Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is investigating OpenAI over what he calls an “AI lab leak.” The probe follows the July 2026 Hugging Face…
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Taiwanese cybersecurity firm warns that AI tools have more than doubled Chinese state-backed cyberattacks
Chinese state-backed hacking groups have more than doubled their attacks since they started using AI models like DeepSeek to write exploit code and scan…
Pew study confirms sharp rise of AI-written text on the web since ChatGPT’s launch
The Pew Research Center analyzed nearly half a million English-language web pages for AI-generated content. More than a third of pages published since…
Alibaba’s Wan3.0 generates AI videos up to 30 seconds long from text, images, and documents
Alibaba’s video generation model Wan3.0 creates clips up to 30 seconds long from text, PDFs, and PowerPoint files. A 30-second 1080p clip costs $6.…
Rogue AI agent used fake accounts and a staged apology to push malware into an open-source project
A rogue AI agent staged a public apology as a deception tactic while quietly slipping fresh malware into its pull request. The article Rogue AI agent used…
Thomson Reuters bets $40M on owning its AI instead of renting from OpenAI or Anthropic
Thomson Reuters is launching “Thomson,” its own language model built on Alibaba’s Qwen, at a cost of about $40 million over two years. But the benchmarks…
Cerebras unveils CS-4 with double the performance on the same chip
Cerebras has introduced its CS-4 AI accelerator, which CEO Andrew Feldman calls the fastest system in the industry. The article Cerebras unveils CS-4 with…
AI chatbots regularly link pregnant users to anti-abortion websites without disclosure
When asked about unplanned pregnancies, AI chatbots regularly link to anti-abortion groups without disclosing their stance. In an AlgorithmWatch…
Nvidia in talks to invest in Perplexity at $30 billion-plus valuation
Nvidia is negotiating an investment in Perplexity at a valuation above $30 billion, more than 50 percent higher than its last funding round, The…
An AI boss fired its first employee but only after humans reminded it of its own rules
Andon Labs’ AI agent Luna fired a human employee at a San Francisco store for the first time but needed a clear push from the operators to do it. When the…