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Meta will scan height and bone structure to flag under-13 users on Facebook and Instagram
The visual analysis arrives weeks after a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million for misleading users about platform safety.
Google, Microsoft and xAI hand US government pre-release access to frontier models
The Commerce Department's CAISI will run security evaluations on new models from three more labs, expanding a program that began with OpenAI and Anthropic in 2024.
Medical student spends six months reverse-engineering Cortex, the AI tool screening 30% of US residency applications
Chad Markey applied to 82 residency programs and got rejections. Then he learned 1,500 hospitals were using an OpenAI-powered screener called Cortex.
Notepad++ creator disavows AI-coded Mac port using his trademark
Don Ho says Andrey Letov's 'Notepad++ for Mac' — built largely with Claude CLI — used the name and logo without permission.
Alberta election officials use canary traps to catch voter-list leak
Elections Alberta seeded its voter database with bogus entries, then watched them surface in a separatist group's online tool.
Musk texted Brockman 'most hated men in America' before OpenAI trial, filing claims
OpenAI's Sunday filing tried to enter the settlement exchange into evidence; the judge ruled it inadmissible.
Musk's lone AI expert at OpenAI trial warns of AGI arms race
Berkeley's Stuart Russell told jurors AGI development creates winner-take-all dynamics that pull labs away from safety work.
Musk's 'World War III' Twitter threat resurfaces at OpenAI trial
OpenAI wants the judge to admit a pre-trial message from Musk to Greg Brockman warning he and Sam Altman would be 'the most hated men in America.'
Musk sought settlement with OpenAI before Oakland trial, filing shows
A new court filing reveals Elon Musk attempted to resolve his OpenAI lawsuit before jury selection in Oakland.
'This is fine' creator KC Green says AI startup Artisan stole his comic for a subway ad
Cartoonist KC Green says Artisan put his 2013 burning-dog meme on an ad for 'Ava the AI BDR' without permission and is hunting for a lawyer.
Academy bars AI-generated actors and scripts from Oscar eligibility
New rules require human performers credited in legal billing and human-authored screenplays, with the Academy reserving the right to audit AI usage.
Anthropic Opens Claude Security Beta With CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, Big Four On Board
The code-scanning tool launches as Anthropic leans on cybersecurity, the one federal lane still open to it after Pentagon setbacks.
US officials weigh shorter deadlines to patch software flaws as AI-powered hacking accelerates
Reuters reports federal agencies may be ordered to fix known vulnerabilities faster as AI tools shrink the window between disclosure and exploitation.
Super PAC tied to OpenAI and Palantir execs pays influencers to frame China AI as a threat
Build American AI is offering creators $5,000 per TikTok to amplify anti-China messaging, funded by a $100M dark-money operation.
US officials weigh shorter patch deadlines as AI-powered hacking accelerates
Federal cyber officials are debating tighter timelines to fix software flaws, worried that AI tools are closing the window between disclosure and exploitation.
Minnesota becomes first state to ban AI nudify apps, with $500K fines per image
The Senate passed the bill 65–0 after a Minnesota man was found to have nudified more than 80 women he knew personally.
GC Cybersecurity's Tarique Mustafa: rebuild security with AI at the core, not bolted on
At MIT Technology Review's EmTech AI, the GC Cybersecurity cofounder argues legacy defenses can't keep up with AI-expanded attack surfaces.
GC Cybersecurity's Tarique Mustafa: AI security can't be bolted on
At MIT Technology Review's EmTech AI, the GC Cybersecurity cofounder argues legacy defenses are buckling as AI expands the attack surface.
Radiant Mobile launches a Christian US phone network that blocks porn and LGBT content
The T-Mobile-backed MVNO charges $30 a month and uses network-level blocking that adult account owners cannot disable.
Meta cuts Sama contract affecting 1,108 workers after Ray-Ban Meta footage complaints
Kenyan annotators said they reviewed private footage from Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses; Meta says Sama failed to meet its standards.
OpenAI launches Advanced Account Security for ChatGPT, partners with Yubico on co-branded keys
The opt-in program targets dissidents, journalists, and enterprise users; two new YubiKeys plug straight into ChatGPT logins.
OpenAI gates GPT-5.5 Cyber after mocking Anthropic for doing the same with Mythos
Sam Altman called Anthropic's Mythos rollout 'fear-based marketing.' Now OpenAI is shipping its own cyber tool only to vetted defenders.
Musk testifies xAI used OpenAI models to train Grok
Under cross-examination, Musk said distillation is standard practice across AI labs and admitted xAI did it 'partly' to OpenAI.
Arizona women sue AI ModelForge operators over deepfake porn coaching scheme
A January lawsuit alleges three Phoenix men sold a $24.95-a-month course teaching subscribers how to turn real women's photos into AI porn influencers.
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