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AI hiring bias demands human oversight
The Victorian government's recent announcement about regulating AI in hiring is not about technology. It is about the quiet, invisible moment when a machine decides you are not worth a human's time. That moment happens...
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AI chatbots reveal hidden political bias in mirror of data
A new study published in Science tested three major AI chatbots on politically charged topics like gun control and the death penalty. 1] The result: Gemini presented both sides of an issue 93% of the time. Claude...
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AI quietly redefines journalism's core human tasks
The most dangerous form of obsolescence is the one you never notice because it feels like help. When a reporter in Philadelphia uses an AI tool to monitor public meetings across dozens of municipalities, the promise is...
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US AI safety agency faces leadership crisis after director resigns
The resignation of Chris Fall as director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation after just 90 days is not a story about a single person leaving a job. It is a story about how the U.S. government builds the...
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Sony Lawsuit Exposes AI Threat to Music Licensing Market
The music industry’s battle with AI has reached a critical juncture, and it’s not about creativity or technology. Sony’s decision to file a second lawsuit against Udio, now covering over 30,000 recordings, reveals a...
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Chinese open-source models fill expert tool gaps
A cybersecurity analyst at a mid sized European bank opens his terminal on a Tuesday morning. An alert flashes: a sophisticated intrusion attempt, targeting a legacy system the bank had forgotten existed. The analyst's...
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Open source AI enables weaponized drone guidance
In 2022, a team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley published a study that seemed to confirm everything the open source movement had always believed: software with publicly visible code had fewer...
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China AI models thrive on good enough standard
The most uncomfortable question about Chinese AI models is not whether they can match American ones. It is whether they need to. A study from Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, cited by...
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MCP protocol goes stateless for AI scalability
In the early 2000s, web developers faced a quiet crisis. Websites were growing beyond what a single server could handle, but the standard way of keeping track of users storing their session data on one machine meant...
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Document graph format makes AI cite its sources
For decades, the core problem of business documents has remained stubbornly unchanged. A lease agreement, a loan contract, or a regulatory filing contains facts rental rates, interest terms, compliance dates but those...
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Anthropic pays $1.5 billion to settle AI copyright lawsuit
Anthropic has just paid $1.5 billion to settle a copyright lawsuit, the largest such payout in U.S. history. The money will flow to authors whose books were used to train the company's AI models. But here is the catch:...
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Study finds developer AI regulation safer than deployer rules
Everyone assumes that regulating the companies that use artificial intelligence is the safest path. If a chatbot gives bad medical advice or a hiring tool discriminates, the logic goes, hold the company that deployed it...
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