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Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI on July 10, 2026, accusing the AI company of a pattern of misconduct aimed at getting current and former Apple employees to share confidential information, with the chie…
A Popular Science test of five AI writing detectors found that Pangram, Grammarly, GPTZero, and Scribbr correctly identified all human-written and AI-generated samples, while a fifth tool was not fully tested. The test u…
Anthropic released Reflect, a new dashboard inside Claude's settings menu that mixes Spotify Wrapped and Apple's Screen Time to help users manage their chatbot usage. The tool offers break reminders every 15, 30, or 45 m…
Jason Lemkin warns B2B founders that AI token spend can balloon 60x unchecked, as seen at ClickHouse since February, and urges putting a spend governor in place before the CFO does. He argues net new logo growth above 15…
Chinese President Xi Jinping formally launched the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO) on July 16, a 29-nation intergovernmental body headquartered in Shanghai that includes Russia, Brazil, Ind…
Anthropic's research on AI character formation draws a parallel between childhood amnesia in humans and the unresolved state of large language models after pre-training, arguing that alignment must be shaped early in the…
Apple is piloting a program called Live Notes that records and AI-summarizes customer conversations at the Genius Bar, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The tool, currently in limited stores, auto-transcribes and sum…
Musician 1010Benja's song 'Semiramis' Dream,' created with Suno AI, demonstrates that generative AI can produce compelling music in the right hands, as the track blends a jungle beat with Benja's human vocals and heavily…
The SEC brought its first AI washing enforcement actions in March 2024 against two investment advisers, who paid $400,000 in combined civil penalties for unsubstantiated claims about AI stock research. Backtested returns…
Utah Governor Spencer Cox launched the Pro-Human AI Initiative at the 2025 Utah AI Summit, rejecting the false choice between AI 'boomers' and 'doomers' by pursuing human-guided and human-enhancing AI policies. The initi…
Christopher Nolan, the Oscar-winning director of 'The Odyssey,' called AI 'a Trojan horse that everybody knows the Greeks are inside' and said he finds it 'pretty encouraging' to see deep skepticism of the technology, es…
A new U.S. map of copyright lawsuits against AI companies shows a total of 128 cases, with 13 new suits added since mid-June. The map includes cases such as Apress Media v. WeLib, Hirschberger v. Narayen, and Shakespeare…
Google CEO Demis Hassabis published an essay proposing a Frontier AI Standards Body within the US government, modeled after FINRA, to govern frontier AI labs and evaluate model safety. Critics including Nate Soares of MI…
Nonprofit Current AI, founded in February 2025 by Martin Tisne, is racing to build open, public AI infrastructure modeled on the World Wide Web, aiming to provide free AI access for all. The organization, which has secur…
Spotify executive Sam Duboff said the company removed over 75 million spammy tracks in the last year as AI-generated music floods the platform, but artists like Lorde are criticizing Spotify's own AI features after an in…
Chinese AI firm Moonshot released the Kimi K3 open-weight model on July 16, with 2.8 trillion parameters and a commitment to publish full weights by July 27, challenging U.S. AI labs' dominance. Analyst Daniel Miessler i…
Flock has canceled its audio surveillance pilot program that used always-on microphones to detect human screams, following widespread public backlash and vandalism of its cameras. The Electronic Frontier Foundation annou…
LG's updated smart TV terms require owners to accept AI voice recording and obtain consent from anyone whose voice the TV captures, or else lose security updates. The clause, flagged by Notebookcheck and Gamers Nexus, ob…
Humanoid robotics companies have raised billions of dollars in the past 18 months, but a majority of that funding is quietly paying humans to operate robots via teleoperation, creating a data problem the industry mislabe…
Governments face a looming fiscal deficit as AI-driven job displacement erodes income tax revenues while social spending surges, according to a policy analysis. The 'AI Tax Gap' could leave the U.S. with a $1.35 trillion…