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Attackers abuse shared ChatGPT and Claude chats to spread malware
Ethics & Regulation

Attackers abuse shared ChatGPT and Claude chats to spread malware

Attackers are exploiting the chat-sharing features in ChatGPT and Claude to distribute malware through shared...

The Decoder
Amazon Is Making an AI-Animated ‘Good Advice Cupcake’ TV Show. Its Original Creator Is Furious
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Amazon Is Making an AI-Animated ‘Good Advice Cupcake’ TV Show. Its Original Creator Is Furious

Amazon licensed The Good Advice Cupcake character from BuzzFeed to create an AI-animated TV series without obtaining...

Wired AI
We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well
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We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well

A book about AI's impact on truth and reality faced criticism for using AI-generated quotes without disclosure, raising...

Wired AI
Scaling safe enterprise AI with OpenAI governance frameworks
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Scaling safe enterprise AI with OpenAI governance frameworks

OpenAI has released its Frontier Governance Framework (FGF) to help enterprise leaders safely and compliantly deploy AI...

AI News
The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic
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The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic

The Vatican, represented by Pope Leo XIV, has placed a representative inside Anthropic to influence the company's...

Wired AI
Amazon kills internal AI leaderboard after employees gamed it with pointless tasks
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Amazon kills internal AI leaderboard after employees gamed it with pointless tasks

Amazon discontinued its internal AI leaderboard system after employees gamed it by completing meaningless AI tasks to...

The Decoder
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A shared playbook for trustworthy third party evaluations

OpenAI has published guidance on conducting third-party evaluations of AI systems, addressing how to assess model...

OpenAI Blog
IBM and Red Hat Invest $5 Billion to Make Open Source More Secure
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IBM and Red Hat Invest $5 Billion to Make Open Source More Secure

IBM and Red Hat are investing $5 billion to improve open source software security, following Anthropic's development of...

AI Business
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Databricks’ co-founder on what kills enterprise AI deals
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At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Databricks’ co-founder on what kills enterprise AI deals

Databricks' co-founder discusses how enterprise AI adoption is shifting from evaluating AI's potential to assessing...

TechCrunch AI
CNN sues Perplexity over ‘verbatim’ copycat articles
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CNN sues Perplexity over ‘verbatim’ copycat articles

CNN has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity, accusing the AI startup of generating "verbatim" copies of its content and...

The Verge AI
Illinois Lawmakers Just Passed America’s Strongest AI Safety Bill
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Illinois Lawmakers Just Passed America’s Strongest AI Safety Bill

Illinois lawmakers passed what they describe as America's strongest AI safety bill, requiring AI companies to have...

Wired AI
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OpenAI’s Frontier Governance Framework

OpenAI has released a Frontier Governance Framework that outlines its AI safety, security, and risk management...

OpenAI Blog
YouTube will try to automatically flag AI videos starting this month
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YouTube will try to automatically flag AI videos starting this month

YouTube is implementing stricter AI labeling requirements, making disclosure labels more visible below video players...

The Decoder
AI tried to bury this politician — now people have actually heard of him
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AI tried to bury this politician — now people have actually heard of him

OpenAI and Anthropic are spending millions in a political battle over AI regulation through super PACs supporting and...

The Verge AI
China is increasingly keeping its best AI talent to itself
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China is increasingly keeping its best AI talent to itself

China's growing AI sector is producing top-tier talent, and the Chinese government is increasingly implementing...

TechCrunch AI
China turns its aging camera network into an AI-powered mass surveillance apparatus
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China turns its aging camera network into an AI-powered mass surveillance apparatus

China's police are upgrading surveillance cameras with AI-powered computer vision and language models from...

The Decoder
YouTube will now automatically label AI videos
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YouTube will now automatically label AI videos

YouTube will automatically label videos that use significant photorealistic AI-generated content rather than relying...

TechCrunch AI
YouTube is putting AI labels where you’ll actually see them
Ethics & RegulationGoogle

YouTube is putting AI labels where you’ll actually see them

YouTube is making AI-generated content labels more prominent and visible on both Shorts and long-form videos,...

The Verge AI
Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis
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Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis

Box CEO Aaron Levie comments that tech CEOs are prone to "AI psychosis," suggesting they have an almost religious...

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