AI Safety & Policy
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OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used Chatbot to Help Plant Recordingβ8
An OpenAI engineer allegedly used a chatbot to help plant a covert recording device in an executive meeting room, raising insider threat concerns for AI compani...
OpenAI and Anthropic Tell British Lawmakers: Regulate Usβ9
OpenAI and Anthropic urge British lawmakers to impose stricter AI regulation, warning of growing risks as Britain's spy chief flags bioweapon threats.
Wikipedians Believed AI Would Come and Go. They Were Wrongβ9
Wikipediaβs decline under AI Overviews reveals a deeper loss: the collapse of the reader-to-editor feedback loop that sustains transparent, decentralized knowle...
Pro-AI Super PAC Network Funnels Millions Through Nevada Shellβ8
Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future routes millions through Nevada shell companies, raising transparency concerns as AI policy shapes 2026 midterms.
Elon Musk Brags About Grok Lego Star Wars HaulβThen X Users Punk Himβ9
Elon Muskβs Grok Lego Star Wars brag backfires on X as users expose AI-generated images and security flaws, sparking #GrokGate mockery and expert warnings.
Muse Wonder Puts Meta Back at the AI Frontierβ8
Meta's Muse Wonder model rivals top AI systems from OpenAI and Google, achieving state-of-the-art results with new safeguards to keep autonomous agents under co...
I Made Terrible Games With Google's AI Playgroundβ7
Boone Ashworth tests Google's AI Playground and finds it can spin up playable games fast, but the results are repetitive, buggy, and gloriously bad.
AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminalsβ9
Anti-cybercrime groups are deploying AI-powered honeypots to scam the scammers, wasting fraudsters' time, extracting intelligence, and disrupting criminal opera...
Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AIβand Staff Are Pushing Backβ9
Book publishers are quietly adopting AI for publicity, cover art, and copy, while staff push back over creative integrity, job losses, and transparency.
Even Law & Order Is Terrified of AIβ10
Law & Order's Season 26 premiere takes on AI, portraying power-mad tech CEOs as villains in a ripped-from-the-headlines courtroom drama about artificial intelli...