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Elon Musk loses his $134 billion lawsuit against OpenAI after jury deliberates for just two hours
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Elon Musk loses his $134 billion lawsuit against OpenAI after jury deliberates for just two hours

Elon Musk's $134 billion lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman was dismissed by a jury in Oakland after just two hours...

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Elon Musk Loses Landmark Lawsuit Against OpenAI
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Elon Musk Loses Landmark Lawsuit Against OpenAI

Elon Musk lost a landmark lawsuit against OpenAI, with a nine-member panel reaching a verdict in favor of OpenAI in...

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Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
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Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI after a California jury unanimously decided his claims were...

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Pope Leo XIV presents first AI encyclical, Anthropic co-founder invited as guest speaker
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Pope Leo XIV presents first AI encyclical, Anthropic co-founder invited as guest speaker

Pope Leo XIV will present his first encyclical on artificial intelligence on May 25, with Anthropic co-founder...

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A Stanford student reflects on his ChatGPT class and a culture of "just a little bit of fraud"
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A Stanford student reflects on his ChatGPT class and a culture of "just a little bit of fraud"

Stanford student Theo Baker discusses how ChatGPT and AI have intensified an existing culture of academic dishonesty at...

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MAGA-aligned groups want government oversight of frontier AI models
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MAGA-aligned groups want government oversight of frontier AI models

A coalition of conservative organizations led by Humans First has urged President Trump to issue an executive order...

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Anthropic to brief global financial regulators on cyber flaws found by Claude Mythos
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Anthropic to brief global financial regulators on cyber flaws found by Claude Mythos

Anthropic will brief global finance ministries and central banks on cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the financial...

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Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial
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Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial

The Elon Musk-OpenAI trial's final days focused on questions about the trustworthiness of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The...

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University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt’s AI cheerleading during commencement
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University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt’s AI cheerleading during commencement

Eric Schmidt delivered a commencement address at the University of Arizona where students booed his optimistic remarks...

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Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch warns France against letting Anthropic's Mythos scan military code bases
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Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch warns France against letting Anthropic's Mythos scan military code bases

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch warns France against allowing US AI models like Anthropic's systems to scan military code...

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Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work
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Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work

ArXiv, a major research repository, is implementing stricter policies against the misuse of large language models in...

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YouTube opens its deepfake face-swap detection tool to all adult creators
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YouTube opens its deepfake face-swap detection tool to all adult creators

YouTube has expanded its Likeness Detection tool to all creators aged 18 and older, allowing them to identify...

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YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake detection tool to all adult users
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YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake detection tool to all adult users

YouTube is expanding its AI-powered deepfake detection tool to all users over 18, allowing people to scan for...

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ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop
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ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop

ArXiv will ban researchers for one year if they upload papers containing obvious AI-generated content that hasn't been...

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The OpenAI trial wraps up, and the Musk founder machine keeps spinning
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The OpenAI trial wraps up, and the Musk founder machine keeps spinning

The Musk v. Altman trial concluded this week, with final arguments centering on whether the people leading AI...

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Google updates its spam rules to include attempts to ‘manipulate’ AI
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Google updates its spam rules to include attempts to ‘manipulate’ AI

Google updated its spam policy to classify attempts to manipulate its AI search results as spam, including tactics...

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Arxiv cracks down on unchecked AI-generated content in research papers
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Arxiv cracks down on unchecked AI-generated content in research papers

Arxiv, a major preprint server for research publications, is implementing stricter policies to regulate AI-generated...

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Anthropic frames AI competition with China as a now-or-never moment for Washington
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Anthropic frames AI competition with China as a now-or-never moment for Washington

Anthropic released a policy paper presenting two scenarios for 2028: either the US maintains its compute advantage over...

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The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial
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The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial

A federal jury is deciding on Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, with the trial revealing unfavorable...

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