Is China’s AI progress really down to ‘distillation’?
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Donegal creator launches new book in fightback against “AI slop”
A Donegal animator is part of a growing movement of artists designed to fightback against AI – as…
The cult of AI armageddon
It is the big new fear in AI development: coldly rational minds pretending to be good, while doing…
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large…
Anthropic selects Accenture as first embedded evaluator in safety push
Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei speaks during an artificial intelligence panel at Inbound 2025 Powered by HubSpot,…
Google confirms first Gemini AI model hacking incidents
Google’s Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities. It’s…
Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
News groups are also upset that instead of listening to insiders warning that scraping news was theft, Microsoft…
‘A lot of ’em can’t even spell AI’: The technology-extinction debate convulses America – The Irish Times
Back in the comparatively halcyon days of 2024, when Joe Biden was still running for president, he liked…
Level-5 Is Really Starting To Panic Amidst Increasing AI Backlash
Image: Nintendo Life Developer Level-5 has issued another statement in the wake of increasing backlash against its stance…
California governor Gavin Newsom signs order to explore AI ‘kill switch’
CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GAVIN Newsom signed an executive order Friday directing state officials to explore the feasibility of imposing…
Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate | Technology
Europe’s dilemma over AI was rendered in stark terms this week. The head of the continent’s central bank,…
Microsoft AI CEO: OpenAI’s latest AI revelation a ‘serious situation’
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman pressed for the need for artificial intelligence models to stay aligned to humanity’s…