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A defamation lawsuit filed by Canadian fiddler Ashley MacIsaac against Google LLC over an AI-generated summary that falsely claimed he had a serious criminal record has ended, leaving unresolved questions about accountab…
Saber Interactive added an AI disclaimer to the Steam page for its upcoming game after a public dispute between CEO Matthew Karch and former writer Susan Wilson, stating that 'AI can and should help shape gamer experienc…
Computer scientist Jaron Lanier told Neil deGrasse Tyson and Negin Farsad on StarTalk that AI systems are not black boxes but are filled with people and their data, reiterating his 2023 New Yorker essay 'There Is No AI.'…
An analysis by Scalevise cautions that claims of AI models exhibiting human-like reading behaviors, such as skipping predictable words or revisiting difficult text, lack credible primary research and should not influence…
A developer proposed a 'Free-Model Agreement Test' to evaluate AI code generation tools, focusing on whether they can produce code that adheres to open-source licensing terms. The test aims to help developers choose mode…
AI adoption among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is driven by trust, according to Ralph Haupter, a Forbes Councils member. Haupter emphasizes that SMEs must balance global innovation with local accountability,…
Anna's Archive, the world's largest shadow library, is urging volunteers worldwide to scan and upload physical books before AI companies destroy them, claiming Anthropic's 'Project Panama' spent tens of millions of dolla…
A Hacker News user questioned whether AI watermarking, as implemented by Anthropic's Claude, could create a new attack vector by storing metadata that could de-anonymize open source contributors or reveal internal compan…
A follow-up investigation by a website owner found that a hidden redirect attack on his sites was caused by a compromised Ad Inserter plugin storing malicious JavaScript in the WordPress database, not by the Chinese anal…
Zoom Workplace users should update to version 7.1.5 or 7.0.6 to patch three annotation flaws that could let a meeting participant execute code on another participant's client, according to Zoom security bulletins publish…
Nvidia announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish financing platforms that could mobilize more than $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure…
California lawmakers are moving to regulate AI-generated political ads as such content floods social media ahead of the 2026 midterms, with U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Ro Khanna reintroducing the AI Ads Act in Congres…
Arm co-founder Hermann Hauser warned that while the AI revolution is real, the current investment environment carries bubble risk, telling CNBC's The Tech Download podcast that the technology will transform industries bu…
Bully Pulpit International's second annual Reputation Resilience Index finds that AI is eroding corporate reputation, with 81% of consumers agreeing that AI makes it too easy to spread false rumors about companies and on…
A Reddit user scraped over 12 million images (12 terabytes) from Cara, an anti-AI photo-sharing app founded by photographer Jingna Zhang, and boasted about it in a now-deleted post on r/DefendingAIArt, saying it cost und…
Missouri state senator Joe Nicola, a Republican, is among lawmakers in several Republican-led states pushing legislation to prohibit AI from gaining legal personhood, aiming to block human-AI marriages that are emerging …
A non-lawyer used Anthropic's Claude AI to draft a 3,000-word arbitration response for a friend's labor dispute, but the defense inadvertently favored the employer, highlighting that AI tools level the playing field for …
The EU Product Liability Directive ((EU) 2024/2853) will apply from December 9, 2026, explicitly classifying software as a product under strict liability rules, making failure to ship security updates for known vulnerabi…
A nationally representative survey of UK adults by the Oxford Internet Institute found that 31% of regular large language model (LLM) users employ them for emotional support, and nearly 25% use them for meaningful conver…
Gartner's 2019 prediction that 80% of project management tasks would be automated by 2030 raises questions about the remaining 20% that require human judgment, according to a veteran CIO. The author argues that AI cannot…