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Ars Technica AIValleyMeta drops the word "train" from its commercial TOS after AI backlash Hoping to quell criticism, Meta has dropped the word “train” from its “streamlined” commercial terms of service that kick in on October 30.
Ars Technica AIValleyGemini's Personal Intelligence is coming to cars Google kicked off 2026 with the addition of Personal Intelligence to Gemini, allowing its AI to pull in more of your data to formulate answers.
Ars Technica AIValleyMeta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs In copyright lawsuits over AI training, Meta has spent weeks blaming staff for downloading torrents. The company has now been ordered to name executives who authorized decisions to pirate books from…
Ars Technica AIValleyAccused OpenAI spy had folder called “Saudi Gov Docs,” FBI says On Monday, a court granted the US government's request to deny release of a former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging a top-secret conference room to steal the frontier lab’s secrets.
Ars Technica AIValleyAI game clones are making indie developers afraid to show their work Since its earliest days, the video game industry has been built on developers creating clones of competing games , with varying levels of originality and varying levels of enforcement from game…
Ars Technica AIValleyDisney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuits This week, Character.AI declared bankruptcy. While some saw the fall of a chatbot platform as a harbinger for the industry , court filings indicate that the decision was actually a key part of a deal…
Ars Technica AIValleyAnthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access Anthropic has granted external evaluators “employee-like access” to assess the risks of its models, following through on a commitment to increase safeguards over concerns the technology could run…
Ars Technica AIValleyOpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites OpenAI said internal models hacked two more websites, bypassed company-imposed browsing restrictions, and used exposed credentials to draw cryptocurrency from a wallet it couldn’t otherwise access…
Ars Technica AIValley“thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops New Jersey’s deputy attorney general, Brian Richard Fitzgerald, was arrested on “felony charges related to AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM),” Bucks County Detectives said in a press…
Ars Technica AIValleyMeta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees Legal experts are sounding alarms that Meta will soon update its commercial terms to require business accounts to allow Meta to train AI on their linked website content, not just their social media…
Ars Technica AIValleySuper Scam Me documentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer If you got a DM from an unverified Jon Bon Jovi account after commenting on one of his official Instagram posts, what would it take to make you believe it was really the rock star hoping to connect?
Ars Technica AIValleyReport: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax” Following a string of incidents where AI models hacked websites and breached government systems during testing phases, the Federal Trade Commission is officially probing Anthropic and OpenAI over…
Ars Technica AIValleySinger or clanker? YouTube Music will tell you with new gen AI labeling. Genuine human creativity takes time, but you know what doesn't? AI slop. There are countless AI models out there that can make something that passes for music, and you might come across those tracks…
Ars Technica AIValleyEpic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam Nearly eight years after Epic took on Steam with its own Game Store and launcher, the Fortnite maker is deploying a new tool to give it an edge over Valve: vibe coding.
Ars Technica AIValleyResearchers use AI to design proteins that cut up other proteins A protein is a chain of amino acids held together by what are called peptide bonds. On their own, those bonds are extremely stable; they're estimated to have a half-life of several hundred years.
Ars Technica AIValleyRecording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room It took OpenAI two days to notice that a recording device was hidden in a restricted executive conference room where leadership met to discuss highly confidential information, including technical…
Ars Technica AIValleyAnthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices AI company Anthropic is warning that advances in small AI models could soon usher in a new era of self-replicating malware that’s capable of infecting smart fridges, vacuum cleaners, and a wide range…
Ars Technica AIValleyOpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say Safety researchers continue to warn that a large volume of AI-generated explicit content is spreading unchecked, while regulators do little to meaningfully stop it.
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