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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, which would freeze new AI data center construction until federal safeguards on energy, environment,…
A group of publishers owning nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly stealing hundreds of thousands of articles to train ChatGPT and Copilot. Separately, Anthropic accused Chinese…
Ford rehired 350 veteran engineers after AI quality inspection tools failed to preserve institutional knowledge and develop junior staff, leading to a quality crisis. The move helped Ford win the 2026 JD Power Initial Qu…
A German court ruled that Google is liable for false information in its AI-generated search summaries, rejecting defenses that users should not blindly trust AI. The decision holds that the summaries are expressions of G…
Ford rehired 350 veteran engineers over three years after AI tools failed to preserve expertise and train junior staff, leading to quality problems. The engineers reprogrammed AI systems and mentored younger workers, hel…
Google is rolling out educator-led AI features for classrooms, integrating with learning management systems via Gemini LTI starting with NotebookLM. The teacher-led AI experience will be available in select LMSs in the c…
AI systems suffer from context drift in long-term use, where models reason from compressed interpretations of prior outputs rather than original user input, causing memory degradation. This architectural hallucination pr…
DuckDuckGo's AI search feature falsely reported that President Donald Trump died of rabies earlier this month, citing a fabricated news article. The misinformation originated from the Reddit subreddit r/poisonai, whose m…
RAISE US, a nonprofit led by former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, launched with over $500 million in commitments from OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, and others to retrain American workers for AI-era jobs. The initiative …
UN Women warned that AI systems reproduce historical gender stereotypes, citing a study of 133 AI systems where 44 percent exhibited gender bias. The warning, issued ahead of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, high…
Hasbro faces backlash after allegedly introducing contract terms for child voice actors on Peppa Pig that grant the studio perpetual rights to clone and use AI-generated audio. Nearly 1,000 entertainment professionals si…
California Governor Gavin Newsom launched a first-in-the-nation AI-Unemployment Tracker to monitor job losses linked to artificial intelligence, with initial data showing no statewide surge but upticks in the Bay Area an…
Sega's new alternate-reality game for Sonic fans sparked excitement until players discovered an AI training agreement in the terms, raising concerns about data usage and privacy.
REI ran an Instagram ad for a Van Rysel road bike that Meta's AI tool distorted, adding handlebars to the seat and creating other errors. The ad ran for a week before REI pulled it, blaming Meta's auto-enrolled Advantage…
Fraudulent papers and false authorship are surging across scientific publishing, driven by predatory journals and AI, according to a report by JMIR correspondent Cliff Dominy.
Tejas S Athni reported in the Journal of Medical Internet Research that conversational medical AI systems are increasingly simulating licensed health care providers while disclaiming legal responsibility, creating a gray…
At the Confidential Computing Summit in San Francisco, agentic AI security emerged as the breakout use case for confidential computing, with industry leaders highlighting attestation as a critical mechanism to prevent hi…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, and Microsoft are anchor partners in Raise US, a new nonprofit aiming to raise $1 billion to help states prepare workers for AI disruption. Led by former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, the g…
Five influential books on ethics, including Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, have shaped moral philosophy by exploring how to live a good life through virtue, duty, and …
Ohad Ravid published an essay arguing that large language models impose social exhaustion by requiring users to expend social energy typically reserved for human interaction. The piece contrasts embodied tool use with th…