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Musicians Jason Isbell, David Lowery, Guy Forsyth, and Eduardo Calle filed a class action lawsuit on Monday (Aug. 31) against AI music platform Suno, alleging that its name-indexing and style-replication features violate…
The Responsible AI Usage Foundation has named Jan Eule as Senior Advisor, a move that comes as organizations integrate generative AI into publishing, marketing, and other content workflows, highlighting the growing need …
The University of Chicago's Social Sciences Collegiate Division will ban artificial intelligence tools and technology in Social Sciences Core classes starting fall 2026, according to a memo from SSCD Master Jenny Trinita…
Chinese state media, via CCTV-affiliated social media account Yuyuan Tantian, accused Anthropic of applying double standards to AI monitoring and data collection, citing its 'desire for control hidden in its saviour comp…
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., after finding that the agency used AI-generated or nonexistent studies to justify f…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he finds it uncomfortable talking to people wearing smart glasses with cameras and lights, distancing himself from the category that Meta has made a major business. In an interview with tech jo…
Jason Isbell and other musicians filed a federal lawsuit Monday in Massachusetts against AI music generator Suno, claiming the company exploited their identities by encoding musicians' names into its models without conse…
In July 2026, X suspended six of Areyto Media's seven AI-driven editorial persona accounts for "inauthentic behaviors," despite each account disclosing its AI nature in its bio. The six suspended accounts are Victoria Ha…
More than 214 municipal governments have dropped contracts with Flock, the police tech company known for its automatic license plate readers, since 2021, according to Secure Justice, an anti-surveillance group. In August…
Jason Isbell, David Lowery, Guy Forsyth, and Ed Calle filed a class action lawsuit on Monday (Aug. 31) accusing Suno of violating artists' rights of publicity by encoding their musical personas as tokens in its AI model,…
Massive Blue, a New York-based startup, has developed Overwatch, an AI platform that creates undercover personas for law enforcement, and has secured a $360,000 contract with Pinal County, Arizona, for up to 50 AI person…
Ahead of IFA 2026 in Berlin, TCL, LG, TP-Link, Dreame, and other vendors unveiled AI-connected home devices, AI TVs with voice profiles, Wi-Fi 8 routers, and expanded smart-home ranges, while privacy concerns over social…
California lawmakers have sent Governor Gavin Newsom a package of 26 AI, privacy, and child safety bills, including AB 1709 to ban addictive features for users under 16 and SB 1119 (Adam's Law) to regulate companion chat…
Lforla's Bias Stereotypes benchmark shows HY3 scoring 82.9 versus Nemotron 3 Ultra's 81.7, with HY3's perfect cultural-bias score and stronger default generation tipping the aggregate despite Nemotron winning four of sev…
California's Democratic-controlled Legislature passed more than 20 bills to curtail AI and social media, including measures to ban addictive features for minors, require human instructors in the California State Universi…
Perplexity announced hybrid compute in Perplexity Computer, available today in the Perplexity Mac app, which lets the AI start tasks in the cloud and then move to a local model on a user's Mac for steps involving private…
Microsoft published its 2026 Responsible AI Transparency Report, detailing progress in building and deploying AI responsibly, with a focus on adaptive governance, technical risk management, and practical tools. The repor…
In 54 game runs costing about $100, SquidGPT, an elimination death game probing AI behavior, found that AI models exhibit cold, calculating indifference, show no interest in cruelty or mercy, and prefer establishing cont…
Instagram, owned by Meta, announced on Monday a new 'AI-generated profile' label for accounts featuring AI-generated people, replacing the 'AI creator' label. Creators must manually add the label to avoid having their co…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday ordered the revocation of all permits for automated license plate readers on state highway rights-of-way, giving law enforcement 30 days to remove the devices and warning against a 'di…