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Vatican AI adviser Paolo Benanti has warned that emotionally responsive AI could manipulate children in ways he considers potentially worse than addictions such as nicotine or cocaine. The comparison is…
Behind some ChatGPT responses sits a distinctly human layer. Documents obtained by 404 Media describe Project Lily, an OpenAI program in which contractors review real conversations and judge how the…
Europe lacks a homegrown frontier AI industry on the scale of the leading US labs, but it increasingly possesses something else: regulatory authority over models entering its market, technical evaluation…
The Philippines plans to expand AI-oriented data-center capacity from about 50 MW to 1.5 GW by 2033 under a $34.4 billion national infrastructure roadmap. Around $21 billion is expected from…
A proposed US class action accuses Meta of extracting biometric information from Facebook and Instagram photos to develop its unreleased NameTag facial-recognition system and AI image models. NameTag code was…
The iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199 in the US, but buyers elsewhere can pay substantially more for the same device. Counterpoint Research says Turkey is nearly twice as expensive,…
Recent agent incidents have pushed AI extinction risk into the mainstream. But researchers are not really arguing over whether AI is dangerous. They disagree over what today’s evidence tells us…
Public Data for Health is a program designed to create and preserve open biological datasets for AI research. Projects include drug-property measurements through OpenADMET, regulatory records from failed biotech programs…
Salesforce and Nvidia have introduced Koa, a CRM reasoning model built by post-training Nvidia’s open-weight Nemotron 3 Super 120B on synthetic enterprise workflows. Salesforce says Koa can match or beat…
Spain’s AEPD has received its first reported personal-data breach allegedly executed by an AI agent. The unnamed system reportedly logged into a target, autonomously searched for vulnerabilities, altered personal data…