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Peter Thiel says the pope’s AI criticism benefits “Chinese communists”
The pope said AI shouldn’t be concentrated in the hands of the few.
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Jodie Foster says Brad Pitt’s F1 felt like “an AI-made movie” written by a machine
Making the aside during an ideas festival, the Oscar-winning actress implied that it would soon become difficult to distinguish polished, formulaic movies from AI.
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Open source game engine Godot tightens AI rules as backlog strain mounts
AI tools may be used for limited tasks like code completion, but ‘vibe coding’ is no longer allowed… maintainers do not want to talk to a machine.
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Tripadvisor buries reports of food poisoning and sexual harassment
AI summaries to blame?
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SpaceX “showed AI device ahead of IPO” despite Musk denial
“Utterly false,” Must wrote on X.
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Trump National Design Studio .gov revamp reported to have major usability flaws
A year in, the project is showing major problems with design, usability, and performance.
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“Anthropic’s BS just doesn’t cut it”: Palantir CEO's live TV meltdown slams AI firms "insane" business models
During a rambling CNBC interview, Palantir’s CEO slammed the business models of leading US AI developers as “effing insane,” saying companies are charged for tokens even as AI providers may gain access to valuable business secrets.
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OpenAI sued over claims ChatGPT worsened manic episode and reinforced Jesus Christ delusion
A California man sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday, claiming the company's ChatGPT platform exacerbated his bipolar disorder due to a lack of safeguards for users with mental illness.
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Buckle up, people: some executives are already sick of AI
Executives still profess enthusiasm for AI adoption, asking employees to use it across the board. But beneath the surface, a sort of mass entrepreneurial discontent is brewing – one boss simply banned the use of AI in their company, and another threatened to instantly fire anyone caught using it.
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OpenAI suggests 5% stake for US government in AI firms, FT reports
OpenAI has discussed giving the US government a 5% stake, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, as AI firms face growing scrutiny in Washington over the potential misuse of advanced models and whether Americans will share in the sector's profits.
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Spain blacklists Palantir while NATO embraces its Maven Smart System
The Spanish government is concerned about Palantir handling classified information linked to national security.
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Claude Code apparently uses code to detect Chinese users: Is this fine?
Is Anthropic a dystopian company? After the AI giant confirmed it has been using hidden code in Claude Code to detect Chinese users – purportedly to prevent distillation attempts by Chinese AI labs – that’s a question worth asking. But the answer is a big fat no, it seems.
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Tidal becomes first music streaming platform to stop paying royalties for fully AI-generated songs
Tidal will no longer pay out royalties to artists whose songs are fully generated with artificial intelligence (AI).
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US restores access to Anthropic's powerful Mythos, Fable AI models
In a dramatic turnaround, Anthropic says the US government has rolled back weeks-long export restrictions that had blocked the AI startup from exporting its über-powerful Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models over national security concerns.
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Anthropic launches Claude Science, unveils cheaper Sonnet 5 AI model
Anthropic on Tuesday dives headfirst into scientific research with the launch of Claude Science – an all-in-one AI workspace designed to “accelerate the pace of scientific discovery” – while also unveiling Claude Sonnet 5, its latest frontier AI model built for more autonomous coding and research tasks.
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Proton upgrades privacy-focused chatbot to rival Big Tech AI models in European sovereignty push
Swiss privacy company Proton has launched a major upgrade to Lumo, its AI chatbot, as Europe accelerates efforts to build sovereign AI services that reduce reliance on US technology giants.
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Bank of England considers emergency AI brakes to stop market meltdown
The Bank of England on Tuesday signalled the need for bespoke AI regulation to contain risks to the financial system posed by increasingly capable agentic systems, in a potential shift in its approach to overseeing the technology.
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Every search you make, it’s watching: this malicious Chrome extension captures AI query keystrokes
A fake AI chatbot extension for Chrome-based browsers was secretly intercepting users’ searches to harvest their data without disrupting the search experience.
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Philip Morris used AI to fake consumer opposition to EU vape rules
American tobacco company Philip Morris has been accused of using AI to generate fake citizen responses against the tightening of vape rules in the EU.
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China’s new unfiltered AI Is a hacker’s budget dream
A new Chinese AI model, GLM-5.2, is attracting attention because experts say it performs almost as well as some of the world's best AI systems on cybersecurity tasks.
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