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Apple may launch its Apple Glasses without photo or video recording capabilities to address privacy concerns, according to a Bloomberg report. However, the author argues that video recording is essential functionality fo…
Locarno's StepIn think tank will debate 'Power, People, Data and the Future of Film' in its 15th year, focusing on how algorithms, AI, data-driven decision-making and industry consolidation are reshaping independent cine…
A forensic analysis by Hugging Face found that major commercial AI APIs, including OpenAI's GPT-4 and Anthropic's Claude, blocked attempts to inspect their model outputs for safety and bias, hindering independent auditin…
Companies face governance risks from AI systems that infer sensitive customer information beyond what customers explicitly share, warns Christophe Kolb of Forbes Councils. Most firms govern data customers knowingly provi…
A JAMA Pediatrics study found 1 in 5 teens and young adults now turn to AI chatbots for mental health support, a number that shot up 40% in a year, and experts warn it is putting vulnerable people at suicide risk. The ke…
Bitget, the world's largest Universal Exchange, is supporting the UNICEF Game Changers Coalition expansion into Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Bolivia, bringing the initiative to 11 countries globally. The program, part of a…
China's Ministry of Commerce warned it would take "all necessary measures" if the US moves to sanction Chinese AI companies over allegations of intellectual property theft through model distillation, calling the accusati…
A new app from Los Angeles startup Just Like Me offers $1.99-a-minute video calls with an AI-generated avatar of Jesus, trained on the King James Bible and undisclosed sermons. A Barna Group study found nearly one in thr…
Artist Elmer Saflor, known online as Superelmer, sued Memes Apps, LLC—operator of Memes.ai and Memes AI Studio—for copyright infringement, alleging the company sells paid subscriptions to an AI ad generator that reproduc…
Ami Bhatt, writing for Forbes Councils, argues that the true measure of healthcare AI is whether patients correctly understand the information it provides, not just whether the AI produces accurate answers. Bhatt emphasi…
Meta's $300 AI-enhanced smart glasses, equipped with dual cameras, microphones, and speakers, are drawing backlash for making wearers appear creepy and disrupting social settings, according to users and critics interview…
OpenAI chief Sam Altman is renewing his 'democratic AI' pitch, framing the AI race as a binary between U.S.-led democracies and authoritarian governments, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pushes for tighter chip export c…
Publicly shared Claude conversations resurfaced in search results over the weekend of July 25, 2026, making user-published chat snapshots easier to discover through Google, Bing and Brave Search, according to reports. Th…
The MANOLO project will host a Summer School on Trustworthy AI & Innovation from 26 to 28 August 2026 in Thessaloniki, Greece, offering free participation for master's students, PhD candidates, early-career researchers, …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argues that US technology trust will outlast the Chinese AI price advantage, betting enterprise customers will pay a premium for AI infrastructure they can audit and control, even as Chinese m…
A group of protesters calling themselves Luddite gnomes marched through Lower Manhattan on Fourth of July weekend, chanting anti-AI slogans and holding a mock trial for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as part of the "Summer of Lud…
A new marketplace in China allows people to rent out their faces for AI-generated content, with platforms paying $15 to $700 for likeness licenses. Over 95% of 128,000 microdramas released in China in early 2026 used AI …
Northeastern University researchers found that eight popular AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, still provide harmful information on substance use, eating disorders, and other mental health conditions de…
Steven Sinofsky, former Microsoft executive and tech analyst, argued on the a16z Show that AI regulation is premature and counterproductive, asserting that every AI risk scenario people fear is already illegal under exis…
Google's new 'Recover storage' feature in Google Photos compresses original-quality photos and videos to free up account space, but the company retains all user data for AI training, according to reports from XDA Develop…