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Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned
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Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned

David Sacks has resigned from his position as director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), making...

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Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio’s AI music generator over
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Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio’s AI music generator over

Sony Music Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against Udio, an AI music generator, claiming it infringed the copyright...

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Trump administration reportedly builds a slow-motion ban on Chinese AI models through sanctions and soft pressure
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Trump administration reportedly builds a slow-motion ban on Chinese AI models through sanctions and soft pressure

The Trump administration is considering indirect measures to restrict Chinese AI models, including sanctions and...

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Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan
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Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan

The article discusses perspectives on AI development trajectories, comparing open versus closed approaches to AI...

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‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’
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‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’

Director Christopher Nolan criticizes AI as a 'Trojan horse,' using the metaphor of Greeks hidden inside to warn about...

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AI text detectors struggle when language models mimic an author's style
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AI text detectors struggle when language models mimic an author's style

Epoch AI tested three leading AI text detectors and found they struggle to identify AI-generated content when language...

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China's new World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization is President Xi's clearest play yet for a parallel AI order
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China's new World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization is President Xi's clearest play yet for a parallel AI order

China announced a new World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization at the Shanghai World AI Conference,...

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Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You
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Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You

The article discusses privacy concerns with period tracking apps and other cybersecurity issues including Russian...

Wired AI
Open-weight models now match frontier cyber performance from just four months ago at a fraction of the cost
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Open-weight models now match frontier cyber performance from just four months ago at a fraction of the cost

Open-weight AI models like GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro have rapidly closed the cybersecurity capability gap with...

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The Pentagon's new AI playbook treats slow adoption as a bigger risk than imperfect alignment
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The Pentagon's new AI playbook treats slow adoption as a bigger risk than imperfect alignment

The US Navy has adopted a strategy to prioritize AI and data integration across its fleet, including deploying large...

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TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool
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TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool

TikTok is testing an opt-in AI likeness detection tool that allows creators to report AI-generated deepfakes of...

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Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them
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Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them

Patreon is partnering with Cloudflare to actively block AI scraping bots from training models on creator content...

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Prompt: Enterprise AI Must Prove Its Value Beyond Deployment
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Prompt: Enterprise AI Must Prove Its Value Beyond Deployment

Organizations are shifting focus from simply deploying AI to demonstrating measurable business value, redesigning...

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San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores
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San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores

San Francisco's City Attorney sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google demanding they remove 13 AI-powered...

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New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule’ in the state
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New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule’ in the state

New York Governor Kathy Hochul is using AI to analyze all state rules and regulations to identify and remove outdated...

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Computer cops
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Computer cops

An article examining how AI is being integrated into law enforcement through the International Association of Chiefs of...

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Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI
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Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI

The author advocates for changing default settings on generative AI features from opt-out to opt-in, arguing that users...

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Suno snatched millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer
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Suno snatched millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer

Suno, an AI music generator, was exposed through a hacking incident to have scraped millions of songs and lyrics from...

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Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data
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Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data

A hacker accessed Suno's source code using an employee's credentials, revealing that the AI music generator scraped...

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