The European Parliament has temporarily disabled AI features on lawmakers' official devices, citing concerns that sensitive information could be sent outside its secure systems.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/european-parlia…
National Today, a site that mimics news outlets and includes subdomains for dozens of US cities, appears to use AI to plagiarize articles from multiple sources (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/national-today-ai-plagiari…
Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war.
On the night of 27 February, the day before the US and Israel would carry out strikes on Iran, an unusual influx of about 150 accounts on Polymarket placed bets that the US would strike Iran the next day.
A New York Times analysis found the bets totaled $855,000, with 16 accounts pocketing more than $100,000 each.
Soon after, a single anonymous Polymarket user, under an account named “Magamyman”, made o…
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