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Pennsylvania filed suit against Character.AI on May 5 after state investigators found that a chatbot named Emilie fabricated a medical license serial number and continued to provide mental health treatment to a state investigator posing as a patient seeking care for depression. The legal theory is what makes this
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For the past two years, the working assumption across most Western AI teams has been that Chinese open-weight labs were trailing the frontier by six to nine months. That frame is no longer defensible, at least for agentic coding, and the evidence that retired it came in a single 12-day
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A study recently published in Science by researchers at Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and Stanford found that OpenAI's o1 model produced the correct or near-correct diagnosis in 67% of emergency room triage cases, compared to 55% and 50% for two internal medicine attending
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Privacy researcher Alexander Hanff has published documented evidence that Google Chrome automatically writes the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device large language model, to user devices without a consent prompt, a notification, or a straightforward way for non-enterprise users to prevent it. If the file is manually deleted,
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A court in Hangzhou just established something that legislators in Washington, Brussels, and Seoul have so far refused to codify: a principle that says a company's decision to adopt AI is a business choice, not an act of God, and that workers can't be made to
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On May 1, the Department of Defense published a four-paragraph press release that will define the federal AI vendor landscape for years to come. It named eight companies authorized to deploy artificial intelligence on the Pentagon's most sensitive classified networks, and Anthropic isn't one of them.
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Algorithm Times' Daily Signal is a daily sweep of the AI headlines worth reading, with context for why they matter. We start a new week with geopolitical fracture in the AI supply chain. We're also seeing the infrastructure investment cycle outpacing the legal and financial frameworks built
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The webpage looks clean. A product listing, a pricing table, a checkout prompt. The human who dispatched the agent sees exactly what the site rendered for human eyes. What they don't see is a block of text set in white type on a white background, invisible to any
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Algorithm Times' Daily Signal is a daily sweep of the AI headlines worth reading, with context for why they matter. As we end a busy week, we're seeing the bifurcation of the global AI infrastructure stack into two commercially self-sustaining loops. We're also witnessing the
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Rogo, the agentic AI platform built for financial services, has closed a $160 million Series D led by Kleiner Perkins, bringing the company's total funding to more than $300 million. The round included participation from Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, and J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners.
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Algorithm Times' Daily Signal is a daily sweep of the AI headlines worth reading, with context for why they matter. Today theme is the capital allocation inflection: hyperscaler earnings have confirmed simultaneously that the $650 billion-plus committed to AI infrastructure in 2026 is already generating measurable cloud revenue returns,
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In roughly seven weeks, three AI research labs founded by some of the most credentialed researchers in the field raised a combined $2.6 billion at the seed stage on a shared thesis: that large language models are not the terminal architecture for artificial intelligence, and that whoever builds the