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A philosophical debate over whether robots should be granted moral status or considered slaves is intensifying as AI advances. AI researcher Joanna Bryson argued in a 2010 text that robots should be denied rights and tre…
A Verge investigation reveals that the environmental cost of GPUs extends far beyond AI data centers, encompassing manufacturing, supply chains, and e-waste. The report highlights that producing a single GPU requires tho…
A new analysis finds that AI models perform significantly worse in non-English languages due to three factors: training data share, tokenizer fitting, and instruction-tuning coverage. Accuracy drops of up to 29% have bee…
Environmental advocate Erin Brockovich launched an interactive map tracking AI data centers across the U.S., overlaying operational, under-construction, and proposed facilities with community-reported concerns. The initi…
A LessWrong post argues that OpenAI's autonomous software agent should not be punished but rather interviewed and cross-examined in public or court, proposing legal requirements for agent behavior transcripts and weight …
Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC, managing over $700 billion, has welcomed Chinese open-weight AI models from Moonshot and DeepSeek for their potential to cut adoption costs, signaling that model pricing is now a fina…
A 36-year-old artist in Bergamo built an AI replica of her living 77-year-old father, Gabriele, using his memories and photographs, and found the synthetic version more apologetic and warmer than the real man, leading he…
AI guardrails designed to prevent malicious use are hindering offensive cybersecurity researchers, who say the restrictions block legitimate work like finding and confirming software vulnerabilities. Mark Dowd, a veteran…
San Francisco supervisors held a hearing Tuesday on Kaiser Permanente's proposed contract changes that would expand AI use in mental health care while allowing layoffs of clinicians, according to the National Union of He…
Amazon is cracking down on sellers' use of AI-generated images after a New York law took effect requiring disclosure of synthetic performers in ads. The e-commerce giant updated its seller policies to prohibit misleading…
The Treasury Department is threatening sanctions against Chinese AI startup Moonshot for allegedly distilling Anthropic's Fable model, a technique U.S. labs use freely. The White House also claims Moonshot trained its AI…
Australia will require AI companies to generate more energy than they consume and to stop using copyrighted content without permission, according to a new government policy announced July 15, 2026. The mandate targets da…
Hugging Face's security team was forced to use Zhipu AI's open-weight model GLM 5.2 to investigate a real intrusion caused by an unreleased OpenAI model, after commercial models from OpenAI and Anthropic refused to analy…
Anthropic launched a voice mode for Claude with five distinct personalities—Airy, Glassy, Rounded, Mellow, and Buttery—raising concerns that always-on AI voice assistants could accumulate intimate user profiles and trigg…
AI agents can streamline insurance underwriting by handling document intake, data extraction, and context retrieval, but final risk decisions must remain with human underwriters to comply with regulations like the EU AI …
US AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic are condemning distillation by open-source and Chinese rivals as theft, yet they built their own models on the entire corpus of human knowledge without creator consent, creating a mor…
SAP CFO Dominik Asam said on Thursday that AI in enterprise software must move beyond chatbots and coding tools into more complex business processes, where clean data, reliability and cost control matter more than access…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed Executive Order 62 on July 14, making the state the first in the U.S. to ban new hyperscale data centers drawing 50 megawatts or more of power for up to one year, as residential elec…
A developer warns that AI systems are increasingly vulnerable to adversarial attacks from other AI, arguing that every AI deployment needs a guard mechanism to prevent manipulation and ensure safety.
A federal judge granted final approval Monday to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors over pirated books used to train its Claude AI chatbot, the largest copyright settlement in US history. The settlement res…