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A developer argues that AI agent traces, which can contain sensitive data like user messages, system instructions, and tool results, should be kept local by default. A local-first tracing design gives developers executio…
Responsible AI is the practice of designing, developing, and deploying artificial intelligence systems that are ethical, fair, transparent, and accountable throughout their lifecycle, combining technical safeguards, gove…
AI-native gross margins reached about 52% in 2026, up from 41% in 2024 (ICONIQ), but still short of the 70-90% that classic software earns, as agents reshape compute consumption, pricing, and revenue recognition. Finance…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a model that early assessments show matches Anthropic's Opus 4.8, built by a team of just 300 people, reigniting debate over whether U.S. export controls and compute advantages are effective…
San Francisco city attorney David Chiu has sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google demanding the removal of 13 AI-powered 'nudify' apps—eight on the App Store and five on the Play Store—that create nonconsensua…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told the U.S. Congress that the company's investigation suggests Kimi K3 may have distilled an unreleased Anthropic model, raising a new AI safety issue termed 'Future Model Leakage.' Lawmakers…
Businesses including DoorDash, Airbnb, and Siemens are experimenting with cheaper Chinese AI models from startups like Moonshot AI and DeepSeek as costs for U.S. rivals such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic rise, accordi…
Twenty-six Meta employees sued the social media giant in a California federal court, alleging the company used artificial intelligence systems that targeted workers on medical or family leave for layoffs. The lawsuit cla…
Twenty-six former Meta employees have filed a lawsuit alleging that Meta used AI tools to illegally fire them, disproportionately targeting workers who had taken protected leave for pregnancy, disability, or bereavement.…
Reps. Pat Harrigan and George Whitesides introduced the Tracking Online Time And Limits Screen Time Act on July 15, asking the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop voluntary screen time standards for…
A hack has revealed that AI music app Suno scraped millions of songs from YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius to train its AI model, with source code showing 2,013,545 music clips and 113,879 hours of YouTube music in its …
Public backlash against Flock Safety, a $7.5 billion startup making AI-powered license plate-scanning cameras, has intensified, with the LAPD allowing its three-year contract to expire and other cities removing cameras. …
Hyundai's plan to deploy Boston Dynamics Atlas humanoid robots in car-making factories has triggered the first-ever humanoid robot strike, with workers and their union pushing back against the automation initiative.
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar published a scorecard for measuring AI return on investment, arguing that AI must be measured by the work it accomplishes rather than traditional software metrics like adoption. Friar defines the k…
Beijing-based startup Moonshot's new Kimi K3 model has topped the charts on Arena's ranking of front-end coding capability, surprising the U.S. tech industry and signaling that open-source Chinese AI models are catching …
Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick and co-founder of WIRED, argues in a 2026 update of his 2008 essay "Better Than Free" that when AI makes perfect copies of creative work free and abundant, creators must sell intangible quali…
Hyundai workers have gone on strike over the introduction of humanoid robots in factories, while China is cracking down on chatbot romance, signaling growing tensions as AI encroaches on human labor and emotional connect…
A Barron's article titled 'Why Apple’s ‘Standard Oil’ Strategy Is Driving the Stock to All-Time Highs' argues that Apple's AI strategy is succeeding despite not delivering its own model, while New York Governor Kathy Hoc…
A new Corrigibility Research Fund, housed at Lightcone Infrastructure and managed by a long-time AI safety researcher, will award at least $200,000 in grants and prizes for corrigibility research in 2026, with the first …
AgentLedger, an open-source Python SDK, provides AI pipelines with structured, queryable audit trails for every consequential action, including decisions, reasoning traces, policy triggers, and human review requirements.…