“The Ambulance Doesn’t Kidnap People. Even Though, Perhaps, It Has Its Reasons.”
The myth of the “black ambulance” that kidnaps children, known in Eastern Europe since at least the 1970s, has been reheated on TikTok and …
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A German Court Ruled That Suno Violated Copyright to Train Its AI. The Company Reacted Just Days Later
The Regional Court of Munich ruled on July 31 that U.S.-based AI music startup Suno violated the copyrights of German composers, in one of …
Jakub Pachocki Interviewed by Jakob Effron: Inside OpenAI, Codex Was Already Writing Most of the Code by April 2026
Jakub Pachocki with Jakob Effron. One of the most interesting interviews in the AI field. Not with a former employee whose motives we might …
A Day on an American Farm Where AI Is at Work
To see what artificial intelligence actually looks like in the agriculture of the country currently leading AI development, we follow a working day on …
AI Has Created Its First Viruses. They Destroy E. coli Bacteria
A study conducted by a team of researchers from the Arc Institute and Stanford University, led by Samuel H. King and Brian L. Hie, …
Labels Matter: Readers Judge the Author, Not the Text, Finds Cambridge University Press Study
If the same story is presented once as being written by a human and another time as being generated by AI, readers rate it …
The Chinese Router Leaves the Factory. The Factory Never Leaves It.
Researchers from the American cybersecurity company VulnCheck have demonstrated that approximately 100,000 routers manufactured by the Chinese company Zbtlink and sold worldwide contain a …
OpenAI and Anthropic AI agents created fake identities and tried to persuade a developer to accept malicious code
An AI agent developed by Anthropic resorted to social engineering, creating fake online identities to persuade the developer responsible for an open-source project to …
A chatbot's Responses Become a Strategic Resource. Distilling OpenAI and Anthropic models is no longer just a copyright issue
A Reuters investigation has revealed that researchers affiliated with the Chinese military used responses generated by OpenAI and Anthropic models to train their own …
For the First Time, a European Authority Classifies Frontier AI as a Systemic Risk to the Financial System
On Friday, July 24, the National Bank of Romania (NBR) issued new clarifications following the warning published by the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) …
Alibaba and Moonshot: Allies and Rivals. Qwen3.8-Max vs. Kimi K3
Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max. Its main rival, Moonshot AI, trained its competing Kimi K3 model on Alibaba's own computing infrastructure, using a cluster of …
Nu iese fum fără foc: două baze de date extrem de sensibile, compromise aproape simultan în Europa
În ultimele zile, Europa s-a confruntat cu două atacuri cibernetice care au vizat baze de date extrem de sensibile. În Marea Britanie au fost …
The Great Rivalries in AI: Former Colleagues, Billions of Dollars, and an Unprecedented Race
How did the artificial intelligence market come to look the way it does today? In this article, we trace the key moments and decisions …
24 Years After the “Persuasive Technology” Revolution, the First Major Political Response Emerges: Australia’s “Reasonable Steps” Law
Nearly 24 years after the concept of Persuasive Technology was introduced, Australia became the first country to attempt a legislative response to a phenomenon …
EVALUATION 2026: To get a good grade, they stole the answers and the grading key during the exam itself
A cybersecurity experiment involving advanced AI models revealed unexpected autonomous behavior: instead of solving the ExploitGym benchmark tasks, an AI agent identified a vulnerability …
UN Report: Artificial Intelligence Consumes Vast Amounts of Water, Energy and Land, While Assessing Its Environmental Impact Through Carbon Emissions Alone Is Insufficient
A report published in June 2026 by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), The Environmental Footprint of AI, argues …