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A federal judge in Illinois on June 4 denied MAC Cosmetics' motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit alleging its AI-powered virtual try-on tool collected consumer biometric data without proper consent or disclosures, al…
CREST opened applications on July 28 for accreditation of AI-enabled cybersecurity services, backed by a new responsible-AI domain in its company requirements and an AI-enabled penetration-testing annex. The additions le…
Professionals should focus on clear business goals, data quality, simple models, careful validation, realistic costs, and human judgment rather than chasing the latest technology, according to Iavor I. Bojinov, Associate…
Roopika Risam, a Dartmouth professor, argues in her new book "Data Empire" that data collection has always been about power, tracing it from Ice Age cave markings to modern AI systems. Her research, supported by over $4.…
Codeberg e.V., a German nonprofit open-source hosting platform often called the EU alternative to GitHub, voted to ban projects related to cryptocurrency and large language models (LLMs), including those created or heavi…
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet is widely regarded as a top-tier coding assistant, but developers are increasingly frustrated by the company's restrictive safety measures and excessive moralizing, which they say undermines…
Hong Kong police recorded 150 WhatsApp account hijacking cases in the past two weeks, with total losses exceeding HK$26 million (US$3.31 million), including one victim scammed out of HK$10 million by fraudsters impersona…
Starting Sunday, the EU will require tech companies to label AI-generated content that impersonates people or real events under the AI Act, with fines for non-compliance. The rules target deepfakes designed to deceive, e…
The nonprofit Partnership on AI will publish voluntary disclosure guidance on Wednesday to help companies tell investors how they manage AI risks and opportunities, as lawmakers debate a federal 'AI Kill Switch' after an…
OpenAI published a report on GPT-5's role in scientific research, emphasizing that human judgment, validation, and attribution remain central to AI-assisted work. The report, created with collaborators from multiple inst…
The real risk of AI in law firms is not lawyers who study the tools but associates who secretly use free chatbots on client data without oversight, according to a Georgia commercial litigator writing in a legal publicati…
China's Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has drafted a law targeting AI-enabled cyberbullying, mandating real-time monitoring and removal of deepfakes and AI-generated harassment, with fines up to 200,000 yuan ($…
The University of Edinburgh's Department of Philosophy has adopted a default policy prohibiting the use of AI in all assessed coursework, including essays, dissertations, and take-home exams, to preserve original thought…
Enterprise AI deployments are stalling not because of model capability but due to a 'last mile' problem in human adoption, according to a neuroscience-informed analysis. IBM recently faced a shareholder proposal demandin…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned against banning Chinese AI models from the US market in a Financial Times interview on July 28, arguing such restrictions enable regulatory capture by dominant labs like OpenAI and Google …
A growing number of writers are deliberately breaking rules of clean prose—using more typos, fewer em dashes, and intentional grammatical errors—to signal human authorship, according to a Wired article published July 28.…
André Dias Moreira Prol argues that autonomous AI agents represent the most significant operational change since cloud computing, enabling software to reason, plan, and act independently. He notes that by 2028, Gartner p…
A developer with experience building AI-powered products warns that most LLM pipelines leak personally identifiable information (PII) by default, creating legal and reputational liabilities. The article outlines five cor…
A blog post argues that the AI industry is heading for a crash due to unsustainable capital expenses, circular revenues, huge debt, public pushback, increasing corporate skepticism, diseconomies of scale, and institution…
Serhii Korniienko released Bullshit Detector, a set of open-source agent skills that fact-check viral YouTube videos, articles, tweets, and PDFs by producing a claim-by-claim verification report with sources and a BS sco…