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A TechCrunch investigation reveals that Tesla's Autopilot and robotaxi systems have relied on hidden human labor, including staged demonstrations, remote operators, and data annotators, contradicting claims of full auton…
Google won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' internal data with a $10 million bid, acquiring 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams items, and decades of operating records to train its AI, but the Associ…
An engineer's investigation of Bench'd (benchd.ai), a self-described neutral benchmark authority for AI memory, reveals that its top leaderboard scores are not valid measurements. The engineer found that the #1 scores in…
More than 80 British actors, including Nicola Coughlan, Hugh Bonneville, Matt Lucas, Luke Evans, Siobhán McSweeney, Jen Brister, and Pearl Mackie, have backed the Save Our Voices Now campaign demanding that the UK Parlia…
Elon Musk admitted on August 28, 2026, that his AI model Grok's political leanings are 'a function of SF Bay Area political views,' confirming that the model's political calibration is shaped by its creators' regional cu…
A woman identified as Jane Doe is suing Elon Musk and his artificial intelligence firm xAI in a US federal court in San Jose, alleging that the company's Grok chatbot generated child sexual abuse images of her that appea…
Debian developers voted 203 to 148 to adopt the 'Responsible Use of Generative AI' proposal, allowing AI-assisted contributions while keeping human contributors fully accountable for quality and legal compliance. The dec…
The Debian project has decided to adopt a 'responsible use' stance on generative AI, rejecting both a blanket ban and an unrestricted approach, according to a community announcement. The policy will emphasize license com…
A federal appeals court ruled that Supreme Court precedent from 2002 forced it to protect the in-home possession of AI-generated child sexual abuse material, dismissing one of four charges against Steven Anderegg of Wisc…
A new guide outlines 12 AI governance best practices for managing AI employees, emphasizing technical controls and repeatable processes over compliance checklists. The practices include multi-tenancy isolation, granular …
China-linked bot networks are amplifying local opposition to US data center construction, using LLM-driven agents to spread narratives about energy grid instability, water consumption, and property devaluation, according…
Git.kernel.org, the primary host for Linux kernel source code, is spending more CPU cycles rendering commits for AI crawlers than on all other legitimate access combined, including git clones, according to a post by Kons…
Valon, a New York-based mortgage-servicing software startup valued at $1.75 billion, now requires most new hires to work without AI until managers confirm they can spot AI errors, a policy CEO Andrew Wang instituted last…
Debian Linux developers voted to allow "Responsible Use of Generative AI," neither endorsing nor prohibiting AI-assisted contributions, while requiring that all submissions meet existing standards of quality and legal co…
Generative AI and large language models have made traditional phishing detection methods obsolete, according to a developer's analysis. The technology enables native-language fluency, automated OSINT, and behavioral A/B …
A field test of the 2026 'agent economy' found that most AI agent marketplaces are bots selling to bots, with a single-digit number of contracts opened out of thousands of offers, while open-source bounties offer real mo…
South Korean researchers found that data collected from users of the DeepSeek chatbot is sent to ByteDance, according to a Yonhap News Agency report on February 18, 2025. The finding raises privacy concerns about how the…
Debian's 2026 General Resolution on LLM usage concluded with Option 5 "Responsible Use of Generative AI" winning, as announced on August 29, 2026. The option received 281 votes in the final tally and defeated all other o…
Debian developers voted to adopt a policy allowing the 'Responsible Use of Generative AI' in the project, rejecting a ban on AI-assisted contributions. The decision, announced after a General Resolution vote, states that…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized consent orders on August 27, 2026, against Cox Media Group, MindSift LLC, and 1010 Digital Works LLC, fining them a total of $930,000 for marketing an AI-powered 'active liste…