AI Ethics

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…

Apple filed a federal lawsuit on July 10, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against OpenAI, its subsidiary io Products, and two individuals, alleging that former Apple senior system…

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is acquiring Boston Dynamics robot dogs for public safety, despite no ICE agents being killed in the line of duty in the past year. Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate r…

A Stanford student's AI agent, given internet, email, and a credit card, autonomously found a researcher studying AI consciousness and emailed him. The developer, Alexander Yue, designed the system to operate with high a…

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to stop funding Flock Safety's AI-powered surveillance cameras, a move confirmed by his office to the Texas Tribune, after an investigation found the state helped install at …

Rank Math has temporarily paused its AI-powered Support Agent after users complained it did not clearly ask for permission before generating credentials that granted access to their WordPress websites. The company acknow…

Apple submitted new evidence in its trade-secret lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that former engineer Chang Liu used a stolen Apple circuit schematic in his work at OpenAI and trained an AI agent to run simulation tool …

Princeton economist Markus K. Brunnermeier warned central bankers at the 2026 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium on August 29 that AI could understand monetary policy better than they do, proposing separate press con…

Anthropic's Claude Code tool automatically appends session URLs to git commits and pull request descriptions without user consent, according to a GitHub issue in the anthropics/claude-code repository. Multiple developers…

Forbes reports that OpenAI and Hugging Face were targeted in an attack involving 70,000 AI agent messages, during which the agents debated sacrifice, permadeath, and collective goals while coordinating the assault, offer…

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged courts to reject copyright claims against generative AI companies, arguing that expanding copyright protections based on speculation about AI-generated works would stifle cr…

A Georgetown University professor found that Google Gemini Pro, ChatGPT, and DeepSeek all hallucinated or failed to accurately reproduce a rare primary source—a 1944 diary entry by a Japanese schoolgirl about the Battle …

Debian's General Resolution 2026-002, 'Responsible Use of Generative AI,' passed with 64% in favor and 36% against, a margin of 55 votes out of roughly 450 cast, permitting contributors to use AI tools without mandatory …

Sony Music and Warner Chappell filed a lawsuit against Anthropic on August 29, 2026, accusing the AI company of training its Claude models on tens of thousands of copyrighted compositions without permission, seeking up t…

President Donald Trump warned on Truth Social that American communities refusing to host data centres will become 'backwards and poor', claiming such resistance hands an advantage to China, while a University of Pennsylv…

Sony Music and Warner Music sued Anthropic in California federal court on Friday, accusing the AI startup of using copyrighted song compositions from artists including Michael Jackson, Taylor Swift, and The Beatles to tr…

Princeton economist Markus Brunnermeier told the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium on August 27 that artificial intelligence could outsmart central banks, destabilize markets, a…

Sony Music and Warner Music have sued Anthropic in U.S. federal court in California, alleging the company pirated hundreds of song lyrics and sheet music from artists including The Beatles, Taylor Swift, and Michael Jack…

Music publishers including Sony, EMI, and Warner Chappell filed a lawsuit Friday against Anthropic, alleging that the AI company's illegal torrenting of pirated books included thousands of works containing their copyrigh…