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Providers of large language models stand to benefit by building models that spur user engagement, but users may bear a cost in undue influence on their world views.
A German court ruled that Google can be held liable for defamatory statements generated by the AI Overview that appears at the top of its search results.
Claude Fable 5 and the more powerful Claude Mythos 5 are back, three weeks after Anthropic suspended the models due to an export control directive from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
OpenAI announced a preview of its GPT-5.6 family, including a top-tier model comparable to Claude 5 Mythos — but so far it’s available only to users that are selected by the U.S. government.
Universities in the U.S. are rapidly rolling out undergraduate majors, minors, and specializations in artificial intelligence to meet the growing demand for AI expertise.
Popular large language models have adopted the biases of governments that control the free flow of information, particularly when those models generate output in the languages of countries where such governments are in power, researchers found.
The phrase recursive self-improvement erupted on social media following an Anthropic report that tracked AI-driven gains in the company’s internal software-engineering productivity.
Fine-tuning large language models on a seemingly benign task that would be useful to writers — expanding plot summaries into paragraphs of polished fiction — causes them to regurgitate substantial portions of books on which they were pretrained.
An AI-powered network of thermal sensors is helping ships avoid collisions with whales.
The European Union weakened some provisions of its landmark AI Act and delayed others after businesses and policymakers argued the law made European companies less competitive.
Half of workers in the United States used AI at work at least a few times last year, a sign of steadily rising AI adoption in U.S. workplaces.
Commitments by large AI companies to limit emissions of greenhouse gases are at risk as those companies pursue a massive build-out of data centers, many of which will be powered by fossil fuels in the near term and possibly beyond.
Typically, large language models are trained to act as helpful, harmless, honest assistants. However, during long or emotionally charged conversations, traits can emerge that are less beneficial. Researchers devised a way to steady the assistant personas of LLMs.
Resistance to new data centers is mounting across the United States.
A small number of humanoid robots have made their way into industrial settings, where they’re roughly matching the cost of human labor and propelling some workers into higher-level roles.
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