A Paris Founder's Viral Open-Source Tool Exposes the Weakness in AI Watermarks
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A Paris Founder's Viral Open-Source Tool Exposes the Weakness in AI Watermarks

Guillaume Meyer built a watermark remover in five hours after Anthropic's announcement. Its rapid spread highlights the ...

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Meta Opens Its Strongest AI Model to the Public and Challenges OpenAI and Anthropic
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Meta Opens Its Strongest AI Model to the Public and Challenges OpenAI and Anthropic

The social giant will release Muse Spark 1.2 weights and a laptop-focused Muse Glimmer family, positioning open-source A...

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Snowflake Volunteer Turns Android Phones into Tor Proxies for Censored Users
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Snowflake Volunteer Turns Android Phones into Tor Proxies for Censored Users

The Tor Project's new Android app lets anyone lend spare bandwidth as a rotating Tor entry point. Hands-on testing shows...

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X Opens Its Ranking Algorithm and Adds a Shadowban Checker
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X Opens Its Ranking Algorithm and Adds a Shadowban Checker

X published more of its 'For You' code on GitHub and introduced tools that let accounts see if ranking labels have limit...

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Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Manifesto: Open Models, Earlier U.S. Oversight, $1 Billion Fund
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Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Manifesto: Open Models, Earlier U.S. Oversight, $1 Billion Fund

Meta's CEO urges open-source AI and earlier government collaboration, defends distillation, and launches a $1 billion da...

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Zuckerberg Defends Open-Source Superintelligence, Pledges $1B Community Fund
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Zuckerberg Defends Open-Source Superintelligence, Pledges $1B Community Fund

Mark Zuckerberg outlines Meta’s vision of widespread superintelligence access, proposes government collaboration on AI s...

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Tech’s Two-Faced Approach: Open AI and the Sealed Borders of Robotics
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Tech’s Two-Faced Approach: Open AI and the Sealed Borders of Robotics

In the same week, US regulators moved to block foreign-made advanced robots while tech giants led by Nvidia called for o...

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Desktop Linux Hits Record 10.65% Share in North America as Windows 11 Frustrations Mount
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Desktop Linux Hits Record 10.65% Share in North America as Windows 11 Frustrations Mount

Linux desktop use has doubled past 10% in North America, with Windows 10's end of support and Windows 11's AI push drivi...

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China's State Council Lays Out IP Rules for AI and Open Source by 2030
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China's State Council Lays Out IP Rules for AI and Open Source by 2030

China's new five-year IP plan targets algorithms, AI-generated works, data and open-source licensing, shifting policy fr...

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India Orders GitHub to Delete Bitchat Repositories, Raising Legal Red Flags
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India Orders GitHub to Delete Bitchat Repositories, Raising Legal Red Flags

The Indian government has asked GitHub to remove code for Jack Dorsey's offline messaging app, arguing its architecture ...

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OpenAI and Anthropic's AI Guardrails Are Blocking the Defenders Who Need Them Most
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OpenAI and Anthropic's AI Guardrails Are Blocking the Defenders Who Need Them Most

Vulnerability researchers say strict AI guardrails meant to thwart hackers are making it harder to find and fix bugs, fo...

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Jack Dorsey Backs Open-Source AI Warning as US-China Cost Divide Widens
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Jack Dorsey Backs Open-Source AI Warning as US-China Cost Divide Widens

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey endorsed venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya's alarm that US restrictions on open-sou...

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