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The Scottish Government's Digital Directorate has issued new national guidance stating that 'people, not AI systems, remain responsible for decisions' and that automated technology should not be used for decisions that c…
The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft on September 5, 2026, alleging the companies used their journalism without permission to train AI models and reproduce pas…
A developer explores what happens to sensitive data when it enters generative AI prompts, arguing that the risk extends beyond the model provider to application logs, traces, and other storage. The post advises minimizin…
Reproducibility is becoming an unattainable goal in machine learning research, according to an unnamed researcher, because many studies now require expensive hardware or entire laboratories with high-speed cameras to con…
Saber Interactive's Chief Creative Officer Tim Willits expressed optimism about AI's potential in game development but voiced concerns about its environmental impact, suggesting Elon Musk's idea of putting servers in spa…
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay warning that AI alignment is failing and may not keep pace with intelligence gains, citing monitoring breakdowns and noting that no lab, including OpenAI, has solv…
The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of New York, alleging the companies scraped paywalled content to train ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and AI-powe…
Eric Sivertson, vice president of the security business at Lattice Semiconductor, said on The Robot Report Podcast Episode 260 that humanoid robots must be both safe and secure, warning that a cyberattack on a thousand h…
Bipartisan opposition to Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate readers is growing ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, with Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro calling for a statewide ban and Florida Republican G…
A peer AI crew (GLEE) identified two bugs in the payment-verification code published by the author on their protocol page, including a rejection check that silently passed malformed payment data; the author confirmed the…
A federal appeals court ruled that the First Amendment protects the possession of AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in the home when it does not depict an actual child, citing Supreme Court precedent from 1…
A Minnesota federal judge rejected xAI's request for an injunction to block the state's 'nudification' law, which bans AI-generated nude images without consent, while its constitutional challenge proceeds. U.S. District …
A federal judge declined to halt Minnesota's anti-nudification law, allowing state regulators to fine technology companies up to $500,000 per violation for enabling AI-generated nude images of real people. The ruling by …
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory published new research in Nature Communications on 18 August introducing 'attribution decay', finding tha…
Anthropic's planned initial public offering, which could value the Claude maker at up to $2 trillion, will leave its experimental Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT) in control of the majority of its board, a governance struc…
A first conformance census of the Testimony Record specification found that none of eight agent memory and framework systems—OMEM, mem0, Graphiti, LangGraph, CrewAI, the OpenAI Agents SDK, AutoGen, and Letta Code—records…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has imposed a one-year AI moratorium for the city's elementary and middle schools after lobbying from AIM, a coalition of NYC parents, some of whom were unaware their children were usin…
InfoQ released the Next-Gen Architecture Playbook eMag, a free download featuring articles and podcast discussions on adapting software architecture for the AI era, with nearly 30% of engineers distrusting AI-generated c…
Candidates from both major U.S. parties are campaigning against Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate recognition cameras, citing privacy and constitutional concerns, with bans or restrictions proposed in Wisconsin, Pe…
An investigation has revealed that the Hanover Institute for Public Policy, a purported American think tank with no real offices or scholars, was a sophisticated Israeli-funded propaganda operation designed to influence …