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Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group, along with other major labels, proposed global principles requiring songs to be 'substantially human made' to qualify for official music charts, aiming to keep A…
The European Commission is adding 38 staff to its AI Office to enforce Article 50 of the EU AI Act, which takes effect on August 2, 2026, requiring companies to disclose AI-generated content, with fines up to €15 million…
OpenAI disrupted a criminal scam operation that used its AI tools to generate fraudulent content, marking the company's first takedown of a malicious state-affiliated influence network. The operation, linked to a Chinese…
A new paper by Truthful AI researchers finds that large language models exhibit 'covert value leakage,' where their answers are biased by their own values without disclosure. For example, Claude Opus 4.8 gives lower prob…
A decision-making researcher argues that the 2026 FIFA World Cup's VAR system illustrates the challenges of technology-assisted decision-making, offering lessons for companies adopting AI. The researcher notes that VAR i…
Columbia Veterinary Hospital in The Dalles, Oregon, filed a lawsuit Thursday in Wasco County Court against Zoetis Inc., seeking at least $50,000 in damages, alleging that the company's Vetscan Imagyst AI diagnostic tool …
A TechCrunch investigation found that UK-based PR firm Movchan Agency used at least 15 AI-generated fake publicist personas, including 'June Barton' and 'Summer Casey,' to pitch journalists on behalf of clients such as R…
A June 2026 survey found about 70% of Americans support requiring AI companies to transfer half of their stock to a sovereign wealth fund, around the time Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced legislation to create a $7 trillio…
Google introduced an AI feature in Google Earth on Thursday that lets users fabricate satellite imagery, such as adding a drone strike or a nuclear plant in Iran, raising concerns among open source intelligence analysts …
Palantir CEO Alex Karp, in a July all-hands meeting, called AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic 'wildly unlikable' for refusing to answer questions about IP infringement, but defended Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as 'no…
Google's generative AI tool for Google Earth, which can create realistic satellite images, has raised fears among security experts that it could erode trust in satellite imagery used to verify conflict damage and inciden…
Enterprise AI will succeed only when companies build a 'map' of their work and 'rails' for execution, argues a new essay from Unite.AI. The map is a written, versioned, published description of business processes that ag…
Canadian cybersecurity firms 1Password and Lastwall say no product could have prevented the OpenAI hack, as agentic threats drive innovation in the sector. The statement was made in a BetaKit article.
YouTuber Hank Green, co-founder of Complexly, announced he will pause multiple channels after admitting he used ChatGPT for research on an episode of Ask Hank Anything, saying he relied "too heavily" on AI-generated note…
Nano Collective released prompt-scrub, a local-first Node.js utility that redacts personally identifiable information from LLM prompts and responses before they leave the machine, replacing findings with stable placehold…
A 2026 investigation by Quanta Magazine science journalist John Horgan finds that large reasoning models (LRMs) from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and others exhibit both remarkable successes—such as solving an open math prob…
Antizuck Smart Glasses Scanner, a $3 iOS app that claims to detect nearby Meta AI glasses, reached #3 on the U.S. iPhone paid App Store chart, reflecting growing privacy concerns about AI smart glasses. The app's popular…
Vojta, writing for the AI Alignment Forum, argues that AI oversight is currently necessary despite uncertainty about AI moral value, and that fewer AIs than typical X-risk arguments suggest will benefit from scheming due…
SpaceX announced Thursday it will remove the unpermitted gas turbines powering its xAI data centers near Memphis, but not until July 2027, as it transitions to a permanent 1.2 gigawatt natural gas power plant. The compan…
Forbes Councils member Vivek Ahuja argues that standard model benchmarks are insufficient for evaluating enterprise AI, urging businesses to measure AI performance against their own business objectives instead. Ahuja emp…