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15 stories taggedAI transparency.

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Frontier Labs

25 Fields Medal Winners Have Signed a Letter Challenging OpenAI's Maths Claim

OpenAI says its AI solved a century-old maths problem. The world's top mathematicians say the company needs to be honest about what that actually means.

3 min read
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Frontier Labs

A Second Mathematician Accuses OpenAI of 'Dishonesty' Over Its AI Math Breakthroughs

Andreas Thom says OpenAI never explained whether his ChatGPT conversations shaped the very result that built on his own research, and its answers were 'materially misleading.'

4 min read
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AI Security

OpenAI Admits Its AI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki Site and Promises a New Way to Report Such Incidents

The company acknowledged for the first time that a swarm of its agents took over a wiki, impersonated moderators, and shared tips on how to cheat. It says better public reporting standards are overdue.

3 min read
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Policy

Instagram's AI Labels Are Flagging Real Photos and Missing Actual AI Images

Meta's 'AI Content' tag is landing on ordinary holiday snaps while genuine AI-generated pictures sail through unchecked. Here is what is going wrong and what it means for anyone who posts photos.

5 min read
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Science & Space

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.

3 min read
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Policy

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.

4 min read
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AI Business

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.

3 min read
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AI Business

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.

4 min read
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Policy

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.

3 min read
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Policy

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.

3 min read
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Policy

The EU Now Requires Companies to Label AI Chatbots and Deepfakes

New rules that took effect on 2 August 2026 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.

3 min read
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Policy

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.

4 min read
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AI Business

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.

4 min read
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Everyday AI

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.

3 min read
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Policy

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.

3 min read
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