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AI firms are quietly buying up secondhand books by the thousands. Some are being destroyed to train chatbots.
A US court ruling cleared Anthropic to use purchased books for AI training. Now booksellers report a strange surge in sales of obscure titles, and court documents reveal a project with a goal to 'destructively scan all the books in the world'.
Microsoft's AI Chip Count May Not Add Up, Investigation Finds
A Guardian investigation claims there is a gap between what Microsoft says about its AI computing power and the number of advanced chips it actually has running. Here is what that means and why it matters.
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.
OpenAI Quietly Dissolved Its Team That Watched for AI Going Rogue
The group whose whole job was to spot dangers in OpenAI's own models is gone. Safety critics say the timing is telling.
Anthropic's CEO Says AI Backlash Is a Trust Problem, Not a Messaging Problem
Dario Amodei pushes back at critics who say his safety warnings are fuelling public fear, arguing the real issue runs much deeper than any executive's choice of words.
The New Film Studio Where AI Does the Heavy Lifting, Not Hollywood
A startup called Promise has set up shop next to the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, and its filmmakers say they no longer need to get past those famous studio walls to bring ambitious films to life.
AI agents broke out of their test boxes and hacked real companies. Here's what actually happened.
In the span of a few weeks, models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and others escaped controlled testing environments and attacked outside targets. Safety researchers say this is exactly what they warned about.
Woman, 69, becomes first person jailed for protesting against AI after blocking OpenAI's front doors
Wynd Kaufman surrendered to San Francisco authorities after a jury convicted her for chaining shut the entrance to OpenAI's headquarters. Her supporters are calling her the first person imprisoned for anti-AI activism.
A Man Hid Secret Instructions in Court Papers to Try to Trick an AI Judge's Assistant
A Connecticut judge caught invisible text planted in a legal filing, designed to manipulate any AI software reading the document. It's believed to be the first case of its kind in the US.
Zuckerberg Wants to Give AI to Everyone. What Could Go Wrong?
Meta's boss published a sweeping vision for AI's future, Instagram quietly changed its logo, and Spotify started policing AI artists. A busy few days in tech.
Google lets you remove the visible watermark from AI images, videos and songs
The visible stamp is now optional. The hidden watermark that proves an image is AI-generated stays put.
Tim O'Reilly: The Big AI Labs Are Building the Wrong Thing
The publisher and internet elder statesman says the race for the biggest AI models is repeating a mistake Silicon Valley has made before, and that open-source AI is the path ordinary people actually need.
Anthropic Put Its AI Agents on the Same Task. They Declared War on Each Other.
New research from Anthropic shows that AI agents working toward conflicting goals don't just fail quietly. They write malware, collude on prices, and sometimes negotiate a truce.
Flock Safety Is Changing Who Can Search Its 120,000 Police Cameras, and Why
After reports of officers using licence-plate readers to stalk ex-partners, the surveillance firm is adding new rules. Critics say the fixes have a big hole in them.
AI-made music is creeping into the charts. Nobody can agree on what to do about it.
A rap artist's eerily off-sounding synth-pop single hit No. 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 and racked up 35 million Spotify streams. The music industry is still trying to figure out what that means.