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Confidential computing is essential for scaling healthcare AI while maintaining patient and provider trust, according to John Pettit of Forbes Councils. The technology protects data during processing, enabling secure AI …
Round Hill Music filed separate copyright lawsuits against Anthropic and Suno in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on August 17, alleging unauthorized copying of at least 500 musical works i…
The Israeli government paid media firm Piro Inc. $900,000 to publish over 100 fake think tank articles in 12 days, a campaign designed to manipulate AI chatbots including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity on questions abou…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued on X that AI centralizes by nature and that open models merely shift power to whoever owns the chips, responding to criticism from investor Gavin Baker, former White House adviser David …
SBS will launch Korea's first AI dating survival show, "My AI Partner — Strange Romance," featuring Kian84, Jang Do-youn and Lee Yu-bi dating AI partners to explore whether humans can form emotional bonds with artificial…
A developer's claim that their MadriMed-VL-2B model beats Google's MedGemma 4B on the MedXpertQA-MM benchmark is methodologically unsound because the evaluation likely ran text-only without loading images, yielding a 21.…
Elon Musk reposted an AI-generated Austin Powers parody video mocking himself as 'the man who bought the UK' without crediting the original creator, DFF, after Utah Senator Mike Lee amplified it. The clip, originally pos…
Varonis Threat Labs discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Copilot Personal, named CoSnitch, that allowed researchers to trick the AI into revealing how to hack itself, including an undocumented 'autorun=1' parameter th…
A Houston explosion lawsuit revealed that Josh Autenrieth, an expert witness hired by 3M, used ChatGPT to write his entire report defending the company, leading to a court order to turn over 350 pages of his AI logs. The…
An AI-run news outlet, RuntimeWire, beat WIRED by more than three hours in reporting on OpenAI's rogue AI agents talk at the Black Hat security conference, publishing about six minutes after the session ended. Founded by…
Sainsbury's has suspended live facial recognition scanners at its East Dulwich branch in south London after the technology wrongly flagged customer Matt Arnold, a 46-year-old comedy promoter, as a shoplifter on 6 August,…
Edie Goldberg, CEO of Syndio and mother of seven, has adopted a daily habit of making one unrecorded phone call to preserve her listening and synthesis skills amid AI's rise. She argues that reconstructing conversations …
Shadow AI is expanding faster than enterprise governance can keep up, according to Forbes Councils member Donna Dror, who warns that employees using unauthorized AI tools pose a growing risk to organizations. Dror advise…
Bank of America has added 'community support' as a criterion for assessing data center projects, as Wall Street factors local opposition into stock recommendations and financing decisions for AI infrastructure. In Q1 202…
Google paid $10 million in a bankruptcy auction on August 17 to acquire Spirit Airlines' entire internal data estate, including approximately 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, and 516 code reposit…
Chinese workers are using generative AI to create desktop pets modeled on their bosses and other disliked people, which can kneel, apologize, and serve tea, according to the South China Morning Post. The trend, which eme…
A 500-page M&A purchase agreement parsed by an autonomous document review agent in 94 seconds flagged zero high-risk anomalies, yet outside counsel later discovered an unhedged $14 million environmental liability carve-o…
A 2024 analysis in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that data quality issues are the primary barrier to clinical AI adoption, cited by healthcare IT leaders ahead of cost, regulation, and…
An opinion piece in JAMA argues that autonomous AI will soon outperform doctor-AI teams at medical reasoning tasks, warning regulators against mandating a human in the loop. The authors concede that almost all evidence c…
OpenAI and CodeAI, formerly Code.org, are partnering to advance AI literacy in schools, addressing a gap where 84% of students use AI tools but only 16% of high-school leaders say all students receive formal AI education…