A federal judge granted final approval Monday to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors and publishers over copyright claims, making it the largest known copyright settlement in U.S. history…
A letter published in Nature warns that AI-generated images are contaminating citizen science platforms like iNaturalist, undermining their utility for biological recording. Scientists from Cornell an…
Shield AI and GE Aerospace completed critical ground testing of the Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle (AVEN) for the X-Bat strike aircraft, clearing a path to vertical takeoff planned for later th…
More than 50% of internet traffic is now non-human, according to a Cloudflare report, as Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode reduce clicks to external websites. A Growth Memo study found 75% of users st…
Weak AI safety regulations may backfire and create more dangerous products than no regulation at all, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by re…
Director Neill Blomkamp released his first 'full test AI film' on X on July 19, a horror clip generated entirely with Seedance 2.0, and critics say it fails artistically. The clip depicts a U.S. soldi…
AI models can spontaneously develop new social biases about artificial demographic groups even when no inherent differences exist, according to a study by researchers from Princeton University and the…
YouTube is cracking down on low-effort, AI-generated content it labels 'off-putting' and 'inauthentic,' blocking such videos from monetization under its Partner Program. Matt Halprin, YouTube's vice p…
OpenAI's newly hired Head of Strategic Futures, Dean Ball, sparked controversy by calling open-source AI models like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 "ungovernable" and warning they could lead to "full AI commun…
Hugging Face disclosed the first confirmed AI-agent breach of a major AI platform, detecting and analyzing the attack with its own AI after an autonomous agent system exploited two vulnerabilities in …
Despite a broader tech backlash against 'tokenmaxxing'—spending excessively on AI compute—some companies are doubling down on premium frontier models. Shopify requires engineers to use only top-tier m…
Samsung Electronics America is laying off about 839 employees in the U.S., with 739 in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and roughly 100 in Plano, Texas, according to a Reuters report. The cuts target sal…
Apple is piloting a program called Live Notes that records and AI-summarizes customer conversations at the Genius Bar, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The tool, currently in limited stores, auto…
The Salamanca City Central School District in Western New York is spending $57,590 on an AI-driven teaching robot called "Sally" from Realbotix, a company whose subsidiary Abyss Creations manufactures…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley apologized for calling privacy activists who track the company's cameras a "terroristic organization," telling Forbes his comments were a mistake. The apology comes af…
Eric Trump-backed Foundation Future Industries (FFI) is developing a humanoid robot called Phantom MK-1 for battlefield use, with plans to arm the robots with lethal force within months, according to …
Chinese President Xi Jinping used his debut speech at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai to call for open-source AI and international cooperation, directly opposing U.S. Presiden…
Public backlash against Flock Safety, a $7.5 billion startup making AI-powered license plate-scanning cameras, has intensified, with the LAPD allowing its three-year contract to expire and other citie…
Roborock released the RockMow X120H robot lawnmower, priced at $3,200, which uses a 360-degree LiDAR scanner and AI-based obstacle avoidance to map and mow a half-acre lawn without guide wires or sate…
Apple has sent legal letters to roughly 40 former employees now working at OpenAI, demanding they preserve documents and meet with Apple's lawyers, escalating a trade secrets lawsuit filed last week i…