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Reputably an "AI rock star". Though the only rock star'ish thing he's ever done is getting banned indefinitely from Russia.

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Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

Grammarly is using our identities without permission www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

08.03.2026 22:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Algorithmic game theory Algorithmic game theory offers vital tools for fair decision-making and efficient resource alloca...

Join a fascinating summer school on algorithmic game theory projects.croucher.org.hk/summer-cours...

05.03.2026 16:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Human Fracking, AI and the Capture of Attention with D. Graham Burnett Get Tickets on Humanitix - Human Fracking, AI and the Capture of Attention with D. Graham Burnett hosted by Small Giants Academy. Online. Thursday 5th March 2026. Find event information.

Human Fracking, AI and the Capture of Attention with D. Graham Burnett events.humanitix.com/human-fracki...

05.03.2026 05:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Toby Walsh on the Six Ideas You Need to Understand AI Sydney Writers' Festival | Hear world-leading researcher in artificial intelligence, Toby Walsh, trace the origins of AI in science and culture with the six key ideas you need to understand.

Toby Walsh on the Six Ideas You Need to Understand AI www.events.unsw.edu.au/article/toby...

03.03.2026 12:24 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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App stores, search engines in eSafety's sights over AI age rules Australia's internet regulator may push search engines and app stores to block artificial intelligence services that fail to verify user ages after a review found more than half had not made public an...

App stores, search engines in eSafety’s sights over AI age rules www.innovationaus.com/app-stores-s...

03.03.2026 02:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

28.02.2026 11:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Perhaps Anthropic's fight with Department of War is just to distract from them backtracking on safety?

Anthropic no longer requires new models to have adequate safety measures in place if it judges that it is not leading the global AI race.

28.02.2026 09:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump orders US agencies to stop use of Anthropic technology amid dispute over ethics of AI Hours after exclusion of Anthropic, OpenAI announces fresh Pentagon deal, but says it will maintain same safety guardrails at the heart of the dispute

Of course, we should never use large language models to control lethal autonomous weapons. And the US military have promised to keep appropriate levels of human judgment over the use of force. LLMs are not that! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

28.02.2026 05:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ElevenLabs — License Legendary Voices - I conic Marketplace License AI voices and IP of history's most iconic figures for your creative projects. Request licensing for entertainment legends, sports heroes, musical pioneers, and transformative historical figure...

I somehow doubt that commercially licensing Alan Turing's voice generated by AI (as ElevenLabs is doing) honours his remarkable legacy. Seems all a bit grubby to me. elevenlabs.io/iconic-marke...

26.02.2026 21:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity You don’t “train a human.”

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

26.02.2026 12:34 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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AI blamed for software job cuts, other industries bracing for change - ABC listen The fears that rapidly developing AI technology will steal human jobs are already being realised, with software logistics firm Wisetech the latest to announce big cuts to its workforce.

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

26.02.2026 12:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Instagram now alerts parents if their teen searches for suicide or self-harm content | TechCrunch Parents will be informed if their teen searches for suicide or self-harm content and offered resources.

Shouldn't all platforms do this? techcrunch.com/2026/02/26/i... via @techcrunch

26.02.2026 12:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Treasury calls in Blair thinktank to advise on using AI across public services Unimpressed tech equity campaigners compare move to ‘inviting in foxes to consult on the future of the henhouse’

I suspect this won't end well.

“inviting in foxes to consult on the future of the henhouse”.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

26.02.2026 12:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Big Tech’s AI original sin: pirating my books without compensation All of us will profit if we ensure AI training data is licensed, and writers, musicians and artists will continue to have a livelihood.

Big tech's original sin. www.afr.com/technology/b...

24.02.2026 20:13 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

24.02.2026 09:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Meta AI alignment director shares her OpenClaw email-deletion nightmare: 'I had to RUN to my Mac mini' Meta alignment director Summer Yue hooked OpenClaw up to her inbox. Then, the bot tried to delete her emails. Yue chalked it up to a "rookie mistake."

Fills you with confidence that META's head of AI safety makes this rookie mistake .... www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-alig...

23.02.2026 20:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science Preprint repositories and conference organizers are having to counter a tide of ‘AI slop’ submissions.

How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

23.02.2026 08:54 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

You would have thought once would be more than enough?

Testimony from one former top safety executive at Meta, alongside internal documentation, claimed Meta once had a “17x” strike policy for accounts engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex”.

23.02.2026 08:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No it doesn't.

It costs only 0.02 GWh to train a human (energy in 20 years of food) compared to around 50 GWh to train GPT5.

Altman is once again talking out of his posterior ...

22.02.2026 01:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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You Are No Longer the Smartest Type of Thing on Earth Rapidly advancing artificial intelligence means we may end up being one of the very last generations to remember what it was like for humans to be in the driver’s seat of the universe, writes Noah Smi...

AI boomers and doomers alike mistake intelligence for power.

The most intelligent person in the room is frequently not the most powerful.
www.thefp.com/p/you-are-no...

17.02.2026 02:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Google puts users at risk by downplaying health disclaimers under AI Overviews Exclusive: Google fails to include safety warnings when users are first presented with AI-generated medical advice

Usual service from tech giants www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

16.02.2026 07:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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UK ad agencies undergo their biggest exodus of staff as AI threatens industry Number of employees declined by more than 14% to 24,963 last year, with fall greatest among younger workers

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

14.02.2026 23:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Scientia Professor Toby Walsh February 25, 2026 @ 11:30 am - 1:30 pm - Professor Toby Walsh, Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales,...

The Race for AI: Boom or Doom?

Please join me for a provocative address to the National Press Club on Feb 25th. npc.org.au/events/scien...

12.02.2026 22:06 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Spotify, major labels file $13b lawsuit over alleged music scraping Spotify and the world's three biggest record labels have launched sweeping legal action against Anna’s Archive, accusing the site of copying tens of millions of songs and preparing to release...

www.thenews.com.pk/latest/13913...

12.02.2026 07:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘At 2am, it feels like someone’s there’: why Nigerians are choosing chatbots to give them advice and therapy With many unable to access or afford qualified therapists, AI is filling the mental healthcare vacuum, amid calls for tighter regulation

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

12.02.2026 07:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | Don’t Trust the Rankings That Put China’s Universities on Top

Don’t Trust the Rankings That Put China’s Universities on Top www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...

11.02.2026 18:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The big AI job swap: why white-collar workers are ditching their careers As AI job losses rise in the professional sector, many are switching to more traditional trades. But how do they feel about accepting lower pay – and giving up a dream career?

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

11.02.2026 12:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Legislature passes new artificial intelligence law - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Taiwan's new national AI law. www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...

09.02.2026 03:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pentagon Makes Largest Known Arms Purchase From Israel — For Banned Cluster Weapons The contract for the controversial weapons known for high civilian death tolls is the largest of its kind in available government records.

Pentagon Makes Largest Known Arms Purchase From Israel — For Banned Cluster Weapons
theintercept.com/2026/02/06/p...

09.02.2026 00:44 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren’t Allowed I went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies.

www.wired.com/story/i-infi...

05.02.2026 09:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0