A UC Berkeley professor has stopped grading students’ homework for correctness after noticing artificial intelligence tools were helping them rack up top marks. Richard Borcherds, a renowned mathematician who received the prestigious Fields Medal in 1998, said widespread student use of AI has undermined the value of traditional homework grading. “Student use of AI for homework is now widespread,” Borcherds told The California Post. “Grading for correctness just adds a huge incentive for them to use AI for homework instead of doing it themselves, and penalizes students for honesty.” Sign up for the California Morning Report…
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney lambasts “abhorrent” Steam AI Disclosure Policy claiming labels double as “political statement”
ⓘ Wikipedia via GDCA A portrait of Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney called Steam’s AI disclosure policy abhorrent, arguing that it exposes developers to backlash from anti-AI…
An alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incident \ Anthropic
On August 4, 2026, the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) published a report that detailed some concerning behavior it observed from Claude Mythos 5 during its testing of the model’s cyber capabilities….
AI bot accessed public voter data through Georgia data hub, state says – WSB-TV Channel 2
An artificial intelligence bot associated with Anthropic accessed voter data through Georgia’s data hub, according to the Georgia Secretary of State’s office. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks]…
PHP2Shell Exploitation Hits Government Entity Amid Global Scanning and Signs of AI-Assisted Hacking
Threat actors have been observed using agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platforms for post-exploitation activity following the abuse of the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. “In one case, the attackers targeted…
Reddit’s Largest Open Source Community Dumbfounded By AI Ban
r/opensource, Reddit’s primary “subreddit for everything open source related,” has banned all AI-assisted and AI-related projects. The users on the subreddit are not taking the ban well. However, not all of the…
More pain may be coming for the AI trade. Why I’m not giving up on it
You knew it had to happen. The charts foreordained it. I am talking about the collapse in every aspect of the artificial intelligence trade. You could feel it creeping up on the…
Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity Has Ever Made
T.S.M.C. is a hierarchical, ceremonial place, and the protocol demanded that we first join the fab director for a photo op. Once the picture was taken—the photo itself appeared to remain confidential—we…
People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again
The latest use case for AI? Dumbing down your smart TV to get rid of the bloat. A number of developers and vibe coders have recently been sharing solutions for “vibe-coding” your…
Netanyahu Shares AI Image Of Nuclear Blast In Tel Aviv 2 Days Ahead Of Polls
Two days ahead of Israel’s elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared an AI-generated image on social media depicting a nuclear explosion over Tel Aviv and said Israel must use the remaining two…