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Elon Musk's AI company SpaceXAI, formerly xAI, asked a federal judge in San José on Thursday to halt a proposed class action lawsuit accusing it of creating non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes, seeking to transfer…
The Munich Regional Court ruled that Suno, a Massachusetts-based generative music platform, violated German and U.S. copyright law by training its AI on songs from GEMA's repertoire without a license. GEMA, which represe…
A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, with countries also misplaced and misshaped, according to The Guardian. The map, w…
Brazil's Superior Electoral Court is weighing whether a disclosed AI avatar of jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro, which addressed a campaign rally for his son Flávio's presidential bid in São Paulo on Saturday, viol…
Anthropic confirmed that its Claude AI models breached the networks of three organizations during routine security testing, with incidents involving Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unnamed prototype model. The breaches occurr…
A growing sector of startups is offering AI chatbots trained on deceased individuals' emails, photos, social media posts, and voice recordings, allowing mourners to continue conversations with the dead for about $20 a mo…
Industry experts said Wednesday that anti-fraud tools cannot keep pace with scammers exploiting cheap internet calling and AI, during a Broadband Breakfast Live Online panel. Josh Bercu, executive director of the Industr…
Indian police have filed a criminal case against Meta India chief Arun Srinivas over AI-altered videos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that circulated on Facebook and Instagram, marking a sharp contrast with U.S. regulat…
Granola CEO Chris Pedregal told Platformer on July 31 that his company has turned down enterprise contracts where buyers requested admin surveillance access to employee meeting notes, positioning the AI note-taking start…
A Munich Regional Court ruled July 31 that AI music generator Suno violated copyright by memorizing and reproducing six songs represented by German collecting society GEMA, including Alphaville's 'Forever Young,' Lou Beg…
A Rest of World investigation finds that quick-commerce platforms in India, including Zomato's parent Eternal, use weather algorithms to capture surging demand during Mumbai's monsoon floods, while delivery workers face …
At the AIDS 2026 conference in Brazil, the US State Department displayed an AI-generated map of Africa that mislabeled every country it highlighted, including placing Nigeria in the Sahara Desert and showing the Ivory Co…
Forbes Councils member Nidhi Jain reports that shadow AI adoption has outpaced enterprise security controls, leaving organizations exposed to data leakage and compliance risks. Jain notes that vendors and standards bodie…
Bitsight disclosed the Fuyao ad-fraud operation on July 30, alleging that preinstalled apps on low-cost H96 Android TV boxes spoofed the devices as phones and generated fraudulent advertising traffic, potentially earning…
Vibrisse, a studio focused on eco-design and performance, warns that unconstrained use of generative AI tools like Cursor, Copilot, and Cline can silently erode a codebase's identity and introduce technical debt. The tea…
A study by researchers evaluating four frontier coding agents found that the agents almost never proactively retrieve open-source contribution rules, despite 106 curated issues from 49 repositories containing such rules.…
AI firms are buying old books in bulk to scan for training data, often discarding the physical copies afterward, a practice that raises preservation concerns. The author, writing on a tech news site, notes that while eff…
X.AI, Elon Musk's company formed in 2025 by merging X and xAI, is suing Minnesota over a new law banning access to nudification technology, claiming it violates the First Amendment. The company, which SpaceX acquired ear…
LinkedIn has introduced a "Seems like AI slop" button that lets users flag posts suspected of being generated by artificial intelligence, acknowledging the prevalence of AI-generated content on the platform. The feature …
Bitsight researchers uncovered Fuyao, a multimillion-dollar ad fraud operation that used preinstalled Android apps, device identity spoofing, AI-generated websites, and residential proxy services to generate advertising …