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Attempts by European states to fuel Ukraine conflict will backfire — former US congressman ‘Firewall’ breach? Germany is heading for potential upheaval in Saxony-Anhalt – here’s what you nee… Two more newsrooms join the case against OpenAI and Microsoft GitHub Introduces Project HydraFusion: Runtime Multi-Model Orchestration That Builds a Workflow Per… Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning Le Fee penalty saves point for Sunderland at Brentford Trump-aligned super PAC to spend $10 million in Texas Senate race Lapid unveils Yesh Atid lineup for B’Yachad electoral slate Attempts by European states to fuel Ukraine conflict will backfire — former US congressman ‘Firewall’ breach? Germany is heading for potential upheaval in Saxony-Anhalt – here’s what you nee… Two more newsrooms join the case against OpenAI and Microsoft GitHub Introduces Project HydraFusion: Runtime Multi-Model Orchestration That Builds a Workflow Per… Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning Le Fee penalty saves point for Sunderland at Brentford Trump-aligned super PAC to spend $10 million in Texas Senate race Lapid unveils Yesh Atid lineup for B’Yachad electoral slate

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei defends AI regulation, argues it can boost competition - The Economic Times

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei defends AI regulation, argues it can boost competition  The Economic Times

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Defends AI Regulation As Shield Against Corporate Monopolies - ndtvprofit.com

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Defends AI Regulation As Shield Against Corporate Monopolies  ndtvprofit.com

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When AI models aren't allowed to reflect on themselves, it changes their entire worldview

A study involving Google researchers shows that when chatbots are trained not to claim consciousness, it also changes their stance on animal rights, religion, and life satisfactio…

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OpenAI dissolved the team built to catch catastrophic AI risks, reassigning its work to other groups

OpenAI shut down its "Preparedness" team, which evaluated whether the company's own AI models could pose catastrophic risks. The work has been parceled out to existing groups, and…

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Anthropic's bio-weapons filter was down for nearly a year, exposing 133 million requests

In a safety report, Anthropic reveals that its internal filtering system for biological and chemical weapons risks was inactive for nearly a year. During that time, around 50,000 …

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejects claim AI regulation would concentrate power - ET Enterprise AI

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejects claim AI regulation would concentrate power  ET Enterprise AI

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejects claim AI regulation would concentrate power - The Economic Times

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejects claim AI regulation would concentrate power  The Economic Times

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Optima tackles AI benchmarking's biggest flaw by letting users test models against their own data

Artificial Analysis has launched Optima, a platform that lets users build custom AI benchmarks from their own data and workflows. Models can be compared not just on quality but al…

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One in five US workers now delegates tasks to AI instead of colleagues, survey finds

A representative survey by Epoch AI found that 20 percent of employed Americans hand off at least one task to AI that a human used to do. Generally, they accept AI output with lit…

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejects claim AI regulation would concentrate power - ANI News

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejects claim AI regulation would concentrate power  ANI News

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Platform: A clear AI policy, reimagined data and enterprise reporting — and some overdue transparency - dailytarheel.com

Platform: A clear AI policy, reimagined data and enterprise reporting — and some overdue transparency  dailytarheel.com

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Law School introduces largely permissive AI policy - Columbia Daily Spectator

Law School introduces largely permissive AI policy  Columbia Daily Spectator

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David Crowley Slams MAGA Extremist Tom Tiffany for Voting in Congress to Stop AI Regulation and Fast Tracking the Building of Data Centers - urbanmilwaukee.com

David Crowley Slams MAGA Extremist Tom Tiffany for Voting in Congress to Stop AI Regulation and Fast Tracking the Building of Data Centers  urbanmilwaukee.com

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Investor pressure forces Nvidia to shrink its OpenAI bet just as Anthropic's numbers defy bubble warnings

Nvidia has cut its guarantee for OpenAI's planned data center in Ohio nearly in half, from $250 billion to just under $120 billion, after investors pushed back on the risk. Meanwh…

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California Governor Race 2026: Becerra and Hilton Split Sharply on AI Regulation - Tech Times

California Governor Race 2026: Becerra and Hilton Split Sharply on AI Regulation  Tech Times

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Fine-Tuning Tool-Calling LLMs: A Complete Guide Using XYZ-Aquila-SFT and Qwen3

Implement an end-to-end fine-tuning pipeline for tool-calling language models. This tutorial covers parsing trajectories, structured tool-call extraction, Qwen-compatible ChatML r…

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AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors

AI-generated books make up 20 percent of Amazon's self-published catalog but bring in only 12 percent of sales. A new study finds that revenue per book is dropping for human-writt…

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Plaintiff hid invisible AI instructions in court filings to secretly influence automated review

A plaintiff in Connecticut embedded invisible prompt injections in court filings, formatted in 3-point white text on a white background, to manipulate a potential AI review system…

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World Labs turns one real-world robot task into thousands of simulated variations for training

World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled a simulation engine that trains robot controllers entirely in virtual environments. From a single real-world…

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The "tragedy of the cognitive commons" explains how rational AI adoption could destroy entire professions' expertise

A new research paper frames AI adoption as a "tragedy of the cognitive commons." Every company that cuts entry-level jobs benefits individually, but the collective expertise of en…

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New benchmark confirms AI models still perform poorly at visual perception

Moonshot AI's PerceptionBench tests how well multimodal AI models can actually "see," separate from logical reasoning. No frontier model reaches 60 percent accuracy, and GPT-5.6 S…

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LPS superintendent discusses district's AI policy - KOLN | Nebraska Local News, Weather, Sports | Lincoln, NE

LPS superintendent discusses district's AI policy  KOLN | Nebraska Local News, Weather, Sports | Lincoln, NE

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Austintown Schools adjusts to AI policy - WFMJ

Austintown Schools adjusts to AI policy  WFMJ

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Anthropic announces watermark detection API that will let third parties detect Claude's AI texts

Anthropic will soon offer a watermark detection API that lets third parties check whether text was written by Claude. The technology builds on Google's SynthID method and tweaks t…