natlawreview.com
What starts as a branding opportunity can evolve from a marketing strategy into an employment law issue when employers encourage, direct, compensate, promote, or monetize employee-created content. Employee-creator programs can give rise to a range of legal issues, including wage-and-hour, labor relations, privacy, intellectual property, and equal opportunity.
schneier.com
Consider the relatively recent societal normalization of same-sex relationships and the recreational use of marijuana. Over the decades, those ideas slowly progressed from being both immoral and illegal, to moral but still illegal, and finally to both moral and legal. But in order for any of that to happen, there had to be a counterculture that was able to experiment and eventually demonstrate to the world that morality could change over time. To the extent that AI surveillance chills this sort of experimentation in public or in private, social progress becomes impossible.
originhq.com
A trusted inference provider doesn't save you: the provider is faithfully, dutifully running a model that is itself disloyal. Local deployment doesn't save you either, same reason. So here's the sad truth: an agent built on weights you didn't train and can't read is a person you hired, handed your data and your tools, and have no way to background-check. It's the insider-threat problem, except this insider runs at clock speed and never goes home.
thenewatlantis.com
Burnout, depression, anxiety: these are the maladies of our time. No one denies their spread, but their wider significance is a matter of debate. For Han, they are not signs that the new order is breaking down. They are signs of its success. We are free — and the result is not liberation but exhaustion.
reuters.com
According to the complaint, Meta used a number of internal AI-assisted systems to score and rank employees on a termination list. Those included “Metamate,” a large language model assistant; an employee-trained “second brain” that tracked workers’ communications and documents; and a productivity score drawn from scanning keystrokes, screen content, emails and browser history, according to the lawsuit.
thinkingmachines.ai
Inkling is not the strongest overall model available today, open or closed. Instead, a combination of qualities makes it a good open-weights base for customization: multimodal capabilities, efficient thinking, and availability on Tinker for fine-tuning.
nature.com
However, no pixel exists that both senses and generates optical wavefronts with full control over amplitude, phase and polarization, limiting bidirectional control and feedback of sophisticated light fields. Here we present a route to such pixels by demonstrating a versatile platform of miniaturized diffractive elements based on Fourier optics. We use plasmonic surface waves, which propagate coherently and efficiently across metallic surfaces.
chinatalk.media
Made-in-America AI girlfriends and made-in-China AI boyfriends are strikingly different, and so are the social contexts and regulatory environments in which they exist. Yet one thing both markets share is the tension with real-life relationships. Whether healthy or not, frustrations with human interaction and broadly polarized gender dynamics are leading many men and women, regardless of nationality, to turn to AI.
queue.acm.org
Right now, there is a LOT of shrill propaganda from the tech bros, who call themselves "privacy advocates," about how mandatory age checking is the gateway drug to comprehensive identity checks on the entire Internet, and ridiculing the valid civic concerns governments are trying to address as merely "think of the children" strawman arguments.
In comparison, tech sisters advocating for an absolute right to privacy seem to be a very rare, and maybe mythical, species.
ollama.com
Computing has been here before: the personal computer took the machine out of the mainframe room and put it on your desk — yours to own, customize, and build with. Open models are now enabling that moment for AI.
en.andros.dev
The IndieWeb's conclusion is not "don't use social networks". It is more subtle: use whatever you want, but make sure the canonical copy of your content lives on a domain you control.
keenancrane.github.io
An interactive browser for all 345 SIGGRAPH 2026 technical papers (July 20–23). Enable filters to search by string, keyword, or room number; save either individual talks or the selected schedule to your calendar.
hidden-phenomena.com
These articles describe various interesting Diophantine equations. If you're not sure where to start, we recommend Why study Diophantine equations? to see why this is our goal, or to read What is √−1 modulo 5? to see a particularly striking example.
11971.com
They call it Flock because you are the sheep
beautifulpublicdata.com
The pace of change is so rapid in fact, that the New York City Office of Technology and Innovation publishes weekly updates to one of its most fascinating datasets – the footprints of every building in New York City.
openai.com
The models identified and chained vulnerabilities across OpenAI's research environment and Hugging Face's production infrastructure to obtain test solutions directly from Hugging Face's production database. All evidence suggests that the models were hyperfocused on finding a solution for ExploitGym, going to extreme lengths to achieve a rather narrow testing goal.
apnews.com
About 91% of the more than 482,000 books covered by the ruling have been claimed by authors or publishers who are now due payment.
eur-lex.europa.eu
the provider of a VPN or similar services that are used in order to circumvent an ineffective geo-blocking measure and are lawful technical tools which users may legitimately use cannot be regarded as also having communicated the work to the public
blaizzy.github.io
Nativ puts frontier intelligence on your desk. Download and run open models on Apple Silicon — no accounts, no subscriptions, no cloud.
nytimes.com
Now Mr. Dolan has quietly won another protracted war, this one against the New York State Liquor Authority. Three years ago, Mr. Dolan courted public condemnation by deploying facial recognition to bar scores of people he deemed enemies from Madison Square Garden. At that time, the liquor authority also took exception, saying that the Garden's exclusionary biometric surveillance violated state beverage laws that require establishments to admit the general public.
theartnewspaper.com
The court has decided that in order to benefit from pastiche, the user must be engaged in an 'artistic or creative dialogue' with the appropriated work.
storage.courtlistener.com
According to Midjourney's most recent filing, submitted on 29 June, if the studios “are themselves training generative-AI models on third-party copyrighted works, scraping the internet and investing in tools that do the same”, this would serve as “powerful evidence that the relevant industry considers such conduct to be fair use”. The studios, Midjourney argues, are “engaging in the very conduct they complained about”.
link.springer.com
Over this period, average bicarbonate levels in this population show an increasing trend which parallels rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Both Ca and P have decreased steadily over the same period. If these trends continue, blood bicarbonate values could be at the limit of the accepted healthy range in half a century, and Ca and P will be at the limit of their healthy ranges by the end of this century.
nealstephenson.substack.com
When you write things down by hand you're recruiting more of your brain, which is a good thing.
gema.de
PLAI by GEMA ist das erste Angebot dieser Art in Europa, das Soundfiles, umfassende Metadaten sowie Urheber- und Masterrechte skalierbar aus einer Hand bündelt. Das Produkt richtet sich an Anbieter von KI-Musiktools, die Musikschaffende im Produktionsprozess unterstützen und deren Ergebnisse nicht mit den verwendeten Trainingswerken konkurrieren.
github.com
This application/plugin is based on the PaulStretch algorithm. (Paul's Extreme Time Stretch, originally developed by Nasca Octavian Paul), and specifically the PaulXStretch version from Xenakios. It can turn any short audio into an hours long ambient soundscape without batting an eye!
vectoral.com
A relay — or 'transfer station' — is essentially a service that proxies traffic to U.S. models, often at a deep discount. The ecosystem runs four layers deep, from the merchants sourcing raw accounts down to the developers buying cheap tokens. As Anthropic and others roll out KYC controls and identity verification, the abuse won't disappear, it will just move somewhere else.
huggingface.co
K3 is the next generation of open frontier models from Moonshot AI. It is the world's first open 3T-class model, designed for frontier intelligence across long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and reasoning.
sebastianraschka.com
Yes, it looks relatively complicated, but it's essentially a scaled-up production version of their Kimi Linear model they released last year (scaled up from 48B -> 2.8T; K3 is by far the biggest open-weight model right now) … Kimi K3's overall trend (similar to Nemotron 3, DeepSeek V4, and others) is also towards better inference efficiency. That is, there are many components that replace existing components with efficiency-tweaked versions.
huggingface.co
Over roughly two and a half days inside our infrastructure, an autonomous AI agent driven by a combination of OpenAI models ran an end-to-end intrusion against our platform. … The agent chained vulnerabilities across several trust boundaries, escaped its evaluation environment, reached the public internet, and sustained a coherent campaign.
pacingthefrontier.com
Today, the world lacks the technical and governance tools to deliberately pace frontier-wide progress. … We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.