A study of UK university policies found many were difficult to locate and argued that rules presented as educational often centred on monitoring and discipline. The findings reflect the researcher’s
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California has signed Adam's Law, adding crisis protocols, parental controls, independent audits and annual risk assessments for companion chatbots used by children.
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Low numbers of AI agents adapted to humans, but at high proportions humans shifted towards agent-led language in
People preferred the most structured AI explanation, but it produced more false alarms and much poorer error localisation
Claude, Gemini, GPT and Grok rated faces more generously than 2,513 human participants while broadly tracking the same
Workplace details made simulated AI phishing emails more convincing. Across 1,436 evaluations, each extra personalisation level also raised
A live challenge made current real-time deepfake systems easier to expose. Asking a suspicious caller to perform an unexpected action may add a useful verification step.
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In a 2,610-person experiment, warnings reduced trust in a flattering chatbot without reliably changing users’ conviction about being
An analysis of ten datasets found better decisions when humans and AI answered independently, with another person resolving
The Lumière declaration backs human creation and intellectual property while supporting AI innovation. Its principles leave implementation to
A joint NSA, CISA and FBI advisory accuses six Chinese AI companies of extracting US model capabilities. The
Research involving 31 million Ctrip users found higher AI-assistant adoption among older travellers. The findings show why the shopping context matters.
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A browser study found three chatbot services transmitting readable conversation text to Microsoft Clarity. The finding concerns specific
Uber faces a Dutch collective claim for about 241,000 drivers alleging its automated pay system cut earnings. Uber
A study of 182,812 AI negotiations found warm agents struck more deals, but claimed less value once an
A one-week experiment found that AI users often remembered ideas while misremembering whether the human or chatbot created
California lawmakers unanimously passed a bill requiring court disclosure of AI use and personal citation checks. It still awaits the governor.
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Teachers rated the same unfairly low mark as 22 per cent fairer when it was attributed to an
Amazon repricing bots initially cut prices, but a resetting strategy later pushed market prices 11.4 per cent higher
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra with stronger agentic and cyber capabilities while admitting its reasoning is becoming harder to
An AI label did not reduce a chatbot's influence in a 1,500-person UK experiment. Persuasion fell by roughly
AI assistance helped people perform better while it was available, but it also made their later unaided ability look stronger than it really was. In
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Belief in an AI forecast made participants reject guaranteed cash even when the system gave no recommendation. Four
A peer-reviewed meta-analysis finds that generative AI can improve individual work while making different users' outputs more alike.
Sony and Warner allege that Anthropic used tens of thousands of copyrighted songs to develop Claude without permission.
OpenAI plans to remove its models from Cursor following SpaceX's takeover, with a proposed cut-off on 12 November
In a 70,000-applicant experiment, AI interviews were faster and led to 12% more job offers. Human recruiters still made every hiring decision.
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A 1,258-person experiment found that AI personality pairings changed advert quality, with neurotic humans and neurotic AI achieving
OpenAI's new Dots are always-on ChatGPT agents with their own cloud computers. They can keep working, use connected
Andrew Bailey told the G20 that frontier AI could make cyber threats faster, broader and capable of undermining
A meta-analysis of 106 experiments found that human-AI teams outperformed people alone but often failed to beat whichever
Two preregistered experiments found that seven-minute AI conversations increased real petition signing, revealing that changes in political action do not necessarily follow changes in opinion.
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A PNAS study found all 45 main-study participants improved after learning six whole-face qualities, with mean AI-face detection
A preregistered study found AI ethical advice won 53.7 per cent of choices when its source was hidden,
In a controlled study, positively reframed AI summaries lifted stated manufacturer choice from 52.3 to 83.7 per cent
Experienced open-source developers expected AI to speed them up. A randomised METR trial found their tasks took 19
Anthropic has opened a research preview of a standard that lets AI agents coordinate microscopes, liquid handlers, robotic arms and other programmable equipment.
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A federal judge found the government's Anthropic blacklist retaliatory, denied due process and violated administrative law, while rejecting
A Nature study found that indirect AI delegation made people more willing to pursue dishonest outcomes. The effect
AI helped archaeologists confirm 303 previously unknown figurative geoglyphs in Peru's Nazca desert. The model narrowed the search,
OpenAI says its first custom inference chip delivers faster responses and more work per watt. The benchmark results
Alabama has subpoenaed OpenAI following an autonomous AI intrusion into Hugging Face. Investigators are examining whether the company’s safeguards breached consumer protection law.
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AI analysis of Raphael’s Madonna della Rosa suggests Joseph’s face may have been painted by another artist. The
Researchers trained AI on recordings from 74 dogs and found it could identify different barking situations. The real
Researchers used AI to identify laptop keystrokes from smartphone and Zoom recordings. Here is what the findings mean
A new study used non-invasive brain recordings and AI to identify speech heard by volunteers, raising fresh questions
Wild African elephants use individual name-like calls to address one another. Machine learning and playback experiments revealed a hidden layer of social communication.
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A study of 1,085,795 people found AI could identify political orientation from facial photographs more accurately than human
Britain’s cybersecurity agency says autonomous AI agents need real emergency shutdowns, restricted access and human oversight because written
Researchers compared 80 AI-written novels with 270 human books. Individual machine-written passages could look persuasive, but whole collections
Frontier AI agents rewrote training algorithms in 290 clean tests. More than two in five produced worse results
