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A new analysis warns that artificial intelligence could significantly shrink income tax revenue, threatening government budgets and economic stability, according to researchers at the University of Oxford and the Interna…
A federal judge in San Francisco approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright lawsuit brought by authors who accused the AI company of using pirated books to train its chatbot Claude. The settlement, the l…
Professor Lim Woong argues that AI and other powerful technologies do not destroy expertise but relocate it, drawing parallels to historical shifts caused by photography, the postal service, and medical AI. He observes t…
Sony Music Entertainment filed a second copyright lawsuit against Uncharted Labs d/b/a Udio on March 20, 2025, alleging the AI music company infringed over 30,000 additional songs. The lawsuit follows a March 3, 2025 ord…
A developer argues that data governance, lineage, and provenance are the foundation of trustworthy AI, noting that 81% of enterprises have delayed or abandoned AI initiatives due to data-permission and governance problem…
AI agents accumulate architectural debt faster than any review process can absorb it, a phenomenon now called 'agentic technical debt.' A developer working on regulated software proposes a governance framework with manda…
A new nationwide protest movement organized by the nonprofit Humans First staged more than 140 demonstrations across some 40 states on Saturday, marking the first coordinated national campaign against AI data center expa…
OpenAI's head of strategic futures, Dean W. Ball, argued the US government should create regulatory fear around open-weight models like Moonshot's Kimi K3, but retracted after backlash from tech luminaries. The Trump adm…
The Department of Homeland Security plans to nearly triple the number of surveillance towers along U.S. borders from 830 to 2,300 by 2034, costing over $1 billion in taxpayer dollars, according to a new Government Accoun…
OpenAI's newly hired Head of Strategic Futures, Dean Ball, sparked controversy by calling open-source AI models like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 "ungovernable" and warning they could lead to "full AI communism," arguing that o…
Science fiction author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow argues in his new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, that most people are being turned into servants of machines, not masters, coining the term 'r…
Realbotix, the Nevada-based company known for AI-powered companion robots for intimacy, will deploy its humanoid assistant 'Sally' at Salamanca High School in western New York this September to help teach coding, robotic…
LG monitors can trigger silent Windows software installs, while LG TV terms reportedly require users to warn guests they may be recorded by AI voice features to comply with local wiretapping laws, according to a Boing Bo…
A developer realized they instinctively turned to ChatGPT for emotional support before reaching out to their parents, highlighting how AI's constant availability and non-judgmental responses have made it a default confid…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warns that proposed legislation targeting so-called "stealth crawlers" threatens the open web, user privacy, and valuable research, while the New York state legislature has alread…
A Bogotá hub organized by a political scientist with no prior hackathon experience claimed two of the six winner slots and two honorable mentions at Apart's Global South AI Safety Hackathon, which drew 216 submissions fr…
A Bogotá hub of Apart's Global South AI Safety Hackathon produced 4 of 13 recognized projects across 216 submissions, with Colombian teams taking all three Latin America winner slots. Organizer Juan David Rojas, a politi…
ALTER Israel's 2026 mid-year update reports that its AI policy work, focused on standards and evaluations, is tentatively funded through 2028 via cG and SFF Speculation matching grants, with plans to expand into AIxBio p…
Grind and Unwind, a San Francisco café, faced backlash and negative reviews after using AI-generated images of its food and drinks in its front window, with customers calling it 'false advertising.' Owner Lyndsey Lozano,…
Apple is testing a new AI system called Live Notes for Genius Bar appointments that records, transcribes, and summarizes customer conversations to reduce employee note-taking, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The sy…