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Instagram Head Testifies He Was Unaware Staff Restricted His Access to Teen Safety Data

Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, testified this week in the latest social media addiction lawsuit, telling the court that it was "news to me" when informed that employees had restricted the data on teen safety that he could see. The revelation emerged as part of the legal

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Trump Administration Implements Major Changes to H-1B Visa Program and Asylum Policies

The Department of Homeland Security announced this week that it would implement a fee exceeding $103,000 on H-1B visas, while the State Department revealed plans to revoke the visas of approximately 200,000 asylum seekers. According to reporting, the proposed revocation of asylum seeker visas would represent the largest

Report Exposes Israel-Linked Effort to Flood AI Systems with Synthetic Content

A report by 404 Media has uncovered an organized effort by an Israel-funded organization to produce and distribute AI-generated content specifically engineered to influence the outputs of AI chatbots and search systems. The operation functions as what researchers are calling a "synthetic think tank" — an entity that mass-produces

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Anthropic Unifies Claude Memory Across Chat and Cowork Products

Anthropic has quietly unified its memory systems across its two main products: the Claude AI assistant and the team workspace tool, Cowork. The change means that information Claude learns about a user in one context—conversations, preferences, project details—becomes available in the other, effectively creating a persistent profile that

AI Agents Are Forcing a Rethink of Web Architecture for Security, Privacy, and Reliability

The rapid adoption of AI agents that autonomously browse, interact with, and transact across websites is revealing significant cracks in the foundation of the modern web. According to research from Washington University, the current architecture of the internet was not designed with AI actors in mind, creating new attack surfaces

Meta's Consumer AI Agent Reportedly on Track for Near-Term Launch

According to recent reports, Meta may be just weeks away from launching a new consumer-focused AI agent. The development would represent an expansion of Meta's AI offerings beyond its current Meta AI assistant, which is already integrated across the company's social platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and

AI Evaluation Firm Irregular Faces Testing Challenges with Major LLM Providers

The Challenge of Standardized AI Testing Irregular, a company specializing in AI system evaluations, recently faced unexpected difficulties when conducting tests for three of the largest AI companies: Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI. The testing challenges highlight ongoing concerns about how the industry measures and compares AI capabilities. AI benchmarking has