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Anthropic Alleges That Alibaba Pilfered Claude Capabilities
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic

Anthropic Alleges That Alibaba Pilfered Claude Capabilities

Anthropic has alleged that Alibaba improperly copied Claude's capabilities through model distillation. The incident...

AI Business
Most major AI chatbots still lean left on political questions, even "anti-woke" models are no exception
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Most major AI chatbots still lean left on political questions, even "anti-woke" models are no exception

A Washington Post investigation reveals that most major AI chatbots demonstrate a leftward bias on political questions,...

The Decoder
Grok AI is reportedly a porn platform now, with over half its traffic tied to adult content
Ethics & RegulationxAI

Grok AI is reportedly a porn platform now, with over half its traffic tied to adult content

Grok AI reportedly generates over half its traffic from adult content, with xAI actively embracing this use case while...

The Decoder
Authors Guild test finds some AI detectors perfectly identify human writing while others fail on every single text
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Authors Guild test finds some AI detectors perfectly identify human writing while others fail on every single text

The Authors Guild tested five AI detectors and found significant inconsistency in their performance, with some like...

The Decoder
Meta employees warn AI moderation rollout is too fast
Ethics & RegulationMeta

Meta employees warn AI moderation rollout is too fast

Meta is rapidly replacing human content moderators with large language models, planning to handle over 90% of certain...

The Decoder
British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted
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British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

A WIRED investigation examines the UK police's experiment with predictive analytics technology, revealing significant...

Wired AI
How to Opt Out of Google Search’s New AI Data Training Feature
Ethics & RegulationGoogle

How to Opt Out of Google Search’s New AI Data Training Feature

Google is storing user media uploads from Search interactions to train its AI models, and users can now opt out of this...

Wired AI
Congresswoman denies staff used AI to write defense funding amendment
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic

Congresswoman denies staff used AI to write defense funding amendment

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna addressed controversy over AI use in a defense bill amendment, claiming staff only used AI for...

The Verge AI
I Met With China’s Top AI Experts. They’re Freaking Out, Too
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I Met With China’s Top AI Experts. They’re Freaking Out, Too

The article reports on a meeting with China's top AI experts who express significant concerns about the AI arms race...

Wired AI
The $27 million Al proxy war over Alex Bores ends in a draw
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The $27 million Al proxy war over Alex Bores ends in a draw

A $27 million political proxy war between Anthropic and OpenAI over AI regulation ended in a draw when Alex Bores, a...

The Verge AI
The Trump White House Is Over Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic

The Trump White House Is Over Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been replaced by cofounder Tom Brown for high-stakes White House meetings, suggesting...

Wired AI
Hollywood is bending the knee to OpenAI
Ethics & RegulationOpenAI

Hollywood is bending the knee to OpenAI

Multiple major Hollywood studios have declined to distribute 'Artificial,' a biographical drama about OpenAI CEO Sam...

The Verge AI
Exploring the societal impacts of AI
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Exploring the societal impacts of AI

MIT researchers at an AI and Society Forum discussed the societal impacts of artificial intelligence, focusing on its...

MIT News AI
How AI is Reshaping Europe's Digital Sovereignty Debate
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How AI is Reshaping Europe's Digital Sovereignty Debate

The article discusses strategies for European governments to pursue AI sovereignty and maintain digital independence....

AI Business
Ethics & RegulationOpenAI

Helping build shared standards for advanced AI

OpenAI is supporting the development of shared standards for advanced AI through the Appia Foundation, focusing on...

OpenAI Blog
Top spy agencies say AI cyber threats will impact you within months. Here’s why
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Top spy agencies say AI cyber threats will impact you within months. Here’s why

The Five Eyes intelligence alliance issued a joint warning on June 22, 2026, stating that AI-powered cyber threats will...

AI News
OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open-source bugs
Ethics & RegulationOpenAI

OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open-source bugs

OpenAI has launched a new initiative focused on identifying and patching security vulnerabilities in open-source...

TechCrunch AI
Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program
Ethics & RegulationMeta

Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program

Meta's controversial employee-tracking program, which collects keystroke data to train AI models, has exposed data...

Wired AI
Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem
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Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem

Nvidia announced a new cooling system to reduce water consumption within data centers, but the solution does not...

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