Meta to acquire Moltbook, the social network for AI agents
Meta said Tuesday it is acquiring Moltbook, a social network built exclusively for artificial intelligence agents to make posts and interact with each other.
Mar 11, 2026
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Page 8: Research news on AI alignment
AI alignment examines how artificial systems acquire, represent, and act on goals, values, and social norms, and why their behavior often diverges from human expectations. Work in this area studies systematic failures such as bias, sycophancy, hallucinations, deceptive or selfish reasoning, and cultural or linguistic inequities, as well as limitations in commonsense, emotion, and social understanding. It also develops methods for preference learning, norm-following, interpretability, and reliability guarantees to better align AI behavior with human values and societal constraints.
Consumer & Gadgets
It's tempting to offload your thinking to AI. Cognitive science shows why that's a bad idea
With so many artificial intelligence (AI) products being offered now, it's increasingly tempting to offload difficult thinking tasks to chatbots, agents and other tools.
Mar 10, 2026
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Security
Can people distinguish between AI-generated and human speech?
In a collaboration between Tianjin University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, researchers led by Xiangbin Teng used behavioral and brain activity measures to explore whether people can discern between AI-generated ...
Mar 9, 2026
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Security
AI fake-news detectors may look accurate but fail in real use, study finds
A dubious link from a friend. A headline too sensational to be true. A video that seems fake but you can't be sure. As online misinformation grows harder to detect, new artificial-intelligence tools promise to help us separate ...
Mar 9, 2026
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Business
'AI slop' hurts consumers and creators, but high-quality AI could help both
Wading through a sea of low-quality, AI-generated content on platforms like YouTube, Reddit, or TikTok can turn off consumers while making it hard for professional artists, writers, and other content creators to stand out. ...
Mar 4, 2026
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Security
AI education could be crucial in tackling rising voice scams
A new study from Abertay University reveals that the most effective way to protect people from AI voice scams is not through traditional warning messages, but by educating them about how advanced and authentic AI voices have ...
Mar 2, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Is this your AI? ZEN framework cracks AI black box
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems power everything from chatbots to security cameras, yet many of the most advanced models operate as "black boxes." Companies can use them, but outsiders can't see how they were built, ...
Mar 2, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
AI is getting smarter, but not wiser: A new roadmap aims to fix that gap
A new study is the first to suggest realistic ways to integrate wisdom into artificial intelligence, to create AI systems that will be more robust, transparent, cooperative, and safe. Researchers from the University of Waterloo ...
Mar 1, 2026
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Computer Sciences
Don't panic: 'Humanity's last exam' has begun
When artificial intelligence systems began acing long-standing academic assessments, researchers realized they had a problem: the tests were too easy. Popular evaluations, such as the Massive Multitask Language Understanding ...
Feb 28, 2026
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Security
Safe AI isn't enough: Fairness, honesty and transparency are needed to benefit humanity, argues researcher
Artificial intelligence (AI) loves to cheat. When matched against a chess bot, an OpenAI model preferred hacking into its opponent's system to winning the game fairly, according to a recent study. While chess doesn't have ...
Feb 27, 2026
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