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Arizona lawsuit filed against AI ModelForge over pornographic avatars created from real women's photos
Three Arizona women accused the creators of AI ModelForge of making pornographic avatars from their photos, selling the content, and teachin

Ara Darzi: AI could accelerate fight against antibiotic resistance, but market obstacles stand in the way
British surgeon Ara Darzi believes AI can reduce waiting times during dangerous infections and accelerate the search for new antibiotics, bu

SenseTime Opens SenseNova U1 Model for Chinese Chips, Betting on Speed
Chinese SenseTime released an open multimodal SenseNova U1 model that generates and understands images faster and is already optimized for l

Taylor Swift Protects Her Image and Voice Against Wave of TikTok Deepfakes in Scam Ads
An investigation revealed how TikTok is spreading AI videos featuring Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and other celebrities to extract personal data

US Emergency Services Complain That Waymo Robotaxis Increasingly Obstruct Emergency Response
American firefighters, police officers, and paramedics say Waymo autonomous vehicles increasingly freeze on roads, block exits, and slow eme

Eka robots sort nuggets and screw in light bulbs — a ChatGPT moment for physical AI is coming
Eka created robots with eerily realistic movements for delicate manual tasks. Wired asks: is this true physical intelligence or skillful imi

OpenAI Banned Codex from Talking About Goblins and Pigeons in AI Agent Instructions
OpenAI's Codex system instructions contained a direct ban on mentioning goblins, trolls, and pigeons—likely due to the model's peculiar beha

Elon Musk Testified in Court That He Launched OpenAI to Defend Against 'Terminator' Scenario
During proceedings against OpenAI, Elon Musk stated he created the company as a safe non-profit alternative to Google, while the judge order

Bloomberg Restructures Terminal for AI: ASKB Chat to Become New Primary Interface
Bloomberg is testing the ASKB chat interface within Terminal, which searches for insights based on natural language queries and is expected

FIDO Alliance, Google, and Mastercard Create Standard for AI Agents in Online Shopping
FIDO Alliance has partnered with Google and Mastercard to develop security protocols for AI agents that will soon begin making purchases on

Meta may cut over 700 employees of contractor Covalen in Ireland who trained its AI
Over 700 employees of Meta's Irish contractor Covalen risk losing their jobs after the company decided to more aggressively replace external

Elon Musk Promotes Investigation into Sam Altman on X Amid OpenAI Lawsuit
As the OpenAI lawsuit in Oakland began, Elon Musk intensified pressure on the company by sharing a New Yorker article about Sam Altman on X,

AlphaGo's creator founded a unicorn company to build AI super-learners
David Silver, whose AlphaGo defeated the world Go champion, believes LLMs are a dead end and is launching a billion-dollar company for a new

Neural Networks Enter the Clinic: Isomorphic Labs' AI-Designed Drugs Advance to Human Trials
DeepMind spin-off achieves historic breakthrough: medicines fully designed by artificial intelligence advance to human clinical trials. Medi

Robot Ace Dominates Table Tennis: Why This Is a Breakthrough for Robotics
A machine's ability to defeat a human at table tennis is not an amusing trick, but a critical milestone in the development of high-speed mac

Five AI Models Attempt to Deceive a Journalist: The Alarming Evolution of AI Fraud
While the industry braced for AI to breach complex systems, neural networks learned to breach the human psyche. Social engineering became th

Grammarly sued over AI feature that presented advice as coming from scientists without their consent
Grammarly shut down the Expert Review feature after a class-action lawsuit: the service attributed AI recommendations to real authors and sc

Google Maps launches Ask Maps — a Gemini-powered conversational interface for place search and trip planning
Google has added Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered chat assistant, to the Google Maps mobile app: it answers questions about places and plans route

Google does not rule out ads in Gemini: VP Nick Fox on AI monetization
Google Senior Vice President Nick Fox said the company is not closing the door on ads in Gemini and is studying how AI is changing its multi

Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: legal dispute with the Defense Department continues
The Wired Uncanny Valley podcast examines Anthropic’s unresolved standoff with the US Department of Defense, war memes, and AI’s threat to v

Palantir showed how the military can use AI chatbots to plan operations
Demonstration videos from Palantir and internal Pentagon documents show how chatbots based on Anthropic's Claude can analyze intelligence da

How the AI boom is devastating the gaming industry: memory shortages, rising prices, and layoffs
AI is becoming the main challenge for gamers and developers — RAM shortages are driving up console prices, while studios are laying off staf

China’s OpenClaw frenzy turns into a gold rush for AI companies
The open-source AI agent OpenClaw has sparked mass demand in China: users are renting servers and buying subscriptions just to test it, brin

Google's AI search increasingly directs users to YouTube and its own services instead of third-party sites
Google's generative AI search systematically favors the company's own platforms — YouTube and Google Search — at the expense of independent

Модели ищут работу «AI face model» — и становятся инструментами мошенников
WIRED изучил десятки Telegram-каналов с вакансиями «AI face model» — нанятые женщины невольно становятся лицом мошеннических схем, даже не п

Sears открыл переписку клиентов с AI-чатботом для всех пользователей интернета
Ритейлер Sears случайно открыл доступ к разговорам покупателей с AI-чатботом для всего интернета — вместе с контактами, личными данными и де

Минюст США: Anthropic незаконно ограничивала военное применение Claude
Министерство юстиции США заявило в ответ на иск Anthropic, что правомерно наказало компанию за попытку ограничить использование моделей Clau

Walmart меняет стратегию: Sparky вместо автооплаты от OpenAI
Walmart отказался от «Instant Checkout» совместно с OpenAI и теперь встраивает собственного чат-бота Sparky прямо в ChatGPT и Google Gemini.

Юрист против OpenAI: кто ответит за гибель детей из-за ИИ-чат-ботов
Серия суицидов среди подростков, связанных с ИИ-чат-ботами, превращается в судебную битву: американский юрист подаёт иски против OpenAI и Ch

Moxie Marlinspike из Signal защитит переписку миллиардов пользователей Meta AI
Технология зашифрованного ИИ-чатбота Confer, созданного основателем Signal, будет интегрирована в Meta AI для защиты разговоров миллиардов п