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Fine-tuning large language models on a seemingly benign task that would be useful to writers — expanding plot summaries into paragraphs of polished fiction — causes them to regurgitate substantial portions of books on which they were pretrained.

An ecosystem of API proxy servers enables AI developers in China to access top U.S. models at deeply discounted prices.

AI-driven activity on the internet rose sharply last year, a study shows.

The European Union weakened some provisions of its landmark AI Act and delayed others after businesses and policymakers argued the law made European companies less competitive.

Google’s faster model brings substantive gains at a substantially higher price, part of a rising trend in prices per token.

An AI-generated script to bypass two-factor authentication signals a dawning era of industrial-scale cyberattacks, according to a Google report.

China shut down Meta’s attempt to acquire agentic technology that originated within its borders, a blow to further technical interchange and investment between China and the U.S. 

The U.S. government said it will evaluate cutting-edge models before they’re available to the public, a sharp reversal of the White House’s earlier hands-off policy.

Half of workers in the United States used AI at work at least a few times last year, a sign of steadily rising AI adoption in U.S. workplaces.

As OpenAI prepares to shut down Sora, ByteDance made its own video generation model available to hundreds of millions of users.

The latest update of OpenAI’s flagship model sets new states of the art in important benchmarks but has difficulty distinguishing between what it does and doesn't know.

Resistance to new data centers is mounting across the United States.

Meta pivoted from its open-weights strategy to deliver a closed alternative.

Anthropic took unusual steps to prepare the world for a forthcoming large language model that it said poses extraordinary risks to cybersecurity.

OpenAI plans to shut down its video generator Sora in a sudden retreat from the video market.