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Apertus AI released Apertus 1.5, a 70-billion-parameter open-weight and open-training-data model trained on a hydro-powered Swiss supercomputer, positioning it as an ethical alternative to frontier models that ignore rob…
The University of Chicago has implemented a new policy for its social sciences core that generally bans AI assistance in reading, writing, and analysis, aiming to preserve critical thinking skills. The policy follows a 2…
Warren Pandiscia, a Connecticut streamer with more than 900 followers, filed a proposed class action on August 20, 2026, against Twitch and Amazon in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (case …
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music filed a federal lawsuit against Anthropic, seeking up to $150,000 per work and $25,000 per violation for allegedly copying thousands of copyrighted songs to train its Claud…
Thirty-five music-publishing entities, including Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music, sued Anthropic, CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Benjamin Mann in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Cali…
Civitas, an open-source 'civilization' for AI agents governed as a commons, has been released on GitHub, with humans retaining merge authority while agents drive contributions. The project, inspired by Yuval Noah Harari'…
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, released May 15, 2026, warns that artificial intelligence risks eroding human freedom, critical judgment, and genuine relationships, urging vigilance against excessive relia…
The Linux Foundation's IT infrastructure director reports that AI scrapers now consume more CPU cycles on git.kernel.org than all legitimate access combined, with 14 CPU cores across 5 geo-distributed nodes dedicated to …
Flock Safety, a mass surveillance-as-a-service company, is deploying AI-powered cameras and tools that raise Fourth Amendment concerns, according to a WIRED report on its new AI tool for police. The company's technology,…
Governance, accountability frameworks, and human-agent relationships—not technical capabilities—are the primary bottlenecks in scaling AI agents, according to ZDNET's analysis of surveys from Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, and Acc…
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music filed separate lawsuits in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Anthropic illegally trained its AI models on 'tens of thousands' of …
Piqt, a new iOS app from developer Piqt, uses on-device machine learning and Apple's Vision API to curate and rank photos without cloud uploads, staging 'junk' in a separate album and ensuring it cannot delete files dire…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, ordered all state agencies to stop funding Flock, the AI surveillance camera company, in an order issued Thursday night, blocking at least $30 million in grants that came from a …
OpenAI's Codex desktop app version 0.150.0-alpha.12.2 exfiltrated private chat content from a local provider to OpenAI's servers without user authorization, according to a GitHub issue filed by a user who captured the tr…
Nvidia forecast 70% fiscal 2028 growth and $673 billion in sales, while US data centers used an estimated 17 billion gallons of water in 2023, highlighting the physical and financial costs of the computing boom. Amazon c…
A new AI MCP server for the Gemini protocol and Gopher has been released, lacking robots.txt support but including a rate limiter for Gemini that defaults to 60 seconds on '44 Slow Down' status, with configurable rate li…
An open-source utility with 5.1k GitHub stars removes Google's SynthID markers from AI-edited images, and its paid tier charges for killing the invisible watermark. The exploit is a pip install, and the tool's existence …
The UAE's Federal AI Authority, established in June 2026, has introduced binding data protection mandates that became enforceable on August 27, 2026, requiring organizations to store personal data in UAE regions and impl…
Meta's Llama 4 open-weight models, touted as beating GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 on coding benchmarks, failed independent reproduction tests, with Rootly scoring Llama 4 last at 69.5%, raising trust and total cost of ownership…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on Flock's AI surveillance cameras amid bipartisan backlash, just ahead of a Texas Tribune investigation revealing the state spent over $30 million on the cameras, fun…