AI Ethics

One-third of employers are replacing entry-level jobs with AI, according to a new GMAC survey of over 600 recruiters worldwide, with technology and manufacturing roles most at risk. The trend threatens Gen Z's career pro…

The AI industry is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to influence US elections, according to a new project tracking political spending by AI and crypto companies. The effort, called Tech Influence Watch, is led by…

Arcium, a Solana-based confidential computing network, unveiled Blackthorn, an infrastructure layer that encrypts data on standard Nvidia GPUs using multi-party computation. The software-only upgrade expands the confiden…

Major tech companies including Anthropic, Meta, Google, Clearview AI, Apple, Amazon, and OpenAI have collectively paid or owe $3.5 billion in AI-related fines and settlements from 2022 to 2026, according to a Surfshark a…

The AI data center boom is driving a third wave of inflation, increasing consumer prices through surging demand for semiconductors and components, with wholesale electronic components up 27% year-over-year. Analysts warn…

A broad tech selloff on Wall Street, driven by investor skepticism over AI spending profitability, dragged Bitcoin to $58K and pushed the Crypto Fear & Greed Index to 13, signaling extreme fear. The Nasdaq fell 2% and th…

Stripe built a production-grade AI agent system on Amazon Bedrock that reduced financial compliance review handling time by 26% while maintaining human oversight. The system processes $1.4 trillion in annual payment volu…

At the Cannes Lions advertising festival, human creativity took center stage over AI, with marketers expressing more grounded views on AI's limitations. Havas research found 84% of brands suffer consumer indifference, wh…

PauseAI, an organization building a civic and social movement for existential AI safety, argues that its approach is a high-value, neglected intervention to reduce catastrophic risks from AI. With a presence in over 15 c…

The Saline Township board in Michigan approved a $16 billion data center for Oracle and OpenAI after being sued by developer Related Digital, which claimed exclusionary zoning. The 1.4-gigawatt facility, part of the Star…

At the Cannes Lions festival, executives from Deloitte, AWS, and Sony Pictures Entertainment urged media and entertainment leaders to embrace AI by tackling hard problems, upskilling employees, and rethinking workflows. …

California launched the nation's first AI-Unemployment Tracker (CAIT) to monitor AI-related job loss in real time. Early data shows no mass layoffs statewide, but elevated claims among college-educated workers in the Bay…

A designer argues that AI is a hype-driven pyramid scheme and advocates for human-centered design, emphasizing that billions of human alternatives exist and that bypassing human input erases people from systems.

Anthropic took its Mythos-class models offline after a Friday evening ultimatum from the Trump administration, and the models have remained inaccessible for 14 days. The takedown followed an Amazon research team document…

Anthropic's Mythos-class AI models remain offline two weeks after a Trump administration export control order, with no resolution in sight. The standoff stems from security concerns over potential misuse by foreign natio…

A developer reflects on the cognitive cost of over-reliance on AI tools, inspired by the KAPRO paper (arXiv:2606.20661) which found that AI models often reflexively use external tools even when they already know the answ…

A Tallinn court fined plaintiffs €150 and €50 each for submitting false academic references generated by AI in a legal filing challenging a logging permit. The court found the cited researchers and studies do not exist, …

An Estonian court fined 10 plaintiffs for submitting false academic references generated by artificial intelligence in a legal challenge to a logging permit. The Tallinn Administrative Court imposed fines of €150 on one …

A user submitted a fake AI-generated article to Hacker News, which was flagged after detection. Testing local AI detectors on a 2013 Paul Graham essay showed it was rated as more likely AI-generated than the actual fake …

California launched the first-in-the-nation AI-Unemployment Tracker (CAIT) to monitor AI-related job loss, finding no evidence of large-scale displacement despite predictions from tech CEOs. The dashboard, built by the C…