Brands Are Secretly Manipulating Reddit So AI Search Engines Recommend Their Products
Reddit moderators say brands are planting promotional comments because AI search engines increasingly treat Reddit discussions as trusted recommendations.
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China’s GLM-5.2 Is Closing the AI Capability Gap—but Researchers Say Its Safety Gap Is Wide Open
Researchers say China’s open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier performance but refused none of the offensive cyber or biological tasks tested.
Anthropic Appoints a Global Affairs Chief as Its Dispute With Washington Deepens
Anthropic has appointed its first chief global affairs officer as the Claude developer faces growing political and national-security pressure.
Could the AI Industry Become “Too Big to Fail”? A US Federal Reserve Official Is Asking
A senior Federal Reserve official says the enormous financing behind AI infrastructure deserves scrutiny as the sector grows increasingly important to the economy.
India Summons Meta’s Global Team Over AI Content, Child Safety and Platform Accountability
India has summoned Meta’s global representatives for talks about AI-generated content, child safety and the treatment of prominent verified accounts.
Bending Spoons Buys Airtable for $1.285 Billion as the AI-Agent Race Accelerates
Bending Spoons has agreed to acquire Airtable for $1.285 billion as the business-software platform expands into teams of orchestrated AI agents.
AI Companies Bought, Scanned and Destroyed Millions of Physical Books
Court documents revealed that Anthropic’s Project Panama bought and destructively scanned huge numbers of physical books to train its AI systems.
OpenAI Says Its Models Now Reach More Than One Billion Users
OpenAI says its artificial-intelligence models now reach more than one billion active users and two million businesses worldwide.
Mario Lopez Deletes “Creepy” AI Video of His Niece After Viral Backlash
Mario Lopez deleted a bizarre AI-generated video involving his adult niece after social-media users called the clip disturbing and inappropriate.
Sam Altman Says AI Development May Need to Slow Down—and Nobody Wants to Brake First
Sam Altman says frontier AI may need to slow temporarily so society can build safeguards, but competitive pressure makes unilateral action unlikely.