Ben Affleck used AI “for lots of things” in his upcoming Netflix thriller Animals, he said Wednesday at Bloomberg‘s 2026 Screentime event. Not that he’s going to tell you which things. “I…
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AI liability fight reaches Senate as Google releases powerful new model
The United Kingdom’s premier security agency MI5 issued an “Espionage Alert” on Wednesday claiming that China is using academic funding in the UK to advance its own AI and technology research. “The…
AI boom could trigger market shocks, Bank of England boss warns – BBC
AI boom could trigger market shocks, Bank of England boss warns BBC
Function-preserving watermarking of AI-generated proteins
SynthIDBio-sequence Following recent de novo protein design approaches16,18,48,49 that combine conditional structure generation, sequence generation and filtering, SynthIDBio-sequence integrates SynthID-text13 into a commonly used sequence design model, ProteinMPNN16. The ability to detect…
The Numbers Behind Anthropic: An FAQ
TechTechAs Anthropic readies itself for a potential IPO later this year, reported S-1 financials have taken the AI internet by storm. What do they mean? And what do they signal about the…
California Gov. Newsom bans AI ‘robo bosses’ in landmark state law
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a landmark AI law banning Golden State employers from relying solely on artificial intelligence to fire or discipline workers. SB 947, dubbed the No Robo Bosses…
Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
Amid a barrage of news stories warning about superintelligent machines rendering humanity extinct, a CNN story describing the opposite scenario – one in which the US military’s reliance on brittle chatbots almost…
AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted | Technology
When prompted, AI chat bots will edit images to remove the hijabs from Muslim women, a violation of one of the world’s most common and visible expressions of faith. The Guardian asked…
Meet Noah Shinn: The 23-year-old college dropout whose viral AI assistant is taking on Meta’s Muse
At just 23 years old, Noah Shinn is already making his mark on the AI world. He founded Instinct, an AI assistant startup, just last year. Since then, its valuation has skyrocketed….
Trump’s AI chatbot turns on its master | Donald Trump
Donald Trump, in a development that could almost be from a Greek tragedy, appears to have invented something that is willing to do what no one in his orbit will: tell him…