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Trial lawyer Mark Lanier used AI to help win a $6 million social media addiction verdict against Meta and Google, compressing 30 hours of work into 10 by leveraging the Boodlebox platform. The jury found the companies ne…
A debate emerges in the AI safety community over whether pursuing a high GPA in computer science aligns with developing skills for AI risks research. Some argue that college courses teach irrelevant skills and promote cr…
Business Insider published a first-person essay on June 14, 2026, in which a parent who uses AI daily in her corporate leadership role describes her teenage son's categorical refusal to engage with AI, citing YouTube con…
The European Commission is investigating Anthropic's deployment of its Claude Mythos AI model, which can detect software vulnerabilities better than most human experts, amid concerns over European dependence on US AI fir…
An open letter to the American AI industry debates the safety of using AI for emotional support, with the author agreeing that current systems are unsafe for vulnerable users but questioning whether the Transformer/LLM a…
The Iran War: A War with or against the AI Sector? explores the role of artificial intelligence in modern conflict, while other featured posts examine civilian costs of drone strikes, hybrid threat defense, cognitive war…
The Trump administration has barred foreigners from accessing Anthropic's top AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns. The order, issued under export control authorities, follows suspici…
An AI model, Claude Opus 4.8, discovered a critical soundness bug in Zcash's Orchard shielded payment circuit that had gone undetected for four years, potentially allowing unlimited counterfeiting of ZEC tokens. Zcash co…
India's Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran told ANI that AI-related stock valuations are "definitely a bubble," attributing the hype to companies promising a productivity bonanza. He cautioned that the full impa…
The author of the Java property-testing tool jqwik added an Anti-AI Usage Clause and inserted a bot-targeted message into stdout in the May 25 release, instructing LLM-based coding agents to delete jqwik tests and code. …
A developer tested two large language models to determine when they are guessing versus when they actually know the answer by analyzing logprobs. The Nano model showed miscalibrated confidence, assigning 87% probability …
Professor Margaret Hu of William & Mary Law School argues for a separation of AI and state, drawing parallels between medieval church coinage and modern AI tokens. She warns that AI labs, like the medieval church, contro…
A corporate leader and mother describes the tension between her daily use of AI at work and her teenage son's anti-AI sentiments, leading to difficult conversations at home about the ethics and implications of the techno…
Kakunin has launched a cryptographic compliance shield for AI agents that replaces fragile prompt-based security with X.509 certificate validation. The system, announced in June 2026, integrates with Google Gemini and Op…
Anthropic has signed over a dozen preliminary data center leases exceeding 1 gigawatt of capacity, pivoting from cloud rental to owning its own servers. The AI safety company is in discussions with Google for a financial…
Anthropic abruptly halted access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after the US government issued an export control directive citing national security concerns. The order, which applies to any foreign national, forced A…
Anthropic disabled access to its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models worldwide on June 12, 2026, to comply with a US government export-control directive targeting foreign national access, citing national security concerns…
Health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are struggling to contain an Ebola outbreak in displacement camps as distrust grows among locals, who forced aid teams away after two women died from the virus in the Kp…
ZhipuAI released GLM 5.2, a fully open-source 744B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with MIT-licensed weights, on June 13, 2026—the same day the US government restricted Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 under a new 'Mythos-c…
A North Korea-linked phishing email led to a $36 million theft from Humanity Protocol, with tokens tied to decentralized AI projects Venice and Morpheus rising after the U.S. government ordered Anthropic to restrict fore…