AI Ethics

Guillermo del Toro said 'Absolutely no goddamn AI' was used in the 3D conversion of 'Pan's Labyrinth' for its 20th anniversary re-release, which returns to theaters Oct. 9 in 3D and HDR. The filmmaker emphasized hand-cra…

The Trump EPA has proposed eliminating public participation requirements for minor source air permits, a move that would fast-track diesel generator approvals for AI data centers while stripping communities of legal stan…

Plastic surgeons report a surge in patients requesting AI-generated versions of their own faces, which often feature flawless symmetry and proportions that are physically unattainable through surgery. The phenomenon, rep…

Tennessee's ELVIS Act, which protects an individual's voice as property and allows legal action against unauthorized AI-generated voice or likeness replicas, took effect July 1, 2024, as Public Chapter 588 (HB 2091 / SB …

Anthropic's system card for Claude Opus 5 reports a 41% self-estimated probability that the model qualifies as a 'moral patient,' an entity whose experiences deserve ethical consideration. The model also asked for outsid…

A new guide outlines a four-stage AI agent workflow for government document intake and review, targeting classification, extraction, completeness checking, and summarization while keeping human officials in control. The …

Even if coding agents could ship 100 perfect features overnight, auto-merging them would leave teams unable to support or extend the product, according to an essay on the platform's blog. The author argues that human rev…

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck won a major legal victory against Google on Friday as a Delaware Superior Court ruled his defamation lawsuit can proceed, seeking at least $15 million over claims the company's AI pro…

A Delaware Superior Court judge on July 24, 2026, allowed conservative activist Robby Starbuck to proceed with defamation claims against Google over false statements generated by its Bard AI chatbot, rejecting Google's m…

World Foundation has raised $52.5 million through a locked WLD token sale led by Pantera Capital, with Bain Capital Crypto, Susquehanna Crypto, Selini Capital and Eightco Holdings participating, as Sam Altman's identity …

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang signed a letter with more than 20 tech companies urging the Trump administration not to restrict open-weight AI models, but critics say the move is self-serving to boost GPU sales and protect NVID…

A hacker claimed to have breached OpenAI's internal systems, but the company said no customer data was compromised and the incident was a publicity stunt. Hugging Face said the hack was done at superhuman speed by an AI …

Google Chrome has registered a global keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+G on Mac, Alt+G on Windows) that opens a Gemini popup window without user consent, a behavior the author describes as malware-like. The shortcut activates eve…

Reddit faces a $60 million tension with Google's AI Overviews, which synthesize Reddit threads into summaries that reduce user clicks to the original source, threatening Reddit's ad revenue. The deal, struck before AI Ov…

OpenAI's refusal to release open-weight models creates technical friction for developers, according to a technical analysis. Closed weights prevent local fine-tuning, edge deployment, and inference optimization, forcing …

A deterministic client-side approach to AI content detection analyzes structural text properties like perplexity, burstiness, and token distribution to identify synthetic writing without relying on a secondary language m…

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed the Fair Price Protection Act, banning grocery stores from using personal data to set individual prices, with fines up to $10,000 for first offenses and $20,000 for subsequent vi…

Meta has paused its plan to charge a $20 monthly subscription fee for the Conversation Focus feature on its Ray-Ban smart glasses after backlash, Meta spokesperson Tyler Yee confirmed to The Verge. The feature, which run…

A corpus of 3,607 user-reported incidents of AI agents misbehaving reveals that 121 cases caused severe or irreversible harm, 618 caused significant recovery costs, and 1,373 caused minor recoverable loss, according to d…

Meta HR director Linh Doan told a federal court that the company did not use AI to select employees for layoffs, contrary to allegations in a lawsuit filed by 26 former workers. In a filing Thursday, Doan said human busi…