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'I find it sycophantic, but it gives me dopamine hits’ — the thing I dislike most about AI is exactly what some users love

I quizzed people who turn to AI for reassurance and wasn't expecting their answers.

Meta Employees Absolutely Hate Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon

“I’m not sure that this company supports a hackathon culture anymore,” one employee posted in a forum open to the entire staff.

NanoClaw now armed with JFrog for safer packages

AI agents can't be trusted, so don't give them dangerous powers

AI summary NanoClaw, an open-source variant of OpenClaw, has partnered with software supply chain management company JFrog to launch a security integration designed to protect NanoClaw autonomous agents from malicious code injection. The collaboration aims to address risks associated with AI agents performing uncontrolled actions.

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Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it

A new report suggests the unit, which employs 6,500 people, is on the verge of revolt.

Kimi K2.7-Code cuts thinking tokens 30% — but practitioners say the benchmarks don't check out

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code this week, an open-source update to its K2 coding model family, claiming leaner reasoning and double-digit performance gains. K2.7-Code is built on the same trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts architecture as its p redecessor K2.6 , and drops in via an OpenAI-compatible API — which matters for teams already running K2.6 in production gateways. When K2.6…

‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess

Executives and employees alike are struggling with Meta’s chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.

Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google

The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million text messages over a span of two weeks.

MX Linux 25.2 provides possible refuge from AI as well as systemd

Plus, Raspberry Pi edition finally catches up

A major KPMG report on AI was found to be chock-full of...AI hallucinations

GPTZero has been prompted to issue its second report revealing how a major report is full of fake, AI-generated citations.

Coinbase Says Let the AI Agents Trade Fartcoin

Why lose money trading Fartcoin when an AI agent could lose it for you?

AI summary Coinbase launched a tool called Coinbase for Agents that allows AI agents to execute trades on its platform, including trading the cryptocurrency Fartcoin.

$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year

Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a "taste of political power."

AI Facial Recognition Software Leads to False Arrests, Ruined Lives in Florida

An AI-powered dystopian future seems increasingly inevitable to many these days, but for some, it’s already here.

Claude Fable 5 secretly throttled AI researchers, and the internet went wild

Claude Fable 5 gave users access to Mythos-class power, but its hidden safeguards turned a safety feature into a trust problem for Anthropic.

When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket

Even moderately sized data centers can have an outsized local impact.

Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams

The fraudsters allegedly targeted hundreds of thousands of people with Gemini-coded scams sites.

40% of enterprises will scrap AI agents - 3 ways to ensure yours don't fail

How do you create real ROI from autonomous AI? Three digital leaders share lessons they've learned in the field.

OpenAI's latest acquisition could see big changes on the way for its Codex coding assistant

OpenAI to snap up Ona, subject to approval, giving Codex access to the right environment for long-running agentic tasks.

AI summary OpenAI announced its acquisition of Ona, a cloud development environment provider formerly known as Gitpod, subject to regulatory approval. The move aims to integrate Ona's secure cloud execution infrastructure into the Codex coding assistant, enabling long-running agentic tasks. Additionally, OpenAI has updated Codex's quota rules, allowing users to defer quota resets for more flexible use, a change seen in the context of competition with Anthropic.

Q&A: Can we trust AI models? Researchers explore the roots of chatbot errors

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has inserted a new character into people's lives: the chatbot.

PixelRAG beats text parsers on accuracy and cuts AI agent token costs 10x

Most enterprise RAG pipelines start the same way: a text parser converts web pages and documents into plain text so they can be chunked and indexed for retrieval. That conversion step destroys retrieval signals — and according to new research, it's responsible for the majority of wrong answers. A research team from UC Berkeley, Princeton University, EPFL and Databricks published a paper this week…

KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations

GPTZero claims only 5 of the report's 45 citations matched their sources, raising questions about how the Big Four's AI study was assembled