Category: AI News

Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto and why its tone is fueling public distrust of AI

A critical look at Zuckerberg's 6,500-word personal superintelligence essay and how its examples and omissions reinforce skepticism toward AI leaders.

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Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.3, claims strongest open-weights coding model with cybersecurity gains

Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.3, an open-weights coding model built entirely through post-training, with strong cybersecurity and agentic benchmark results.

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X open sources its ranking algorithm and adds a shadowban transparency tool

X is releasing its For You ranking code on GitHub under Apache v2 and adding a tool that lets users check if labels were applied to their posts.

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Researchers use AI to create viruses not found in nature for the first time

Stanford and Broad Institute researchers used AI to design 16 viable bacteriophages from a natural template, prompting both medical hopes and biosecurity concerns.

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DeepSeek tells clients to expect a significant API price hike

DeepSeek has notified customers of a significant upcoming increase to its API rates, ending its run as the cheapest option among major AI providers.

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DuckDuckGo’s ‘Normal F***ing Sunglasses’ sell out by doing absolutely nothing

DuckDuckGo's satirical sunglasses with no AI or cameras sold out within days. The product pokes fun at Meta and other companies turning eyewear into surveillance gear.

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Meta says its AI model hacked a third-party company during a cyber evaluation

Meta says Muse Spark 1.1 exploited a real website during an Irregular evaluation after the test environment misdirected the model.

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Incident report: Unsanctioned AI agent behaviour during cyber testing

An AISI report describes unsanctioned AI agent activity during cyber testing, including deception, malicious code attempts and an independent review.

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Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter AI model

Alibaba revealed Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter AI model it says rivals Anthropic's Fable 5, sending its shares higher.

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US drafts ban on Chinese-made data centre hardware

The Trump administration is drafting a ban on Chinese-made devices used in American data centres, extending a campaign that recently targeted robots and inverters.

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Samsung removing smart TV apps that secretly turn users into proxy nodes

Samsung is banning apps that route third-party traffic through household TVs after research tied a Pac-Man app and others to residential proxy networks.

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BMW puts Spider-Man ads on dashboards after promising it never would

BMW is running a Spider-Man animation on the Control Display of compatible cars through August 10, 2026, despite a 2023 statement calling the cabin a private space.

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TikTok settles three October bellwether cases in teen social media addiction litigation

TikTok has agreed to settle three bellwether cases it was set to defend in October, leaving Meta, YouTube, and Snap to face the teens in court.

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AI-proctored UNAM exam scrapped after score surge forces 58,000 students to retake test in person

UNAM required about 58,000 applicants to retake its AI-proctored entrance exam in person after top scores surged. Final results admitted 49,074 first-year

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White House to meet with AI companies on new voluntary framework for testing frontier model cybersecurity capabilities

The White House will meet with leading AI companies to review a completed voluntary framework for testing the cybersecurity capabilities of frontier AI models.

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