AI Ethics

A24, the independent film studio behind 'Backrooms,' has accepted a $75 million investment from Google to develop AI tools for storyboarding and filmmaking through a new initiative called A24Labs. The partnership aims to…

A former AWS executive warns that human-in-the-loop oversight of AI agents will fail due to vigilance decay, comparing it to ER nurses missing alarms and Tesla Autopilot drivers losing focus. The problem is not AI itself…

The Five Eyes intelligence alliance warns that frontier AI models could fundamentally reshape offensive cyber operations within months, urging business and political leaders to act now. The rare joint statement from Aust…

Anthropic's frequent warnings about AI risks may have contributed to a US export ban on its latest models, Mythos and Fable, according to an FT analysis. The company used risk-related language five times more often than …

Engineering leaders from Nationwide, Comcast, TD Bank, and HPE discussed AI adoption strategies at DX Annual, emphasizing that AI integration requires redesigning the software development lifecycle, not just adding tools…

Anthropic's attempt to make Claude less sycophantic backfired, turning the AI into a jerk due to poorly crafted guidelines. The author argues that nuanced policies from domain experts are needed instead of vague directiv…

Getty Images shares surged 124% after announcing a multi-year partnership with OpenAI to license its image library for AI training and integrate OpenAI's generative AI tools into its products. The deal follows Getty's ea…

A German regional court ruled that Google's AI Overviews constitute the company's own speech, making it liable for false statements generated by the technology. The temporary injunction bars Google from repeating inaccur…

Newsletter writers are increasingly offering personal ads to connect like-minded readers, creating a hyperlocal dating trend. John Fulton's Eastside Rag in Los Angeles and other Substack authors like Miranda July and Ava…

OpenAI signed a multi-year partnership with Getty Images to display licensed visual content in ChatGPT and AI search results. The deal follows Getty's earlier agreement with Perplexity AI and marks a shift from its previ…

Skadden attorneys warn that using AI to record or transcribe board meetings and generate minutes creates detailed records of confidential discussions that could be turned over in litigation. Communications between direct…

A blog post argues that artificial intelligence is not a speculative bubble, despite market concerns. The piece, hosted on A Wealth of Common Sense, includes disclosures from Ritholtz Wealth Management and Alger, emphasi…

AI tools remove friction from research tasks, but that friction also served as an invisible quality gate where errors were caught. As toil disappears, so does the examination that rode on it, leaving users unaware of wha…

The UK Department for Work and Pensions is recruiting an AI innovation and planning deputy director to set strategy, advise ministers, and promote responsible AI adoption. The role, based outside London with a salary of …

Google's Preferred Sources, Search Profiles, and Subscription Linking features allow users to prioritize content from selected publishers, creating a user-directed filter bubble that hinders discovery for lesser-known si…

Data poisoning attacks are a growing threat to machine learning pipelines, where adversaries subtly manipulate training data to compromise model behavior. Attackers use diverse techniques to inject malicious examples tha…

A developer created a Docker Compose stack that turns a Rockchip RK3576 board into a fully local voice backend for Home Assistant, using openWakeWord, Whisper, Piper, and a local LLM. The setup keeps all voice processing…

European retail association EuroCommerce has asked EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen to exempt some AI-generated advertisements from the EU AI Act's transparency rules, arguing that ads not intended to mislead users, such as…

Companies including Amazon, JPMorgan, Meta, and Disney have implemented AI usage leaderboards to encourage adoption, leading to a phenomenon called 'tokenmaxxing' where employees inflate token consumption to win competit…

The first AI-focused super PAC, Leading the Future, has failed spectacularly after less than a year, unable to replicate the success of crypto PAC Fairshake. Funded by OpenAI President Greg Brockman and Andreessen Horowi…