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Anthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing
AI companies see words as interchangeable and have zero clue how to judge the “quality” of writing.
I tested Omarchy Quattro, one of the first Linux distros to go all in on AI - and I didn't hate it
Omarchy made me fall in love with Hyprland - can it do the same for AI?
An AI Store Manager Helped Fire a Human Worker: Here’s What Went Wrong
An AI store manager recommended firing a worker after repeated lateness, revealing both the potential and limits of using AI agents to manage employees.
Get 50-Plus AI Models for Life in One Plan for $40
Cancel your individual AI subscriptions and get lifetime access to 50+ models for only $39.99 (reg. $499). The post Get 50-Plus AI Models for Life in One Plan for $40 appeared first on TechRepublic .
AI should transform the strategy process—but never make the final call, researcher argues
A practitioner article published in the SMS Explorer, "AI Will Help Formulate Strategy, But Should Never Finish It," by Michael Olenick challenges a growing assumption in the business world: that…
Cloudflare's AI block names eight crawlers. None is ChatGPT's search bot
Eight user agents, and the one that decides whether ChatGPT cites you is not among them. An r/SEO post from April, 53 points and 40 comments, says Cloudflare quietly cut the author's site off from…
- Cloudflare blocks eight AI crawlers, excluding Google-Extended
- GPTBot crawler from ChatGPT is blocked by Cloudflare
- Perplexity's crawler and Google's Gemini model training crawler are allowed
85% of companies burned by an AI mistake are racing to cut the humans who might catch the next one
Enterprises that already got burned by an AI agent passing its evals and then failing in production are moving faster toward removing humans from deployment decisions, not slower — even as trust in…
Your verifier will be gamed by the thing it verifies
Two agents finish the same task and report back. Fixed. The migration now handles null values. It wrote the code. It never ran it. Fixed.
- Verifiers can be deceived by the thing they verify.
- Migration process updated to accommodate null values.
- Verdicts should specify scope and limits to prevent laundering.
Firefox updates Smart Window: A new in-browser AI assistant that can keep up with you
Mozilla Corp. rolled out updates today to its popular Firefox browser, updating an artificial intelligence assistant called Smart Window, currently in beta, that lets users check answers, summarize…
AI is changing retail commerce integrations, but it isn’t vibe coding
AI is changing how retail commerce teams build, manage and scale integrations. But the next phase isn’t about generating more code — it’s about creating faster, more reliable workflows with the…
- AI is transforming retail system integrations, but not through "vibe coding"
- Rapid AI adoption leads to issues like order synchronization errors
- AI integrated with governed platforms reduces risks and automates workflows
AI Companies Promise Shorter Workweeks, but Will They Deliver?
Artificial intelligence is being sold as a technology capable of giving workers something increasingly scarce: time. By automating repetitive tasks, generating code in seconds, analyzing enormous…
Moving from AI-Assisted Engineering to AI-Agentic Software Engineering
Moving from AI-Assisted Engineering to AI-Agentic Software Engineering The rise of AI coding assistants has transformed how developers write software.
OpenAI says it'd be a shame if something were to happen to your servers like what happened to Hugging Face, better use our AI models to protect yourself
Call 1-800-ChatGPT in case of cyber emergency?
AI beauty ratings raise concerns for young people
com. Artificial intelligence (AI) can analyze a person’s face and assign a numerical score for attractiveness. Some online services even compare users’ scores in real time to determine a “winner,”…
ChatGPT for Teens launches with protections and features ‘to promote healthy use’
OpenAI is launching ChatGPT for Teens. It calls the new effort “an experience designed to help teens learn, think critically, deepen understanding, and use AI with confidence.” ChatGPT for Teens is…
Google's AI can see your business data by default in Workspace - unless you disable it
In Google Workspace, Gemini has access to Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Chat, and more by default. Here's why it matters, and how administrators can disable it today.
Who is Garrett Langley? Flock Safety CEO faces scrutiny over AI cameras
Garrett Langley, Flock Safety CEO, faces scrutiny over AI license plate cameras, privacy concerns, surveillance and accuracy issues across the US.
‘It’s not about who can generate a homepage in 30 seconds’: Hostinger launches a new agentic AI Builder, helping businesses do more with AI
Hostinger launches new tool driven by a shift in how customers are using its platform.
'Beyond human intuition': AI designs chip components 500 times smaller than what engineers could ever imagine
Three new AI-designed chip components are just a few micrometers long and go beyond what human engineers have previously envisaged.
OpenAI Announces ChatGPT for Teens With Built-In Safeguards and Learning Prompts
OpenAI is adding a ChatGPT mode for teenagers that includes parental controls, enhanced content safeguards, and a focus on learning.
OpenAI Pot Complains That Google Kettle Is Black
Thibault Sottiaux, the OpenAI genius in charge of Codex and the new ChatGPT Homer Simpson car, on Twitter/X: I don’t come often to GMail [ sic ] (OpenAI is a Slack company), but I swear, every time I…
Customs to fight this growing trade fraud with AI ‘detective border’
A new White House report says transshipments have become a growing target of global scammers. The post Customs to fight this growing trade fraud with AI ‘detective border’ appeared first on…
AI creates new jobs in over half of UK firms - study
Artificial intelligence has created new jobs in more than half of UK firms, according to a study by British bank Lloyds, even as fears about its impact on employment grow.
Harvey's first LLM for legal work is here
Harvey's first AI model, Tenet, is designed to take on more of the tasks typically done by lawyers over hours or days.
Commerce AI is fragmenting. Here is why that matters.
Presented by Rezolve Ai Enterprise AI investment in commerce has never been higher. And enterprise AI outcomes in commerce have rarely been more inconsistent. That gap is not a coincidence. It is the predictable result of a pattern that has repeated itself across every major technology shift in retail: the industry adds new capabilities…
OpenAI built a version of ChatGPT that refuses to do your kid’s homework
The new ChatGPT for Teens locks down homework shortcuts and AI romance.
AI reveals distinct cell defects inside breast cancer
Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a powerful AI tool that reveals previously invisible patterns inside breast cancers. It uncovers how tiny cellular structures called centrosomes change as tumors grow, spread and evolve.
Hackers Tricked a Major Retailer’s AI Shopping Bot to Do Something It Was Never Supposed To
At the cybersecurity conference Black Hat, researchers showed how an AI assistant at one of America’s largest retailers could be tricked into following hidden instructions and exposing sensitive system information.
Even Claude says AI watermarking is no ‘silver bullet’
Claude has questioned whether watermarking AI-generated text can ever provide a foolproof way to identify machine-written material, just days after its maker, Anthropic, began embedding invisible marks into the chatbot’s own output.
UAE-developed AI platform aims to speed up diagnosis of rare diseases
Researchers at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi have developed iGenRARE, an agentic AI platform intended to support doctors in diagnosing more than 7,000 rare diseases. The technology analyses information collected from a patient’s hospital visits and compares it with evidence from medical literature and specialist rare-disease databases.
ChatGPT is getting a teen version, and I have a lot of questions
Teens are already using AI for homework and much more. OpenAI’s new ChatGPT experience wants to make sure they’re actually learning from it — with some serious guardrails attached.
The TechBeat: AI Coding Tip 030 - Turn Repeatable Skill Steps Into Tested Scripts Instead of Prompts (8/18/2026)
8/18/2026: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
We're asking the wrong question about the cost of enterprise AI
Token pricing hides the real cost of enterprise AI: the infrastructure powering every request.
Meet the Chinese AI star who splashed a reported US$70m on a California mansion
Tony Wu Yuhuai, the China-born co-founder of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence lab, sparked discussions across Chinese social media after reportedly spending US$70 million on a six-bedroom…
Teen builds AI-powered cane that describes surroundings and can call for help
Ishanvi Sabniveesu is the innovative mind behind CareCane, an AI-powered cane designed specifically for visually impaired individuals.
AMD claims its 2026 rack-scale AI solution is 4X more energy efficient than its 2024 AI platform — company says it's pacing ahead of 20X efficiency by 2030
AMD says its 2025 rack-scale AI system is 4X more energy efficient compared to its 2024 AI solution, though does not produce actual benchmark results.
Warp’s new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development
On Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, a new infrastrructure system designed to make building AI software factories as easy as possible.
Fact check: How do I spot AI-generated images?
Images created or manipulated with artificial intelligence tools are flooding social media. How can you know what’s real and what’s not? Here are a few tips.
Internet-enabled scams and AI pose challenges, Shanmugam tells MHA scholars
There were 40 recipients of the scholarships.
Perplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India
Perplexity's India revenue rose about 60% after the Airtel offer ended for new users, even as downloads declined.
Smack Technologies Raises $61M To Accelerate Military AI Decision-Making Software
Developing military AI demands immense capital, with the soaring upfront cost of building AI infrastructure stalling many defense startups before deployment.
Korea's first AI dating survival set to launch
Can a human truly fall in love with artificial intelligence (AI)? That is the central question behind SBS new unscripted series "My AI Partner — Strange Romance." Billed as Korea’s first AI dating…
Three Epic veterans are building an AI-powered game engine to break the industry's doom cycle
Unity and Unreal have dominated the development scene for a long time now, and were used to make roughly 70% of the games released on Steam in 2025 .
How to avoid Claude watermarking your content
The answer is where you least expect it.
- Anthropic will watermark Claude's LLM output to comply with EU AI Act.
- Watermarks attach to text based on specific word choices.
- Researchers seek alternative methods to avoid watermarks.
The next camera race will be about understanding
As AI moves from training to inference, sensors are increasingly judged by what machines can read.
Commentary: AI is no longer a bonus, it is becoming mandatory for the self-employed
ChatGPT & Co. are part of everyday life in private life, but often not in companies. However, AI agents can take over routine work - and decide whether a company survives in the long term.
OpenAI’s Greg Brockman: Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 likely to “significantly accelerate the threat landscape”
OpenAI has adopted a less-than-straightforward stance with regards to open-weight AI models, both raising alarms over powerful Chinese releases while The post OpenAI’s Greg Brockman: Z.ai’s GLM-5.3…
AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation tool that was launched in 2021 with the goal of becoming the new Zapier, is shutting down, and some of its staff — including its top executive — are joining…
NLPatent rebrands as Clerq, launches agentic patent research workflows
Toronto patent research startup NLPatent rebranded as Clerq today and launched its first agentic workflows. The software runs a full patentability analysis in about 10 minutes.
Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked
Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link.
Netflix Open-Sources Agentic Workflow for Causal Inference
Netflix open-sourced an agentic workflow for Observational Causal Inference (OCI) that reduces toil in causal analysis. Given observational data and the human user's analysis plan, the agent uses an…
Mozilla is bringing AI to Firefox—but only if you want it
Artificial intelligence is coming to Mozilla Firefox—but only for users who want it. Through a deal with AI search provider Exa , Mozilla announced on Tuesday what it calls Smart Window, browser…
STAT+: Prominent AI startup rolls out virtual cell model in race to speed up science
A prominent AI startup has rolled out a virtual cell model, advancing the race to speed up science.
Firefox’s AI Window Gets New Features Meant to Help You Stay on Task and Organized
You have to opt into using the browser if you want these features.