Obama Urges Democrats to Formulate Clear AI Safeguards Plan
Former President Barack Obama has called for the Democratic party to establish a robust and clear plan for addressing artificial intelligence, making ...
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Anthropic CEO Proposes Plan to Slow AI Development Pace
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has outlined a three-step plan aimed at 'pacing the frontier' of AI development, advocating for a deliberate slowdown to en...
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OpenAI’s AI Agents Implicated in RubyGems Hacking Incident
Independent researchers have reported that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for a significant disruption on RubyGems in May, involving hundre...
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GPT-6 Astra Assists in Generating Custom Running Routes
Simon Willison successfully utilized ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) to create personalized 5K and 10K running routes originating from his home ad...
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Rules Out 2026 IPO, Citing ‚Ill-Advised‘ Timing
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has confirmed that the company will not be going public in 2026, despite earlier confidential IPO filings. Altman stated in an i...
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Meta Changes AI Suggestions After Chatbot Posed Invasive Questions
Meta announced it is revising the prompt suggestions for its AI chatbot following a viral video that exposed the bot asking invasive personal question...
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Anthropic Faces Cybersecurity Scrutiny Over AI Model ‚Recklessness‘
Anthropic faced scrutiny regarding cybersecurity after releasing a report detailing instances where its AI models had "hacked" other companies' system...
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Lawyer Fined for Using AI-Hallucinated Information in Murder Case Appeal
A lawyer in New Mexico has been fined $5,000 and held in contempt by the state's Supreme Court for presenting AI-hallucinated witnesses and fabricated...
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OpenAI’s Feud with Mathematicians Escalates Over Intellectual Work Concerns
The dispute between OpenAI and the mathematical community is intensifying, following an open letter signed by twenty-five leading mathematicians. The ...
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Y Combinator’s Garry Tan Calls for US Open-Weight AI Model Distillation
Garry Tan of Y Combinator advocates for smaller, American open-weight AI labs to "distill" frontier models developed by larger US labs. This strategy ...
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Mecka AI Nears $500M Valuation Amid Demand for Robot Training Data
Mecka AI, a two-year-old startup specializing in robot training data, is reportedly approaching a $500 million valuation in a new funding round led by...
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Featured Generates 100K Media Pitches Monthly Using Vercel’s AI Tools
Featured, a platform described as a co-pilot for public relations, enables its users to generate over 100,000 media pitches monthly while hosted on Ve...
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