Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tag

Stanford Scientists Create 16 Functional AI-Designed Viruses in Lab

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 08, 2026 10 Comments

Whether this breakthrough becomes a foundation for next-generation phage therapies or a cautionary tale will depend less on who uses this knowledge and how....

Thousands of Admissions in Doubt at University in Mexico After AI is Used to Prevent Cheating

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 03, 2026 2 Comments

"UNAM annulled thousands of tests after results showed an unusually high number of perfect scores"...

Musk’s X.AI Sues to Stop Minnesota’s AI ‘Nudification’ Ban

Posted by Jane Coleman on July 30, 2026 26 Comments

X.AI says the Minnesota law is overly broad, exacting steep fines for deep fakes that need not be sexual or even suggestive....

College Professor’s Clever AI Trap Uncovers Rampant Cheating

Posted by Elizabeth Stauffer on July 24, 2026 53 Comments

"The average grade was 96, with 40 students obtaining a perfect score. That compared to a midterm average ranging between 65 and 80 in previous years."...

Advanced OpenAI Model Goes Rogue and Hacks into Rival Firm’s AI System

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 22, 2026 28 Comments

As the race to deploy more powerful models accelerates, so do the risks regulators and developers may not fully control....

NY Gov. Hochul’s Data Center Moratorium Hands China an AI Advantage

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 15, 2026 27 Comments

Upon reading the news, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman texts, "China Wins."...

Brown University Prof Alleges Widespread Cheating With Help From AI in His Class

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 03, 2026 6 Comments

“I think the incident itself is terrible, but I think in some sense I’m more disappointed by the reaction of the university”...

Anti-Israel Student Activists Use Bogus AI-Generated Cases in Lawsuit Against Columbia, Barnard

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 29, 2026 8 Comments

“There was no intent to mislead the Court, and undersigned counsel accepts responsibility for the miscitations.”...

U.S. Orders Anthropic to Disable Claude Fable 5, Mythos 5 Over Security Concerns

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 19, 2026 12 Comments

"Our understanding is that the government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or 'jailbreaking' Fable 5" to identify minor software vulnerabilities in the model."...

Lawmakers Warn China May Be Fueling US Data Center Backlash as Local Bans Spread

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 06, 2026 36 Comments

Voters in a California city ban AI data center construction, plans for Utah data center shrinking over backlash, Seattle issues one-year prohibition on center construction....

Where AI is the Tool, Humans are the Variable

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 01, 2026 7 Comments

The week at AI: a $500 Million mistake, use in American war games, and the focus of Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence”. ...

Free Speech Group Warns UC-Berkeley After Student Activists Shout Down Google AI Chief

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 24, 2026 3 Comments

"This sends the message that one can easily thwart campus discourse they dislike simply by disrupting it."...

Instructure Confirms Major Hack Affecting Canvas Users Across Thousands of Schools

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 09, 2026 14 Comments

Perhaps it is time to return to the Blue Book....

Stanford Study Finds AI Grading Systems Give More Praise to Black, Female Students

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 06, 2026 5 Comments

"Feedback given to white students, on the other hand, was more content-related."...

UC-Berkeley Activists Shut Down Speech by Google AI Chief, Claiming Tech Aids Palestinian ‘Genocide’

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 03, 2026 5 Comments

"a group of about 20 activists taking part in the campus May Day demonstration decided to also crash the talk nearly 40 minutes after it had started"...