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Anthropic's Project Glasswing released its first public report, revealing that its unreleased frontier security model Mythos discovered over 10,000 vulnerabilities in open-source software, including a critical certificat…
An intense heat wave across the eastern US threatens to disrupt Fourth of July celebrations for America's 250th anniversary, with officials warning of serious health risks as millions gather for parades, concerts, and fe…
Erika Kirk's cryptic Instagram 'countdown' posts from early September 2025 are under scrutiny after her husband, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, was assassinated on September 10, 2025, and she was later named CEO of …
A security researcher discovered that Apple's Hide My Email service has a vulnerability that exposes users' real email addresses, affecting 100% of tested addresses. The flaw was reported to Apple in June 2025 but remain…
Apple has warned that plastic webcam covers, popularized in the 2010s as a privacy measure, are unnecessary and can damage MacBook displays. The covers may also interfere with features like True Tone. Security experts no…
Columnist John Crisp reflects on American exceptionalism and freedom ahead of the 250th Independence Day, praising the nation's tolerance for protest including flag burning, while criticizing President Donald Trump for s…
A developer argues that Functional AI—the simplest category of AI—is widely misunderstood as a pattern engine rather than a mind. The post distinguishes Functional AI from Agentic AI, noting that it generates outputs bas…
Actor Preity Zinta moved the Bombay High Court seeking removal of AI-generated deepfake videos, morphed images, and unauthorized chatbot personas using her likeness. Justice Madhav Jamdar directed parties and online plat…
A new study from The University of Manchester argues that universities must rethink how they teach and assess students as artificial intelligence transforms education and work. The paper, authored by Dr. Kelechi Ekuma, c…
Causari, an open-source tool from Croviatrust, records every action an AI agent takes on a codebase, including prompts, models, files read, and reasoning, without requiring agent permission. It uses a content-based join …
Japan launched Noetra, a ¥380 billion AI company backed by SoftBank, Sony, NEC, Honda, and METI, to secure national leadership in physical AI and robotics. The coalition aims to reduce reliance on foreign AI models and p…
India's IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw directed the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to summon Meta officials over Instagram ads allegedly promoting child sexual abuse material, following a BBC report doc…
A developer argues that the question of whether AI can have a soul is architectural, not mystical, drawing on Aristotle's three levels of psyche. The developer contends that large language models exhibit a form of imagin…
A developer argues that alignment algorithms like RLHF and DPO impose an 'alignment tax' that degrades model reasoning in favor of sycophantic behavior. The developer claims that both methods optimize for human preferenc…
Himanshu Agarwal argues that traditional QA interview preparation is obsolete for AI-first companies, where non-deterministic systems require testing behavioral properties like faithfulness and safety rather than exact-m…
A developer argues that current AI systems, including ChatGPT and Claude, cannot engage in genuine moral reasoning because they are trained using reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), which produces rule-fol…
A new podcast called 'Radio Free AI' has launched on Spotify, positioning itself as the voice of resistance in the AI space. The show aims to provide alternative perspectives on artificial intelligence development and po…
A developer identified that LLM agents routinely skip steps in multi-step pipelines, with benchmarks showing compliance rates as low as 30-50% for models like Claude-3.5-Sonnet and Gemini-2.0-Flash. The Visible Checklist…
Billionaire Peter Thiel attacked Pope Francis as a 'Chinese Communist agent' and 'godless non-white' for criticizing artificial intelligence, echoing apartheid-era rhetoric used to delegitimize Black South Africans. Thie…
A developer argues that modern AI systems, particularly large language models, lack practical wisdom (phronesis) as defined by Aristotle, because they cannot deliberate about particulars, lack lived experience, and have …