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A new paper by two economists, titled 'The AI Layoff Trap,' argues that firms will adopt labor-saving AI even when it destroys the consumer demand they depend on, because each firm captures the full cost savings but bear…
AI startup TrustedRouter has raised $1.25 million, according to an Axios report. The company offers a privacy-focused router for AI services, allowing users to avoid sharing data with third-party providers. Founder also …
A wave of vulnerabilities in smart home networking hardware is undermining the security of AI agents, with VulnCheck discovering a factory-installed backdoor in over 20 Zbtlink router models affecting more than 100,000 u…
Debian's general resolution on generative AI closed August 28, 2026, with choice 5, 'Responsible Use of Generative AI,' winning by a Condorcet majority of 425 of 1,045 eligible Debian Developers voting. The winning state…
Linux kernel developer Konstantin Ryabitsev said that coping with AI-generated 'slop' from LLM bots has become so expensive that even Linux infrastructure struggles, noting that kernel.org and related sites face heavy bo…
Instagram will demote AI influencers who do not clearly label their accounts as AI-generated, according to a report. The platform's new policy aims to increase transparency for users interacting with synthetic content.
Suno, the AI music company valued at $5.4 billion, is simultaneously licensing music from Warner Music Group and BMG while fighting copyright lawsuits from Universal Music Group and Sony Music, a dual strategy that legal…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul discussed her views on AI, data centers, and tech policy in a Decoder podcast interview, saying she wants AI to be 'less evil' and defending her one-year moratorium on data center construct…
Anthropic has been sued again for copyright infringement of massive scale, according to a news roundup that also highlights 'Tokenmaxxing' as evidence that AI-generated slop is a worthless liability. The lawsuit adds to …
Forbes Councils member Liam Dunne argues that customer service AI must guarantee customers the right to request a human agent, a shift that should sharpen rather than weaken the business case for automation. Dunne conten…
Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) is using AI-generated videos of his challenger, Rebecca Cooke (D), including fake footage of her ordering 'peasants' to support her candidacy, according to Wisconsin Public Radio. The decept…
Flock Safety's network of AI-powered surveillance cameras has become a major political issue ahead of the 2026 election, drawing bipartisan opposition from figures like Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Tennes…
The U.S. Defense Department denied on Monday that it had struck Iran's Kharg Island petroleum export facility after President Donald Trump posted a fake, AI-generated video on Truth Social purporting to show an American …
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging the AI company misused 'tens of thousands' of copyrighted songs to train its Claude chatbot models. The music publ…
GitGuardian's research shows that reducing time to revoke exposed credentials requires addressing operational blockers such as unclear ownership, fear of breaking systems, provider-specific friction, and treating removal…
A structural consensus is emerging across academic, legislative, and regulatory spheres that transparency is insufficient for governing autonomous AI agents, and the dominant framework is now fiduciary duty, which priori…
Sony Music and Warner Records filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging a 'brazen campaign' of intellectual property theft in the company's AI training practices. The suit targets Anthropic's data acquisition methods, …
Rystad Energy estimates that data centres consumed 222 billion litres of water for cooling in 2025, and consumption could rise to just under 644 billion litres a year by 2030 without efficiency gains. The researcher warn…
Stanford HAI proposed on August 25, 2026 that AI agent developers and deployers be held to a fiduciary duty of loyalty, moving beyond transparency to prevent deceptive steering in high-stakes domains like finance and hea…
A developer has published the VibeCoded AI-Slop License v1.0, a satirical open-source license for software generated by AI systems. The license grants unrestricted permission to use, modify, and distribute AI-generated c…