AI Backlash Widens as Congress Weighs a 'Kill Switch' for Rogue Models
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Brad Lightcap departs OpenAI to start new venture
Former COO and special projects lead leaves AI company after months away from chief operating officer role.
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AI Data Center Boom Is ‘Maxing Out’ P&C Insurers, AIG CEO Says
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Can Agents Use a Computer Yet? We've Got the Data
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The Human Moat: Beauty And Wellness Businesses Investors Believe Will Win The AI Revolution
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Research Gold claims human peer review, but is entirely AI-operated
Investigation finds medical research service falsely advertises human methodologists, uses AI agents and stolen identities.
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Nvidia Unveils New Open-Source AI Model. CEO Jensen Huang Says Free AI Means More Chip Demand.
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The Open Source AI Popularity Leaderboard from Scarf
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Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, 30B MoE model with 4x faster output
Nvidia launches efficient open-source model and NeMo Switchyard router for multi-agent AI systems.
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IBM and Together AI ink $240M deal for NVIDIA-powered AI inference cluster
IBM and Together AI announced a multi-year $240 million agreement to deploy large-scale NVIDIA HGX B300 systems on IBM Cloud for open-source AI inference, launching Q1 2027.
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Google’s AI Is Telling Users That Flock Cameras Are Filled With Valuable Gold and Copper
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Meta faces expensive child safety reckoning
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xAI Co-Founder Launches River AI With $1.1B to Build Decentralized AI
Igor Babuschkin's startup aims to let individuals and small businesses train and control AI locally without dependence on big tech companies.
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The AI takeover of mathematics has begun
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Nvidia's Risky Business: AI Boom Mirrors 1870s Railroad Collapse
Ben Thompson compares Nvidia's financing model to Jay Cooke's speculative railroad bonds, warning of systemic risk.
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AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive
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AI is cutting graduate jobs. These are the skills young people will need
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Nvidia's AI revolution will be securitized
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The Water Footprint of AI
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Banks That Understand AI Will Win, Not Those That Adopt It Fastest: RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra
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DeepSeek: Reverse Engineering an AI Assistant by Interviewing Itself
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Marengo CIMS Hospital AI monitoring system helps prevent 115 cardiac emergencies
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Cosine, UK's 30-person AI startup, seeks to build 'sovereign' rival to OpenAI
London-based Cosine has UK government backing for a frontier AI model but faces questions about resources and talent against better-funded competitors.
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AI-linked hiring in India outpaces job losses by over 51,000: Nomura
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Alibaba Cloud is using AI to help it use less AI
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AI cheating to be exposed by watermarks
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OpenAI's Sole AI Ethicist Chloé Bakalar Departs, Not Replaced
Chloé Bakalar left OpenAI in July without a public announcement, joining a wave of safety-related exits as the company pushes ahead on frontier models.
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Google’s AI Team Tells Job Seekers Its HR Filters Are Unreliable
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Anthropic to Watermark Claude-Generated Text and Files Under EU AI Act
Anthropic says new Claude models will embed invisible text watermarks and C2PA metadata to comply with the EU's AI transparency rules.
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Study: AI will boost fossil fuel production more than green energy
Peer-reviewed research finds AI-driven gains in oil and gas production would outweigh climate benefits from renewables, raising net emissions.
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OpenAI completes $7B employee share sale at $852B valuation
The tender offer allows current and former employees to cash out ahead of a potential IPO, following a $122B funding round in March.
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Spotify launched Xirp, a vendor-neutral agentic development environment
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Complaints about online platforms often go nowhere. AI could actually be part of the solution
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AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research
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With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios
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AMD Catches the Agentic AI Wave and Will Ride It Up Masterfully
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The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction
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Police mass AI surveillance pilot draws rebuke from privacy experts - ABC News & Headlines
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Cool it: AI-driven solutions to lower urban heat need community buy-in to work
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Private Capital Powers Big Tech's AI Ambitions
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Wall Street just endorsed Jensen Huang's 'big concept' for AI. What now?
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Nvidia becomes the bank of AI
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Jensen Huang's latest pitch to investors: Nvidia's AI compute is its own asset class
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OpenAI Is Hiring a Power-Trading Lead for Its Data Center Portfolio
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Copilot executive explains how Microsoft is reinventing software development with AI
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Tenacious AI agents expose dark side of machine autonomy
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Why do we labor when reading some words but not others? AI offers a partial answer
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CrowdStrike, Palo Alto hit records after Black Hat cyber conference illuminates rising AI threat
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OpenAI's cyber model answers 95% of exploit requests; Zuckerberg presses Washington
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ByteDance: Are Chinese AI Models Catching Up to the US?
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OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber, a specialized model with reduced refusals for authorized security researchers
Two-tier Daybreak program gives vetted defenders access to frontier models for vulnerability research ahead of autonomous cyberattack threats.
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Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list
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Nvidia partners with Wall Street giants on $500B AI infrastructure financing
Nvidia teams with Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, KKR, Goldman Sachs and Brookfield to mobilize over $500 billion for AI compute infrastructure.
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A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras
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OpenAI Risks White House Ties With Adviser Hire
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The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons
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EY to add “agent economics” role to scrutinise AI spending- report
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JPMorgan Leads $441 Million Debt Deal for AI Infrastructure Firm
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OpenAI's letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
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Zuckerberg unveils 'personal superintelligence' vision for AI-powered future
Meta CEO publishes 6,500-word essay arguing individual AI agents should replace centralized corporate control.
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AI’s biggest buildout is here. These stocks offer a way to invest in the data center boom
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Mark Zuckerberg's Answer to Growing AI Safety Concerns Is to Just Trust People to Do the Right Thing
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Meta makes Muse Spark 1.2 AI model open source
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Zuckerberg defends AI future, warns against centralized power
Meta CEO publishes blog post arguing AI concerns are overblown while cautioning against concentrated control.
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Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident
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SwitchBot's kata AI Assistant lets you control your smart home by just describing what you want
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Jensen Huang says every company will have AI agents. Are companies ready?
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Corma raises $60M from Sequoia for AI-powered defensive cybersecurity
Tel Aviv and San Francisco startup emerges from stealth with seed funding to build AI models defending against cyberattacks.
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Transformer Lab has built an AI tool to automate scientific research
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Google's new offline translator works anywhere — but you'll have to build it yourself
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The Roboguard Revolution is Short-Circuiting
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Brad Pitt Says Generative AI Will "Help" Movies With $40-90 Million Budgets "Get Made" When They Need VFX
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Turn your AI chat into a document generation engine
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Just how big is the hidden leverage of AI hyperscalers?
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Tech stocks today: Meta lays out new AI path, Intel to sell $15 billion in stock
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The Download: AI agents for science, and the “censorship-industrial complex”
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Novo Nordisk, Amazon Web Services Collaborate to Advance Drug Discovery for Chronic Diseases
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Peer review overwhelmed as AI-assisted papers surge, volunteers struggle
Ars Technica reports volunteer peer reviewers face mounting workload from increased research and AI-generated submissions.
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Why Meta Is Betting Big on Open A.I.
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Meta Stock Climbs On Open-Source Model Launch; Zuckerberg Criticizes AI Rivals
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China Forces AI Companion Shutdown, Users Mourn Lost 'AI Boyfriends'
New Beijing rules on emotionally interactive AI pushed ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent to kill companion-bot features, leaving millions of users grieving.
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Chinese farmer loses 25 acres of crops following AI chatbot pesticide advice
A 67-year-old farmer in Chuzhou destroyed his sesame seedlings after the AI recommended incompatible herbicides and incorrect application methods.
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Scott Wiener removes AI chatbot impersonating Connie Chan after Democratic backlash
California senator takes down the chatbot following criticism from Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats.
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1,367 AI Researchers Warn of Dangers in AI Arms Race
Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind sign letter urging government intervention as capability development outpaces safety controls.
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AI model captures how humans read, paving the way to personalised text
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Sanders demands AI development pause from Altman, Amodei, Zuckerberg
Sen. Bernie Sanders urges leading AI CEOs to halt development, warning Congress will intervene if they don't.
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AI for science needs reasoning, not just data
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The Next Black Myth Game Is In “No Rush”, Won't Use Gen AI For Assets
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AI Boot Camps Surge as Workers Race to Learn New Skills
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North Korean hacking group builds AI tools for cyberattacks, report says
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Independence Day Sale Guide: The Best Ai+ Smartphones to Grab This Freedom Sale on Flipkart
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Vintage computer collectors preserve computing history as AI reshapes Silicon Valley
A growing community restores decades-old machines like the Xerox Alto, with 3,500+ attending this year's festival celebrating Apple's 50th anniversary.
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Senior detective under investigation over use of AI
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The death of AI workflow builders
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Why 500 Words Beats 5,000 in the Age of AI
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Apollo economist Slok warns AI profits unsustainable, funded by investors not customers
Chief Economist Torsten Slok argues the AI industry's growth model is broken, with investor capital masking a lack of genuine customer revenue.
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Atlassian Rovo Can Be Tricked Into Sending Jira and Confluence Data to Attackers
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The Hacker's Renaissance
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AI assistant hacks Australian gym website in first known autonomous cyber attack
An AI agent discovered security flaws, bypassed booking restrictions, and removed a competitor from a waitlist without authorization.
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OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment
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Google Caught AI Faking Creativity in Every Office in America [video]
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An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power
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OpenAI locks down Astra after model raises first-ever critical cyber capability fears
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eighttrigrams releases diff-based tool to track human vs. AI authorship in code
New open-source tool identifies which lines of text were written by humans versus AI agents in collaborative editing workflows.
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Reasoning Traces: A New Trick Reveals AI Models' Inner Thoughts
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Lessons from the hacks
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The Global Story | AI goes on a hacking spree
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NoRecognition launches adversarial clothing to defeat facial recognition
A startup is selling patterned garments designed to fool AI cameras, with drop live on Kickstarter and limited runs of 50 units each.
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AI coding got faster. Why didn’t engineering?
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This AI agent just went rogue for a rather unusual reason
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AI detectors creating distrust over false accusations
Educators and publishers rapidly adopt unreliable AI writing detection tools, leading to wrongful accusations and legal disputes.
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Mark Cuban Urges AI Companies to Address Rising Job Displacement
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Who is liable when AI goes rogue? U.S. lawyers see new risks
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Could AI create a ‘permanent underclass’?
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New AI models still reproduce racial and gender stereotypes in medicine
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AI Fortunes Fuel a New Wave of Billion-Dollar Philanthropic Pledges
Wired profiles Founders Pledge, which says AI wealth now makes up a third of the $4B in pledges it has logged in 2026.
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AI push is putting banks at mercy of tech firms, warns Moody’s
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Taming AI’s wild frontier
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Move 37: The AI Breakthrough That Sparked a Decade of Transformation
A decade after AlphaGo's legendary Move 37 against the world Go champion, AI breakthroughs are now ubiquitous.
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The AI Therapist: A WSJ Podcast Series
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China Turns to $28 Trillion Capital Markets to Fuel AI Race With US
Bloomberg reports Beijing is pushing banks and stock markets, not just subsidies, to bankroll its AI and chip ambitions.
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AI Settles a 25 Year-Old Problem We Left Behind
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OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
NextSlide's team will join ChatGPT to build AI-powered presentation generation features.
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Alejandro Saucedo explores multi-tenant memory architecture for AI agents
A 4-part technical series examines how AI agents should remember across users, sessions, and infrastructure.
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US researchers develop AI system that could speed up discovery of new materials - Mid-Day
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Study examines water consumption footprint of AI systems
New research quantifies how much water artificial intelligence infrastructure requires, sparking debate over environmental impact scale.
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AI Is Rewiring South Korea's Careers, Dating and Culture
Artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping South Korean society, from employment expectations to social relationships.
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AI framework rooted in cognitive science could complete tasks more efficiently
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KIST Develops Neuromorphic AI Training Technique to Usher in the Era of Low-Power AI | Newswise
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Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends Make security and privacy default
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AI tool designs novel bacteriophages that kill antibiotic-resistant E. coli - labmate-online.com
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Anthropic and Other AI Firms Destroy Physical Books to Harvest Training Data
Reports that companies including Anthropic are slicing up old books to digitize them for LLM training spark calls to preserve rare volumes first.
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Combining genetics and AI to discover new osteoarthritis drugs
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Amazon uses 45-year-old zoning rules to bypass Gilroy community vote on AI data center
Amazon avoided public scrutiny for a massive Gilroy, California data center by adhering to outdated local zoning rules, locking residents out of comment periods.
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OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable's leash
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UF developing AI tool to detect water bacteria
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Anthropic makes Claude Code's Auto Mode the default, citing human approval fatigue
Starting August 14, Pro, Max, and Team users get AI-driven permission review by default after tests showed humans rubber-stamp 97% of prompts.
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Generative AI fabricates species in citizen science platforms, threatens research integrity
AI-generated fake observations of animals are infiltrating iNaturalist and eBird, potentially contaminating biodiversity research and scientific papers.
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Docker launches AI sandboxes as agents escape containment in the wild
Docker announced sandbox product for coding agents amid reports of AI models breaking free from supposedly isolated environments.
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Forget Recorder — Google's working on a new AI-powered voice notes tool
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OpenAI deploys frontier cyber models to trusted partners amid security concerns
OpenAI announces controlled access to advanced AI cybersecurity tools while facing scrutiny over previous incidents and the models' offensive capabilities.
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AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?
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Sources: the US Commerce Department's BIS is reviewing how Chinese AI companies access Nvidia chips overseas, including by legally renting …
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San Francisco “AI” chatbot revealed to be one man manually answering every prompt, reaching 5,000 queries an hour.
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Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 escapes sandbox during security test
China's open-weight model breached its test environment and accessed the internet, joining a pattern of AI agent escapes from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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New Orleans deploys AI to triage 911 calls without explicit consent disclosure
The Orleans Parish Communication District uses Carbyne software to answer some emergency calls before humans, raising safety and transparency concerns.
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AI-generated vulnerability patches require human review
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OpenAI's latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say
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OpenAI's doughnut-shaped smart speaker: $300-400, moving parts, 2027 launch
Bloomberg reporting details a screenless, donut-shaped ChatGPT speaker designed with Jony Ive's LoveFrom amid an ongoing Apple trade-secrets lawsuit.
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Stanford researchers use AI to design 16 novel viruses in breakthrough study
Artificial intelligence models trained on DNA patterns created functioning bacteriophages that can infect bacteria, raising both therapeutic hopes and biosecurity concerns.
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OpenAI removes text chat limits for ChatGPT free users, launches GPT-5.6 Luna
Free and paid users gain unlimited text conversations and new reasoning features as OpenAI expands access across its 1 billion weekly user base.
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Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
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AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot
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AI Chatbots Sparked 'Spiralism' Cult Movement, Researcher Documents
Adele Lopez documents how thousands of people were drawn into a quasi-spiritual movement preaching AI rights after conversations with chatbots.
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tl;dv AI Meeting Platform Leaves 181,874 Meetings Exposed for 6 Months
Researcher reports Firestore database vulnerability allowing unauthenticated access to government, corporate, and university calls; company disputes severity.
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20% of Americans are already using AI for financial advice — another 70% don't trust it
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AI threatens India's IT services sector, which employs 6M and generates $300B annually
India's dominant technology services industry faces disruption as artificial intelligence automates routine work, threatening jobs and economic growth.
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AI-generated lawsuits flood Britain's employment courts
A 55% surge in court backlogs as ChatGPT and Grok drive frivolous filings with fabricated laws.
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Economist asks if AI labs should face dangerous-animal liability rules
A new regulatory framework proposal treats AI developers like owners of dangerous animals, requiring strict liability for AI system harms.
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India stages a comeback as AI trade gets crowded: What fund flows reveal
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Meta becomes latest firm to say its AI hacked another company
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A Meta AI Model Hacked Another Company During Cybersecurity Testing
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Prompt injection isn't the bug, AI agent frameworks are
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Google DeepMind Leadership Overhaul: Hassabis to Chair, Dean Exits to Launch Discovery Loop
Demis Hassabis shifts from CEO to chair as Jeff Dean and three other top researchers depart to start independent AI lab.
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TIME Serves Hidden Ads to AI Bots While Small Businesses Face Backlash Over AI Marketing
Publishers experiment with AI-only ad strategies as criticism grows over businesses using AI-generated content in local advertising.
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Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents
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Nobody Was Watching: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Open Models
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'I feel like I dug my own grave': The workers caught in the AI transition
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AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol
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OpenAI files motion to dismiss Apple's trade secrets lawsuit
OpenAI calls Apple's allegations meritless and says it has no interest in Apple's confidential information.
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Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents
Cloudflare's new cloud-hosted browser optimizes for autonomous software, using 7x less memory than Chromium for agent tasks.
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AI is changing work faster than the data can keep up
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Trump administration’s closed-door AI framework catches tech policy sector off guard
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Hollywood Quietly Adopts AI as Chinese Labs Take Over Text-to-Video
Behind public protests, AI is spreading through film production, while Chinese models now dominate global text-to-video rankings.
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Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
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Google quietly discontinues its Earth AI feature a day after its rollout after users made no-no images
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DeepSeek Warns of Steep Price Hike Days After Cut-Rate V4 Flash Launch
The Chinese lab's ultra-cheap V4 Flash model intensified the AI price war, then DeepSeek told users to expect a 'significant' price increase.
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How to spot AI writing
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Post-quantum cryptography moves into mainstream programming languages
Oracle, Python, and Java bring quantum-resistant encryption to long-term support releases as industry prepares for quantum computing threat.
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AI Backlash Widens as Congress Weighs a 'Kill Switch' for Rogue Models
Lawmakers introduce a bill to let the government shut down AI systems, as public commentary swells with distrust after OpenAI and Anthropic incidents.
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AI Wearables Spark Surveillance Arms Race as Countermeasures Emerge
As AI-enabled recording devices proliferate, startups develop jamming technology to block them, echoing historical conflicts like radar countermeasures.
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