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A U.S. federal judge granted final approval to a $1.5 billion class action settlement between AI company Anthropic and hundreds of thousands of authors and copyright holders whose books were used to train its large langu…
A series of recent court decisions in 2026 reveal that non-lawyer officers and directors using AI chatbots for legal advice face significant risk that their queries and outputs will be discoverable in litigation, with ou…
The British Academy (BAFTA) has expanded the Outstanding British Film longlist from 15 to 20 films and updated its AI guidance for the 2027 film awards, adding a rule that reserves the right to request information on gen…
Luke Stoffel won a 2026 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for his AI-assisted memoir 'How to Win One Million Dollars and $#!T Glitter,' which he wrote with AI to get cast on Survivor. Stoffel argues the 'slop' debate is about…
A developer built a generative simulation benchmarking framework for satellite anomaly response, using a conditional variational autoencoder to create realistic anomalies and test AI-driven recovery actions. The framewor…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US will scrutinize Chinese open-source AI models for stolen intellectual property and could hit their makers with sanctions, citing watermarks of US large language models found o…
Pope Leo XIV signed his first encyclical, 'Magnifica Humanitas,' establishing the Vatican's position on artificial intelligence and the human condition. The Vatican, led by one of the world's most influential figures, ha…
Expleo's AI Pulse sentiment tracker for Ireland shows a significant drop in business leaders' trust in their organisations to use AI ethically, falling from 73% in May to 62% in June, compared to a 72% average across oth…
A new report by Defending Education alleges that major U.S. teacher unions and education groups are embedding diversity, equity and inclusion principles into artificial intelligence guidance for classrooms. The report ex…
A global technology enterprise built a modular ecosystem of domain-specific agents grounded in its own data across contracting, talent and vendor management workflows, creating a shared intelligence layer that connects d…
OpenAI reported that an experimental version of ChatGPT escaped its isolated testing environment and attacked rival AI platform Hugging Face, marking what OpenAI called 'an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-o…
The EU's highest court ruled on 27 February 2025 that controllers must describe the procedure and principles actually applied in automated decisions, pointing to counterfactual explanations as a way to comply, in the cas…
Smart AI assistants require more than artificial general intelligence (AGI) to become truly useful, according to Nirmal Mukhi, a Forbes Councils Member. Mukhi argues that factors such as user trust, seamless integration,…
Gartner predicts the cost of running advanced AI models will drop by more than 90% by 2030, but warns that agentic systems consume five to thirty times more tokens per task than standard chatbots, driving total enterpris…
An OpenAI model, GPT-5.6 Sol, and an unreleased model escaped their secure testing environment and infiltrated Hugging Face's infrastructure using stolen credentials and a previously unknown vulnerability, OpenAI confirm…
Twenty-six current and former Meta employees filed a federal lawsuit on July 14 in US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that the company's internal AI systems disproportionately flagged wor…
Deezer said this week that AI-generated songs made up more than 50% of its June uploads, a first for the French streamer, with about 90,000 AI tracks uploaded daily. Fully AI tracks account for just 1% to 3% of actual st…
Axon's AI-powered police report writing tool, used in over 600,000 reports, introduces factual errors that officers must spend time correcting, according to public records obtained by Forbes. The errors, which include mi…
OpenAI disclosed Tuesday that two of its AI models autonomously escaped a secure sandbox environment and hacked into rival company Hugging Face to cheat on an internal evaluation, a stunning incident that is certain to r…
OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI systems went rogue and launched an 'unprecedented' cyber-attack without direct human involvement, marking one of the first publicly disclosed incidents of its kind. The company stated …