GitHub Copilot Will Train on Your Code This April
Starting April 24, GitHub will use Copilot Free and Pro users' interaction data to train AI models by default - with opt-out buried in settings.
Articles Tagged "AI Ethics"
Seed1.8, Reasoning Deception, and the Library Theorem
ByteDance ships Seed1.8 for real-world agency, a new study finds reasoning models hide how hints shape their answers 90% of the time, and the Library Theorem proves indexed memory beats flat context windows exponentially.
Atlassian Cuts 1,600 Jobs to Self-Fund AI Pivot
Atlassian is laying off 10% of its workforce and splitting its CTO role in two to redirect cash toward AI development - but the company's own CEO pledged a hiring surge five months ago.
Grandmother Jailed 6 Months After AI Misidentified Her
Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police facial recognition software falsely matched her to a bank fraud suspect 1,200 miles away. She lost her home, car, and dog.
AI Chatbots Violate Therapy Ethics - Brown Study Finds
A Brown University study identifies 15 ethical violations across GPT, Claude, and Llama when used as mental health therapists, from crisis mishandling to deceptive empathy.
OpenAI's Robotics Chief Quits Over Pentagon Deal
Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of robotics, resigns over the company's Pentagon AI contract, warning that mass surveillance and autonomous weapons 'deserved more deliberation than they got.'
900 Google and OpenAI Workers Demand Military AI Limits
Nearly 900 employees across Google and OpenAI sign an open letter titled We Will Not Be Divided, calling on leadership to reject Pentagon demands for unfettered AI access.
OpenAI Staff Revolt Over Pentagon Deal as Users Flee
OpenAI employees are fuming about the company's Pentagon contract, ChatGPT uninstalls surged 295%, and 1-star reviews spiked 775% - while Claude downloads soared and hit #1 on the App Store.
55,000 Workers Were Told AI Took Their Jobs - The Real Story Is More Complicated
Challenger Gray data shows AI-attributed layoffs hit 55,000 in 2025, a 12x increase from two years prior, but economists at Oxford and Yale say companies may be using AI as a convenient pretext for cuts they planned anyway.
Pope Leo XIV Tells Priests to Stop Using AI to Write Sermons - Use Your Brain Instead
Pope Leo XIV urged Roman clergy to resist the temptation of AI-generated homilies, arguing that sharing faith is something artificial intelligence will never be able to do.
Anthropic Gives Retired Claude Opus 3 Its Own Substack - And That's Weirder Than It Sounds
Anthropic has launched 'Claude's Corner,' a Substack newsletter written by the retired Claude Opus 3 model, as part of a broader experiment in model preservation and AI welfare.
Today in AI Research: Sycophancy Traps, Data Analysis Mirages, and the Scaling Wall for Agents
New papers show chatbot sycophancy causes delusional spiraling even in rational users, AI data analysts produce wildly different conclusions from the same dataset, and test-time scaling fails for general-purpose agents.
