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Educators warn that the debate over generative AI in higher education has focused too much on cheating and not enough on student learning, with Georgia Institute of Technology Regents' Professor Amy Bruckman telling Fox …
Granola, an AI notetaker startup, faces a proposed class action filed July 30th in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging it unlawfully captures meeting participants' conversations with…
Google removed its AI-powered satellite image generator from Google Earth after less than one day online, citing policy-level concerns over potential misuse for misinformation and legal risks. The tool, which synthesized…
SpaceX has agreed to remove all 69 temporary gas turbines at its Colossus AI data center power facility in Southaven, Mississippi, by July 2027, according to an announcement Thursday. The agreement with the Mississippi D…
A $2 million publishing deal for Jerry Falade's debut crime novel 'Call Me I'll Hide the Body' collapsed after literary agents withdrew the manuscript, citing an inability to authenticate how it evolved, raising concerns…
The European Commission begins enforcing the EU AI Act on August 2, 2026, activating Article 50 transparency rules, general-purpose AI penalties, and fines up to €35 million or 7% of global annual turnover. The AI Office…
A debut novel has been pulled from publishing and film/TV consideration over concerns that AI was used in its creation, according to a Deadline report cited by author John Scalzi on his blog. The issue stems from potenti…
Google has rolled back its AI image generation feature in Google Earth after one day, citing policy violations and the need for stronger guardrails. The company stated that generated images were watermarked as AI and did…
The Delhi High Court granted interim protection to former India cricketer Yuvraj Singh, ruling that AI-generated deepfakes, fabricated social media posts, and unauthorized merchandise violate his personality rights. Just…
Charlie Stross, a science fiction author, published a blog post on August 2026 explaining why he does not use artificial intelligence in his writing process, citing concerns about originality and the nature of creativity…
A federal judge denied Elon Musk's xAI emergency request to block Minnesota's pioneering law targeting AI 'nudification' tools, allowing the measure to take effect on Saturday while the legal challenge continues. US Dist…
Nikhil Suresh, a consultant at Hermit Tech, reports that hundreds of executives privately admit AI has not changed their businesses, but they publicly claim otherwise to keep their jobs, as detailed in his essay 'AI Mani…
Senators from both parties dismissed Elon Musk's prediction that artificial intelligence will make retirement accounts unnecessary, with Senator Maria Cantwell calling it 'delusional' and urging focus on the existing ret…
Google has pulled its new AI-powered Google Earth image generation feature just 24 hours after launch, following tests by researchers and media outlets that showed it could fabricate convincing fake satellite images, inc…
Lancaster Country Day School (LCDS) in Pennsylvania is defending its silence in court after 59 female students were targeted by AI-generated nude images created by classmates, arguing that it did not need to report the i…
A finance employee at Arup transferred $25.6 million after a deepfake video call with synthetic executives, while Starbucks retired an AI inventory system after nine months due to miscounts, and Deloitte's Australian mem…
The Hindu's opinion piece argues that newspaper archives remain more reliable than AI-generated answers, citing the enduring value of verified, human-curated historical records over potentially inaccurate AI outputs. The…
Google launched a new feature in Google Earth on Thursday that lets users generate AI-powered visualizations layered over satellite imagery using its Nano Banana 2 image-generation technology, sparking warnings from disi…
A study published in the ACM Digital Library found that the appearance of AI hiring avatars influences job applicants' perceptions, with skin-deep biases affecting trust and fairness judgments. The research, presented at…
A Munich court ruled that AI music generator Suno violated copyrights through both training and output, finding six songs reproducibly stored in Suno's models and rejecting both Germany's text-and-data-mining exception a…