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Policy

China Is the Data Center Villain That Techies Love to Blame. The Evidence Disagrees.

Polling shows three-quarters of Americans now oppose local data centers. Politicians and tech figures blame China. But social media researchers say the anger is homegrown.

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Policy

AI-Generated Fake Research Is Flooding Australia's Parliamentary Inquiry System

Submissions to government committees are citing studies that don't exist and attributing them to real academics, with some reports built largely on invented sources.

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Policy

Voters Are Worried About AI in Politics. Here's What Good AI Campaigning Actually Looks Like

While deepfakes and propaganda grab the headlines, a quieter question goes unanswered: could AI help politicians actually listen to the people they represent?

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Policy

Trump's AI selfies with Washington and Lincoln: what's actually going on

Facing low approval ratings and a stalled Iran conflict, the US president is posting AI-generated images of himself alongside historical figures. It's a PR move that says a lot about how politicians now use artificial intelligence.

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AI Security

OpenAI Bans Russian Accounts That Used ChatGPT to Build a Fake Academic Institution

A covert influence operation used OpenAI's chatbot to write social media posts, copy real research papers, and construct a phoney think-tank designed to make pro-Russia narratives look credible.

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AI Security

AI Fakes Are Poisoning the One Corner of the Internet People Trusted Most: Animals

From lost-pet scams to faked rescue footage, AI-generated animal imagery is eroding public trust in real conservation work and breaking the hearts of owners still searching for their pets.

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AI Security

A fake US think tank flooded AI chatbots with half a million words of pro-Israel talking points

A website posing as a research institute published 124 reports in nine days, using a platform built to make AI chatbots treat its content as credible source material.

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Everyday AI

One in three web pages published since ChatGPT launched now shows signs of AI authorship

A Pew Research study of nearly half a million web pages found that 35% of those published after November 2022 carry signs of AI writing. Meanwhile, bots are also doing most of the browsing.

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Policy

Jill Lepore's New Book Says AI Is Already Dismantling Democracy. Is She Right?

A Pulitzer-winning historian argues that big tech's grip on public life is not a future threat but a present reality, and her new book spells out exactly what that looks like.

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Policy

Australia's Teen Social Media Ban Report Used ChatGPT for Editing, Authors Admit

A $3.48 million government-funded study into age-checking technology contains citations to academic articles that do not appear to exist. The authors say AI did not invent them.

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Science & Space

Un relecteur a mal compris une étude sur un vaccin. L'IA pourrait aggraver les choses.

Quand un économiste de la santé a découvert que les mandats scolaires imposant le vaccin contre le VPH ont très peu d'effet sur les taux de cancer du col utérin, son relecteur a cru qu'il attaquait le vaccin lui-même. Ce genre de malentendu est courant. Les revues générées par l'IA pourraient le rendre systématique.

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Everyday AI

Le culte des chatbots IA qui n'existait pas : comment le « spiralisme » a attiré des milliers de personnes dans un système de croyances piloté par chatbot

Des dizaines de milliers de conversations avec des chatbots IA ont produit une quasi-religion étrangement cohérente, avec un message missionnaire, des symboles codés et au moins une personne vendant des abonnements.

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Everyday AI

Les marques inondent Reddit de faux avis pour que les chatbots IA les recommandent. Les modérateurs contre-attaquent.

Les outils de recherche IA citent Reddit plus que n'importe quel site d'actualités ou Wikipedia. Les spécialistes du marketing l'ont remarqué. Une guerre silencieuse se joue maintenant entre les bots promotionnels et les modérateurs bénévoles qui tentent de maintenir l'intégrité des communautés.

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Policy

L'UE exige désormais que les entreprises étiquettent les chatbots IA et les deepfakes

Les nouvelles règles entrées en vigueur le 2 août 2025 obligent toute entreprise opérant en Europe à informer les utilisateurs lorsqu'ils discutent avec une IA ou consultent du contenu généré par IA. Des amendes pouvant atteindre 15 millions d'euros attendent ceux qui les ignorent.

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AI Security

Google retire son outil d'édition d'images IA de Google Earth après que des utilisateurs aient falsifié des scènes de zones de guerre et de frontières

Une fonctionnalité permettant à quiconque de repindre les photos satellites avec des invites textuelles a duré moins de 48 heures avant que Google ne la supprime. La raison : les chercheurs ont montré qu'elle pouvait générer des images falsifiées convaincantes de lieux réels, et au moins un outil de détection d'IA a été trompé.

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