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USC researcher Ruishan Liu has launched a three-year, nearly $900,000 National Science Foundation-funded project to build a traceable, cost-aware AI framework for medical data curation, aiming to automate the detection a…
ICE has collected DNA from nearly 1 million people this year, including young children, and fed the samples into an FBI criminal database indefinitely, according to a WIRED investigation discussed on the Uncanny Valley p…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a preliminary injunction against Perplexity AI in Amazon.com Services, LLC v. Perplexity AI, Inc., ruling that Amazon is unlikely to succeed on its Computer Fraud and Abuse Act …
Andrew Chen, a prominent tech investor and writer, observed that his AI agents generate an ever-growing pile of outputs for him to review, highlighting a structural problem where judgment is conserved and review scales w…
California lawmakers are advancing Senate Bill 903, introduced by Sen. Steve Padilla, which would ban advertising chatbots as therapy and require licensed professional review of AI therapeutic decisions, amid wrongful de…
Tom Wilkinson, chief data officer for the Scottish Government, said AI has come to dominate his role since he took office in January 2023, but a new AI strategy for 2026 to 2031, published in March, narrows his remit to …
Proton AG warns that AI voice cloning is making vishing attacks harder to detect, urging businesses to adopt verification procedures that do not rely on voice familiarity. The company highlights risks including fraudulen…
A blog post argues that accusations of AI use have become a 'purity test' that dismisses work without considering effort or quality, conflating lazy AI usage with thoughtful human editing. The author, who is about 60% co…
AI note-taking app maker Granola is accused in a proposed class action filed July 30 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California of violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act by recording con…
UMG Recordings has asked a court to dismiss the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada's complaint, arguing that the musicians' claims for compensation from AI company settlements are barred by …
Google's 2025 DORA research found that 90 percent of organizations now use an internal platform, and 76 percent have dedicated platform teams, but these platforms were built for a different era and are being exposed by A…
A higher education commentator warns that six AI-related trends, including the investment bubble bursting, token-based pricing, AI wearables growth, declining prompting, student coding agents, and unhealthy AI attachment…
Google's 2025 DORA research found that 90 percent of organizations now use an internal platform and 76 percent have dedicated platform teams, but these platforms are ill-equipped for AI-driven demands such as GPU provisi…
Byrne Hobart's August 6, 2026 edition of The Diff examines the political dynamics of visible versus invisible AI, arguing that the most consequential AI systems operate behind the scenes, shaping decisions without public…
The OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications for 2026, published by OWASP's Agentic Security Initiative on December 9, 2025, identifies the top security risks for autonomous AI agents, including Agent Goal Hijack and Tool M…
It's FOSS reports that Greg Kroah-Hartman has banned AI-generated patches from the drivers/staging area of the Linux kernel, while allowing them elsewhere, and GNOME has published a guide for bots to reduce AI-generated …
A developer highlights concerns about the AI industry's use of off-balance-sheet financing, comparing it to Enron's accounting practices. Meta and Alphabet have used variable interest entities to fund data center constru…
Reddit's revamped AI moderation tools erroneously removed dozens of comments and posts dating back 10 years from the r/AskHistorians community in April, according to moderators, who believe the tools mistakenly flagged c…
A parasitic outbreak linked to salad has spread across 47 states, and the Trump administration's response has been criticized as inadequate, with the CDC's FoodNet surveillance system deemed ineffective for detecting the…
AI-linked stocks across Asia cratered on Thursday, with South Korea's KOSPI plunging 4% and Japan's Nikkei falling 1.6%, as Wall Street's overnight losses rekindled fears that massive AI spending may not deliver proporti…