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Meta told Brazil's electoral court on Tuesday that it has completed implementing measures to give President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and opposition candidate Flávio Bolsonaro equal treatment on its platforms ahead of th…
Ofcom chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes told the UK Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee on October 20 that the regulator may never recover fines from companies based outside the UK, saying "there wi…
Ai2 researchers led by Pardis Sadat Zahraei, a computer science doctoral student who built FairStress during a 2026 research internship at Ai2, tested 15 language models to see whether matched persuasive prompts change d…
Between October 13 and October 16, 2026, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citi, Schwab and Wells Fargo moved to restrict third-party AI agents from accessing customer accounts, with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon telling the b…
The Japan Actors Union announced new guidelines requiring prior consent at "every stage" of generative AI use, including before training models on an actor's performance, and treating any AI-replicated performance as a n…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 947, the No Robo Bosses Act, which bars employers from relying solely on automated decision systems to discipline or fire workers starting July 1, 2027, requiring other evidence suc…
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) released FairStress, a benchmark of 300 realistic two-candidate decision scenarios across 29 domains, including hiring, healthcare, lending, education, housing, and criminal justice, to m…
WhatsApp removed 102 hidden HTML instruction blocks from its help pages on October 18, hours after WIRED asked about them, after a privacy firm's October scrape found text directing the company's AI chatbot to avoid ment…
Meta's proposed commercial terms, slated to take effect October 30, shift liability for errors made by its AI models onto enterprise customers, who would be "solely responsible for and assume any and all risks associated…
A paper posted to arXiv on 23 September 2026 by Mattea Sim of Georgetown University, Yael Eiger of the University of Washington and Tadayoshi Kohno of Georgetown found that 19 of 20 AI-generated summaries of a 25-second …
A new study posted to arXiv (2610.23668) found that probability scores accompanying an AI system's permitted answer can leak a hidden cause that was deliberately excluded from the output, with testers recovering the conc…
A paper submitted to arXiv on 12 October 2026 introduces qtBench, a benchmark of 29 open problems in algebraic combinatorics that ask for simple combinatorial algorithms explaining given polynomial coefficients or identi…
Meta removed the word "train" from the crawling clause of its new Commercial Terms, which take effect Oct. 30, while keeping permission to crawl websites associated with a business's products or services, Nieman Lab repo…
A series of randomized controlled trials on human-AI interactions (N=1,222) found that AI assistance improves short-term task performance but causes reduced persistence and worse unassisted performance, according to an a…
Developer collective Greyland-Fireworks released version v1.01 of the audhd-ui-guide on October 19, 2026, an open-source toolkit for building interfaces that are easier for people with AuDHD (autism and ADHD) to understa…
Airlines, banks, and retailers are increasingly blocking third-party AI agents from booking, shopping, and accessing accounts, with Yelp requiring paid data licensing agreements and Delta, United, JPMorgan Chase, and Cha…
Anthropic added AI rights provisions to its usage policy, while Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman called model welfare a safety risk and 12 states are drafting bans on the concept, according to a Forbes Innovation report…
A Texas man, Charles Brownlee, has asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn his armed robbery conviction and 60-year prison sentence, arguing that police violated the Fourth Amendment by using Flock Safety…
UKIE has partnered with law firm Sheridans to launch an AI Compliance and Accreditation Service, a four-step process culminating in a UKIE Certification Mark that UK studios can display during pitches and funding rounds.…
A new arXiv paper (2610.22545v1) finds that large language models do not reliably account for cultural context when detecting culture-specific stereotypes and overpredict stereotype presence across US, Dutch and Chinese …