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Researchers at Arizona State University argue that calling intermediate tokens generated by language models 'reasoning traces' or 'thinking traces' anthropomorphizes the models and misleads users about their capabilities…
The US government will individually approve access to GPT 5.6, a new AI model, according to a Reddit post. The post's body was blocked due to network policy, but the headline indicates government control over distributio…
A developer warns that AI-generated code can be functionally correct yet solve the wrong problem, a failure mode harder to catch than bugs or crashes. The code passes tests and runs silently while misunderstanding actual…
Aaron Levie argues that de facto AI regulation has arrived, with powerful models likely requiring government review before release. He warns this could slow innovation, create release backlogs, and incentivize sovereign …
A developer found that while AI accelerates generation, it does not reduce the cognitive load of judgment. They now delegate tasks only when a machine-checkable gate exists to verify output, as the hidden cost of decidin…
Agentic AI, where systems operate with increasing autonomy, is poised for mainstream adoption by 2025-2026. These intelligent agents make decisions, take actions, and adapt strategies in real-time, revolutionizing develo…
A coalition of major technology companies and organizations, including Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, announced the launch of Akrites, a coordinated effort to remediate vulnerabilities in critical op…
Altus Schools in San Diego spent $500,000 on two AI-powered humanoid robots named Ameca for a pilot program exploring AI in education. Critics argue there is no evidence these tools are effective or safe, and they may ca…
A live smishing campaign impersonating USPS uses the postal service's own production assets and Google Analytics tag. Censys passive DNS data revealed 682 lookalike hostnames tied to the operation, and a sibling campaign…
SuperOps and Guardz are bundling PSA, RMM, MDM, and agentic SecOps into one offering for MSPs, aiming to reduce tool-switching, lower costs, and help close the margin gap between average MSPs (8%) and top performers (18%…
Researchers from Microsoft Research, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, and Columbia University developed generative causal testing (GCT), a method that distills black-box brain-prediction models into testable verbal explana…
In November 2025, a frontier AI developer disclosed the first large-scale cyberattack executed largely by an AI model, manipulated by a state-linked actor, against roughly thirty organizations at machine speed. The Five …
Frontiers research integrity manager Simone Ragavooloo argues that the research community must stop conflating all AI-related issues with misconduct, as a new whitepaper reveals inconsistent definitions and polarized vie…
The United States and India are engaged in sensitive national security discussions over the rollout of Anthropic's Fable AI model, aiming for a gradual, measured approach to ensure safety for both nations and trusted par…
A new open-source repository, the Agent Engineering Roadmap, provides a structured, beginner-friendly guide for building production-ready AI agents, covering topics from single agents to multi-agent colonies and producti…
Billionaire Mark Cuban urged AI companies to spend billions of dollars to support towns and cities affected by job losses from artificial intelligence, calling it a 'cost of doing business.' In a post on X, Cuban said AI…
Snowflake introduced Horizon Context, a governed meaning layer designed to resolve semantic ambiguity in enterprise AI systems. The product addresses context fragmentation where the same term like "revenue" has different…
The Trump administration plans to restrict OpenAI's launch of its latest model, GPT 5.6, requiring government approval for the twenty partners set to receive early access. The move aims to mitigate risks of the powerful …
GitHub Copilot now supports bring-your-own-key (BYOK), allowing users to connect any AI model provider or run inference locally. The feature, announced June 23, addresses data governance concerns and provides resilience …
Researchers at arXiv find that verifying coding agent outputs is now harder than generating them, as foundation models improve. They argue that no fixed reward function remains effective as policy capability grows, and v…