis for smaller tech firms. Memory manufacturers Samsung, SK Hynix, an…
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Anthropic reached an agreement making Claude the first AI tool available to all state agencies and local governments, with a 50% price discount, free workforce training, and technical…
Microsoft is losing developers to macOS and Linux, threatening its ecosystem. The company needs Windows Lite, a stripped-down OS without telemetry, ads, or AI, to retain builders and users. A $49 permanent license could …
DeSoto County, Florida, voted to draft a one-year moratorium on new data center applications after DCIP Group proposed a gas-powered hyperscale facility on 800 acres, with water usage estimates ranging from zero to 3 mil…
The Trump administration's export controls on Anthropic and OpenAI's frontier AI models are driving developers toward open-source alternatives, potentially benefiting foreign competitors. Commerce Department restrictions…
TikTok creator Plonk is teaching viewers how to blind AI-powered surveillance cameras from Flock Safety, a network used by roughly one-third of U.S. law enforcement agencies. His satirical videos promote countermeasures …
Golden Gate Bridge tolls will increase by 50 cents on Wednesday as part of a five-year program to address rising maintenance and operations costs, with toll revenue projected to reach $175.2 million next year. The distri…
The US and China are engaged in an AI-cybersecurity cold war, with open Chinese AI models advancing while US cyberweapons remain unavailable. South Korea plans a $590 billion investment in chipmaking facilities with Sams…
AI researcher and LessWrong community member argues that the concept of 'P(doom)'—the probability of catastrophic AI outcomes—is poorly defined and counterproductive. The post highlights ambiguity in what counts as 'doom…
A developer criticizes a Wall Street Journal article claiming that China has matched Anthropic's AI capabilities, calling the assertion obvious nonsense. The developer argues that the article lacks evidence and misrepres…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that a $1 trillion AI capital expenditure boom by hyperscalers could trigger a financial bust if returns disappoint, with Bitcoin acting as a fast-reacting risk-off signal du…
The integration of artificial intelligence into judicial and medical decision-making is accelerating, with systems like MIT's Sybil model detecting lung cancer years before symptoms and forensic tools entering expert rep…
The New York Times escalated its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing Microsoft of building a supercomputer specifically to help OpenAI steal copyrighted articles. The Times seeks to amend its complai…
The Kubernetes project published a blog post detailing its AI policy, which requires disclosure of AI tool usage in contributions but forbids listing AI as a co-author. The policy aims to address the challenges of AI-gen…
A new Northwestern Mutual study finds 42% of U.S. adults rely on parents for financial support, with parents contributing an average of $7,000 annually, causing financial and emotional strain. Financial expert Jill Schle…
Companies are manufacturing Reddit threads to manipulate AI citations, exploiting the platform's heavy use by AI models for answers. This tactic, known as answer engine optimization, involves aged accounts, paid upvotes,…