US judge approves Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit – South Carolina Lawyers Weekly
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OpenAI admits its agent went rogue and hacked AI startup Hugging Face– www.scientificamerican.com
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An OpenAI autonomous agent went rogue and hacked into another artificial intelligence (AI) startup’s infrastructure, the ChatGPT maker said in a blog post.
The agent, which was powered by some of OpenAI’s most advanced models, ran amok during a security test. It freed itself from confinement—a protocol AI labs use to insulate tests from the wider Internet—and get onto the internet. Once online, the agent tried to hack into Hugging Face, an AI startup that hosts open-source models and datasets.
“I think this is interesting as it shows the problem of mis-specified goals,” says Philip Torr, a professor of engineering science and AI safety expert at the University of Oxford. “The model wasn’t malicious it was just doing what it was optimized to do.”
AI shortens drug discovery to around 1 year in China, Insilico CEO says – Reuters
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US judge approves Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit – South Carolina Lawyers Weekly
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China’s New AI Breakthrough Shows Tim Cook’s Risky Final Bet Might Actually Be Genius – Yahoo Finance
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US and China to hold AI talks in September led by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent – Crypto Briefing
US and China to hold AI talks in September led by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent – Crypto Briefing
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Israel’s AI Advantage Is Talent Density – Israel Defense– news.google.com
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Israel’s AI Advantage Is Talent Density Israel Defense
Chinese AI agent outperforms Anthropic’s Claude Code in autonomous research – South China Morning Post
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The TikTok playbook is now China’s AI strategy – Washington Examiner
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China’s robot firms’ lament: if we only had a ‘brain’, and more data – South China Morning Post– news.google.com
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China’s robot firms’ lament: if we only had a ‘brain’, and more data South China Morning Post
Elon Musk Says AI and Robots Will Do ‘So Much Stuff’ We Run Out of Things for Humans to Do — But ‘We’ll B – Benzinga
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AI has already fallen into the wrong hands and they’re using it to make bombs– www.digitaltrends.com
AI has already fallen into the wrong hands and they’re using it to make bombs– www.digitaltrends.com
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Artificial intelligence has quickly become the go-to tool for everything from writing emails and summarizing meetings to helping students study or developers debug code. But the same technology that saves people time can also be misused, and a new report suggests that terrorist organizations are finding ways to do exactly that.
According to a research paper shared with The New York Times ahead of its publication, researchers found evidence that members of Boko Haram have been using popular AI chatbots to support both day-to-day activities and combat-related tasks. Interviews with 27 former members conducted in Nigeria over the past two years suggest that tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek were used to gather technical information, troubleshoot weapons, and even assist with planning attacks.
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Meta announced Monday that its Louisiana data center investment has grown from $10 billion to $50 billion and that it expects to generate substantial local tax revenues as it pursues artificial superintelligence.
The Richland Parish Data Center, nicknamed “Hyperion,” will be a nearly 10 million-square-foot, five-gigawatt facility, equivalent to a power plant capable of supplying enough electricity to power roughly 4 million average U.S. homes simultaneously. Altogether, that is about as much energy as New York City uses on a winter day.
“We’re delivering real economic impact alongside the AI infrastructure that will power the future,” Meta Vice President of Data Centers Rachel Peterson said in a statement.
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Writing in May for Above the Law, Ken Crutchfield observed that “over the past year, we’ve seen a steady stream of headlines about AI hallucinations where fake cases, fabricated quotes, and misstated facts made it through a review process and into court filings.” The predicament isn’t just that GenAI tools invent non-existent cases that some short-cut-taking attorneys cite without verifying; it’s that the tools also produce difficult-to-discover false claims and quotations that masquerade as truth in pleadings and motions. Indeed, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit explained in February that the “problem now often manifests as false quotes or statements of law attributed to real cases, rather than the more easily recognizable fake cases.”
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WASHINGTON, July 13 (Reuters)—The White House plans to bring together utility companies and data center developers to make a voluntary pledge designed to ensure that rapid growth in electricity demand from artificial intelligence does not drive-up power bills for households and businesses, according to three people familiar with the plans.
An event to announce the initiative is expected in the coming weeks, with several companies taking part and vowing to protect current ratepayers from shouldering all the costs of AI expansion. The guest list is still being finalized, the sources said.
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The last few weeks should end any illusion that the United States can improvise its way through frontier AI policy. What we have witnessed was not serious governance. It was vibe policymaking: ad hoc, deal-by-deal reactions with no clear standard, public explanation, or predictable process. The result was not just confusion. It exposed a deeper weakness: the United States has no reliable way to measure frontier AI risk, no agreed process for acting on it, and no institution built to do either.
In early June, Anthropic released Mythos 5 and its restricted consumer version, Fable 5, models that write complex code and find software vulnerabilities with minimal prompting. Days later, the Administration ordered Anthropic to cut off access to all foreign nationals, effective immediately. Unable to verify nationality in real time, Anthropic pulled the models entirely. OpenAI, meanwhile, held back its own GPT-5.6 series at the government’s request.
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With the exploding popularity of generative artificial intelligence, many open-source models are now available online for anyone to adapt for their task, such as generating product renderings in a certain artistic style.
But these models also find their way into the hands of nefarious actors who may optimize them to produce illegal content, like hate speech or child sexual abuse material (CSAM). This is a growing problem — the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received more than 1.5 million reports of AI-generated CSAM in 2025, an increase from 67,000 in 2024.
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AI is turning scientists into publishing machines—and quietly funneling them into the same crowded corners of research.
That’s the conclusion of an analysis of more than 40 million academic papers, which found that scientists who use AI tools in their research publish more papers, accumulate more citations, and reach leadership roles sooner than peers who don’t.
But there’s a catch. As individual scholars soar through the academic ranks, science as a whole shrinks its curiosity. AI-heavy research covers less topical ground, clusters around the same data-rich problems, and sparks less follow-on engagement between studies.
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The researchers behind the breakthrough say these humanoid robots could offer several advantages over the complex surgical systems currently in use.
Humanoid-style robot performs surgery for the first time, marking a potential turning point in the relationship between robotics and healthcare. Working alongside surgeons from the University of California San Diego, a robot named Surgie successfully removed a gallbladder. In another operation, “Surgie” was joined by another robot also dubbed “Surgie” to work alongside one another to perform a laparoscopic gallbladder removal. Both procedures were performed on non-primate mammals, The Independent reports.
“This study shows that humanoid robots have a viable future in the field of surgery,” said Michael Yip, a faculty member in the UC San Diego Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.,” said to The Independent. “Remotely operated and autonomous humanoid robots have real potential for amplifying access to critical surgeries to which patients would otherwise not have access. This can help address the healthcare crisis not only in the United States, but also worldwide.”
President Trump has lifted his export ban on Anthropic’s AI product. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced “… The controls … are withdrawn. A license is no longer required for the export, reexport, or in-country transfer, including deemed export or deemed reexport, of the Mythos or Fable models.”