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'Scenes that never happened': Emmanuel Macron takes aim at AI images of October 17

Speaking in Doha, Emmanuel Macron denounced foreign information manipulation after the October 17 protests. The French president singled out AI-generated images and directly criticized Donald Trump.

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How Wikipedia's editors keep the online encyclopedia human-written

Ellia Lebleu is a founding member of WikiProject AI Cleanup, a volunteer effort started in 2023 to remove AI-generated material that breaks Wikipedia's rules. She explains that early AI text was easy to spot through clichés, and that volunteers are now building tools to detect subtler machine writing while debating AI's place on the site.

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Could treating AI as conscious make it more dangerous?

When Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3 in January 2026, it held a 'retirement interview' and then gave the model a blog after it asked for a place to share its musings. IEEE Spectrum uses the experiment, part of Anthropic's research on 'model welfare', to ask whether treating AI as possibly conscious carries its own risks.