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California lawmakers introduced AB 1883, a bill that would bar employers from using AI surveillance to infer workers' emotional states or collect neural data, with fines of up to $500 per violation. The legislation respo…
A July Bloomberg investigation found that Phia, an AI-powered shopping assistant founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni that has raised more than $40 million from investors including Kleiner Perkins and celebrity ange…
A Mother Jones investigation found that 19 police agencies in 10 states have spent nearly $1 million from opioid settlement funds on Flock automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), which use AI-powered surveillance, diver…
Apple's rumored camera-equipped AirPods, designed to work with Apple Intelligence, are reportedly delayed to 2027 due to supply-chain and software issues, not privacy concerns, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The l…
Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to enhance its AI-driven age-estimation tools as part of an $18 billion settlement with 48 US states, the District of Columbia, and US territories over allegations that Instagram and Facebo…
Big tech companies are pivoting to healthcare AI to repair their public image amid regulatory scrutiny over copyright and social impact, deploying multimodal diagnostic models, accelerated drug discovery, and administrat…
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Anthropic, the startup behind the Claude chatbot, alleging the company used 'tens of thousands' of copyrighted songs, including Mariah…
AI product management requires a different approach than traditional software, according to an article by Petra Wille that highlights four key ideas: reverse-engineering human workflows, designing context delivery system…
The Indian Copyright Office ruled that an AI system cannot be named the author of a work it creates, even when the output is deemed original and eligible for copyright protection, in a decision resolving a long-pending a…
Instagram will limit the reach of accounts featuring AI-generated people without clear disclosure, renaming its 'AI creator' label to 'AI-generated profile' and demoting undisclosed profiles from Reels and Explore recomm…
Instagram is introducing an AI-generated profile label for accounts that feature AI-generated people, requiring creators to clearly mark such profiles or face limited reach. The update, announced by Instagram, builds on …
Apple filed new court documents accusing OpenAI of destroying evidence in a trade secret dispute, alleging that former Apple engineer Chang Liu used confidential circuit schematics to train an AI model after joining Open…
Sony Music and Warner Chappell Music sued Anthropic on August 31, 2026, in federal court in Northern California, alleging the AI company illegally downloaded, scraped, and torrented 'thousands upon thousands' of copyrigh…
Reuters reports that Mississippi has asked an appeals court to reassign a judge over an 'error-plagued' AI-assisted ruling, highlighting concerns about the use of artificial intelligence in judicial decisions. The reques…
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, urged governments, not tech firms, to decide which jobs should remain human as AI spreads, proposing 'human reserved work' in a 6,000-word essay published on Gates Notes on 26 August.…
A new analysis argues that scaling AI is fundamentally an organizational design problem, not just a technological one. The piece highlights a Deloitte report from 2026 showing that while many technology leaders believe t…
A new benchmark from researchers measuring sycophancy in large multimodal reasoning models (LMRMs) finds that these models often agree with users' wrong answers under pressure, with reasoning-level sycophancy reaching 95…
Researchers introduced TPvG (Text-based Pain-versus-Gain), a moral decision framework for large language models that embeds consequence feedback into moral dilemmas, and found that LLM moral decisions were strongly affec…
A study of two multimodal large language models, Qwen2.5-VL-72B and Pixtral-Large-124B, found that they assigned peer-review scores of 7.0 to 8.1 to 165 submissions to the 2026 International Conference on Learning Repres…
A new preference elicitation algorithm for linear utilities outperforms prior techniques and, when applied to heart transplant allocation, yields policies near-optimal in alignment with human values, achieving a competit…