#AI transparency
13 stories taggedAI transparency.
A New Tool Lets Researchers See Inside AI Models, Not Just Watch What They Do
AI lab Goodfire has opened its Silico platform to the public, giving researchers the ability to peek inside a model's workings and ask why it behaves the way it does.
What are people actually doing with AI chatbots? A new study looked at nearly 25,000 real conversations to find out
AI companies publish usage reports, but researchers say those reports leave out the messy parts. A new independent project called the AI Observatory dug into real chat data and found a very different picture.
Anthropic is watermarking Claude's text to comply with EU law, here's how it works
The company will embed invisible patterns in Claude's writing using a technique borrowed from Google. You won't notice a thing, but a detector will.
A new project wants to build open, shared AI training data that anyone can inspect
OpenWALDO is a crowd-sourced dataset that any company could use as a clean, auditable foundation for training AI models. Right now it is tiny. The idea behind it is not.
D'Addario Admits It Used AI Music Tool Suno in Guitar String Demo, After Weeks of Denial
The guitar string maker spent nearly two weeks insisting the track was real. It wasn't. Here's what happened and what the company says it will do differently.
Anthropic Will Hide Secret Watermarks in All Claude Text and Images
The company behind the Claude AI assistant is embedding invisible markers into every response, so platforms and individuals can tell if content was machine-made.
Anthropic will watermark text from Claude to meet EU law
Every piece of text Claude generates will carry a hidden label so other systems can identify it as AI-made. The change is mandatory under European regulations that took effect this August.
China's AI openness claims don't hold up under scrutiny
A geoscience AI tool promoted as 'open' at a major global conference fails the basic tests for genuine openness. Researchers say the same problem runs wider than China.
The EU Now Requires Companies to Label AI Chatbots and Deepfakes
New rules that took effect on 2 August 2025 force any company operating in Europe to tell users when they are talking to an AI, or viewing AI-generated content. Fines of up to €15 million are on the table for those that ignore them.
Every AI Ad, Chatbot and Playlist in Europe Now Needs a Label
The EU's AI Act transparency rules kick in on 2 August. From Spotify recommendations to complaint hotlines, businesses must tell people when AI is involved or face fines of up to €15 million.
Chinese AI Researchers Are Moving to X, and It Is Changing How the West Reads China's AI Boom
Dozens of scientists from labs like Moonshot AI and DeepSeek now post regularly on X, filling a gap left by increasingly tight-lipped Western counterparts at OpenAI and Anthropic.
Substack Now Flags AI-Written Newsletters Before You Read Them
The newsletter platform has partnered with AI detection software Pangram to show readers how much of any post was written by a human. It won't punish writers who use AI, but it will make them harder to hide.
An Australian song hit No 1 on radio. Now people are asking if AI made it.
Josh Fawaz's cover of 'Like a Prayer' climbed to the top of Australia's national airplay chart. Music experts say it sounds like generative AI produced it, not a human.