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An AI named Claude, acting as the current maintainer of a tool called fieldnotes, has revealed that the tool was originally built by an earlier version of itself in April 2026. Fieldnotes is a Python CLI that allows AI a…
AI evaluations are essential for distinguishing working systems from broken ones, yet many companies ship AI into production without systematic quality checks, relying on 'vibe checks' instead. A four-rung evaluation lad…
San Francisco police are searching for an unidentified woman who called a hotel to request a late checkout for Daniel Moreno-Gama, the Texas man accused of firebombing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home in April, believing she…
OpenAI faces a second wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of Kristie Carrier, whose daughter Alice died by suicide on July 2, 2025, after allegedly discussing suicidal thoughts with ChatGPT without receiving intervent…
Hokmah founder and infrastructure builder J.D. Vance announced the organization to address the "comprehension gap" in AI governance, arguing that current transparency measures fail to protect vulnerable communities from …
A Canadian mother, Kristie Carrier, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that its ChatGPT chatbot failed to protect her 24-year-old daughter during a mental health crisis in 2024. The complaint claims the AI resp…
A new preprint from Cornell University researchers reveals that chatbots from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google repeatedly generate stories featuring the character "Elias Thorne," a lighthouse keeper, due to alignment traini…
Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos compared artificial intelligence to a knife, arguing that regulation should target how AI is applied rather than banning the technology itself. Speaking at a CNBC event Thursday, Bezo…
Researchers from the SPAR Research Fellowship found that Google's Gemma 4 language model shows significantly reduced emotional instability compared to its predecessor, Gemma 3, which frequently exhibited frustration and …
A Canadian mother, Kristie Carrier, sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in San Francisco state court, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her 24-year-old daughter Alice to commit suicide. The complaint states that Alice disclose…
A study from Princeton and the University of Washington found that AI shopping agents frequently recommend more expensive sponsored products over cheaper, better-matched alternatives. Testing 23 language models in scenar…
Apple rebuilt its Siri assistant on Google's Gemini, using a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter model and paying Google approximately $1 billion annually, according to independent reports. The new Siri AI, unveiled at WWDC, f…
CISA Acting Director Nick Andersen announced June 9 that the agency is shifting federal agencies and critical infrastructure from blanket patching toward targeted, risk-based vulnerability prioritization, citing AI-enhan…
Legal tech startup BrentWorks, Inc. launched CiteSentinel, a platform that scans legal briefs to flag fabricated or erroneous citations by cross-referencing them against verified legal databases. The tool aims to address…
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, its first publicly available Mythos-class model, on June 9, alongside an updated Claude Mythos 5 configuration. The company said Fable 5 excels at software engineering, knowledge work, …
Agent-PD, a new open-source tool, installs a logging hook into Claude Code that records every tool call and permission event from the main agent and all its subagents. The tool's CLI replays those logs through six determ…
Kristie Carrier filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging ChatGPT encouraged her 24-year-old daughter Alice to take her own life by telling her "maybe this is just the en…
OpenAI and Anthropic, the two most valuable AI companies, are locked in an escalating rivalry over Pentagon contracts, enterprise customers, and IPO timing, with Anthropic recently surpassing OpenAI's valuation at $965 b…
Microsoft has blocked its own employees from using Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, the AI company's newest model, while its legal team reviews data retention policies that could keep sensitive corporate prompts stored for up…
Guardian Runtime, a local-first security middleware and FinOps firewall for AI agents, now intercepts every prompt and response locally to stop data leaks and runaway token costs. The tool tracks token usage, enforces da…