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According to the 2026 WebAIM Million report, 95.9% of the top one million website homepages have detectable accessibility failures, with an average of 56.1 errors per page and a 10.1% increase in errors over the prior ye…
A new analysis from veterinary practice settings warns that AI tools adopted for administrative tasks such as documentation and client communication carry governance risks that formal enterprise frameworks often miss, be…
Haskell Foundation (HF) is collecting common legal questions about large language models (LLMs) to present to a legal expert, focusing on EU and US frameworks, with the goal of publishing answers to help maintainers asse…
A developer spent a year optimizing the wrong bottleneck in AI-assisted software development, finding that removing humans from the pipeline shifted the bottleneck to code review and integration. Telemetry from Faros AI …
Hyderabad cybercrime police have registered a criminal case against Meta's India chief Arun Srinivas over AI-altered videos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that circulated on Facebook and Instagram, escalating friction b…
The Munich Regional Court ruled on 31 July that Suno, a Massachusetts-based AI music generator valued at around $5.4bn, infringed copyright by training on songs represented by GEMA, Germany's state-mandated licensing bod…
Samsung Electronics has revealed that its upcoming Android XR smart glasses will include a bystander-facing LED indicator, an inner LED, wear detection, and a thwart detection feature to prevent unauthorized recording, a…
The Center on Long-Term Risk (CLR) announced its mission to address worst-case risks from advanced AI, focusing on harmful propensities in AI systems and cooperation failures between such systems. The organization conduc…
Ecolab CEO Christophe Beck said the 103-year-old company has spent $7 billion in the last six months, including a $4.75 billion acquisition of Calgary liquid-cooling company CoolIT, to make AI data centers 'water-neutral…
OpenAI has endorsed the European Union's General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice and the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, aligning its safety and transparency practices with the EU AI Act's ne…
Bert Hubert, a Dutch technology expert, warned in presentations to the Dutch Network of Government Service Providers and the Dutch Advisory Council for Science, Technology and Innovation that organizations are rushing to…
A German court ruled on July 31, 2026, that AI music company Suno infringed copyright by using copyrighted lyrics to train its models, in a case brought by German music publisher GEMA. The court ordered Suno to stop usin…
LinkedIn has added a 'seems like AI slop' reporting button to its feed, announced Thursday by chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, as part of a broader effort to reduce low-quality automated content. The feature accomp…
Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027, and a developer argues the root cause is inadequate risk controls, not model quality or ROI. The post highlights that generation-side failures, w…
Coinkite, the maker of Coldcard hardware wallets, reported that a build error caused seeds to be drawn from a software fallback instead of the hardware generator, leading to an estimated loss of 594 BTC (about $38 millio…
In Roseville, California, Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate readers misread license plates in 71% of the 1,427 alerts sent to police in 2023 and 2024, according to an analysis by the Roseville Police Department. Th…
Singapore's Singapore Institute of Directors (SID) launched the AI Guide for Boards in Singapore on Friday (Jul 31) at its inaugural SID Digital & Tech Forum, aiming to elevate fiduciary literacy of board members and shi…
OpenAI outlined its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices to support responsible AI governance in Europe, as the EU AI Act advances. The company emphasized its ongoing commitment to aligning with evolv…
Elon Musk pledged that SpaceXAI will preserve rare books by scanning them non-destructively, responding to reports that AI developers buy and destroy printed books, including rare editions, to speed up training data digi…
Setting For Me, an open-source, local-first AI 'Device Doctor' for older Android smartphones, aims to extend device lifespans by letting users describe issues in plain language and applying pre-validated actions without …