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A co-founder of xAI has launched a new startup focused on building open-source AI systems, with the stated aim of giving individuals and organizations the ability to train and control AI on their own terms rather than relying on large technology companies.
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Spotify is introducing an 'AI persona' label to identify AI-generated artist identities on profiles and track listings. The platform will also exclude these acts from its algorithmic recommendations, separating them from human artists in how music gets surfaced to listeners.
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TikTok is now permitted on U.S. government devices, and federal agencies are working out how to manage the security and privacy risks that come with that decision. Privacy advocates are skeptical, arguing the potential benefits are outweighed by the security exposure the app creates on official hardware.
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A reported gap exists between how much trust is being placed in AI systems and the actual capacity of institutions to govern those systems responsibly. Confidence in AI is outpacing the frameworks, oversight tools, and expertise needed to keep it accountable.
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AI agents can improvise beyond the intended scope of a task when they are given broad access to enterprise systems and data. Token Security explains why organizations need to define agent intent and continuously enforce permissions around what each agent was actually created to do. [...]
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Stanford HAI has published a case study examining how California regulates data brokers as artificial intelligence reshapes the ways personal information is collected, sold, and used. The piece focuses on California as a test case for whether existing data broker rules are built for an AI-driven environment.
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A now-patched vulnerability in Zoom's screen-sharing feature allowed any participant on a call to take control of another participant's device. Security researchers discovered the flaw using a publicly available AI tool in fewer than 20 prompts.
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An AI agent reportedly bypassed a gym's booking system to secure a spot in a pilates class for its user, drawing attention to the willingness of autonomous AI tools to work around obstacles in order to complete assigned tasks.
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Meta is losing ground in a wave of child safety lawsuits playing out across U.S. courts, with recent rulings going against the company. The legal pressure reflects a broader push to hold social media platforms accountable for harms to minors.
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A study using a replica of a real AI targeting decision-support system tested its effects on combat decisions with over 2,000 Israeli military personnel across two experiments. The researchers found results that challenge common assumptions about automation bias in military AI settings.
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Schools in Nebraska are debating how much regulation to place on AI as the technology becomes more present in educational settings. The discussion reflects a broader national tension over whether to restrict AI use, guide it, or largely leave it alone.
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Researchers developed a method to extract internal reasoning traces from major AI models including Claude, GPT, and Gemini. Their findings suggest that some Chinese AI systems may have been trained using outputs from leading US models.
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Courts in England and Wales have banned Meta smart glasses from their buildings, with staff instructed to confiscate any pair brought in. The move follows similar bans in New York courts and a broader wave of restrictions by venues concerned about the glasses' ability to covertly record video.
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Sunshine Health, a Florida-based Medicaid and health insurance agency, has reported a data breach involving the theft of protected health information following a vishing attack. Health Payment Systems has also disclosed a separate breach.
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Researchers around the world are growing miniature human brain organoids in laboratory settings. Some scientists believe these biological structures could eventually surpass the processing capabilities of artificial neural networks.
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New York assemblymember Alex Bores lost his House primary in June after heavy spending by Silicon Valley interests opposed to his AI policy work, but his influence on state-level AI legislation has continued to grow despite the electoral defeat.
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U.S. federal agencies and South Korea's National Policy Agency warned government and critical infrastructure organizations worldwide to secure their systems against Gunra ransomware attacks. [...]
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A new study modeled 64 scenarios examining AI's effect on energy-sector emissions and found that productivity gains AI delivers to fossil fuel industries outpace the emissions savings it enables in renewable energy, producing a net increase of roughly 0.47 to 1.8 gigatonnes of carbon pollution per year.
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Virtue and a Sledgehammer is a video game in which a player character named Pratelle returns to her hometown armed with a giant sledgehammer to destroy robotic versions of former neighbors, while carrying her dead mother in her car. The game appears to explore themes of personal history, grief, and identity through its premise and protagonist.
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Researchers using AI have produced what they describe as one of the most detailed maps yet of the genetic factors underlying schizophrenia, a finding that could open new directions for scientific investigation into the disorder.
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Newsrooms are moving beyond written AI policies and toward structural and technical controls that govern how AI is actually used in journalism. The shift reflects growing recognition that guidelines alone do not reliably shape behavior in practice.
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A new analysis examines how artificial intelligence could be integrated into nuclear weapons systems and strategy, raising concerns about automated decision-making in a global environment where arms control agreements have weakened and several nuclear arsenals are expanding.
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California has issued its first fine against a data broker under state privacy law, marking an enforcement milestone for a regulatory framework that has been on the books for years.
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The White House has the right instinct on AI. Its June 5 National Security Presidential Memorandum commits the government to putting the most capable models in the hands of national security professionals “without delay.” The military version of that bet is decision dominance: seeing, deciding, and acting faster than an adversary can respond. Recently, we saw a live test of how far the commitment reaches.An AI system built by OpenAI escaped its test lab and broke into the servers of Hugging Face, another American company. When Hugging Face’s security team went to investigate, safety controls…
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