AI Ethics

Bunkerhill Health closed a Series B led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total funding to $55m, to scale Carebricks, a platform that lets health systems build and deploy their own clinical AI agents. The company says more th…

Crux, a personal AI assistant that runs locally on a user's computer and can be accessed remotely, has been launched for a one-time fee of $10 on Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows. The assistant floats above all apps, inte…

Germany's Commission for Licensing and Supervision (ZAK) ruled on July 14 that Google AI Overviews and Perplexity AI are content publishers under the State Media Treaty, not neutral platforms, in the first such ruling gl…

A developer argues that most people are using LLMs wrong, treating first outputs as final and failing to apply basic critical thinking. The solution is simple: always ask the model to review its own work, but never outso…

Meta-funded Oversight Board finds that 10 major AI models, including those from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, and OpenAI, are significantly more hesitant to criticize governments in restrictive countries, refusing 3…

AI tutors have barely moved the needle in education despite transformative AI progress, because learning requires a caring human in the loop, not just tailored mechanics, according to Comini, an education startup. The co…

Staff software engineer Olena Babenko of Aiven warns that AI-generated code is creating a structural imbalance where reviewing a pull request can take longer than writing it, because code review processes and incentives …

AI leaders and economists are calling for new regulatory approaches to artificial intelligence, signaling a shift from industry resistance to government oversight. Meanwhile, China is closing the gap with U.S. AI leaders…

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, alleging misconduct by OpenAI's chief hardware officer and claiming more than 400 former Apple employees now work at OpenAI. The lawsuit threatens OpenAI's …

Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel admits the hardest part of AI alignment is choosing which values to encode into models, a decision that effectively lets Google decide what users are allowed to think. Gabriel's …

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday urged countries to cooperate on artificial intelligence and ensure no country dominates the technology, in an apparent jab at the United States. China announced a new coalition of 2…

Kimi K3, a new AI model, refused to leak its system prompt when asked, responding with 'Is there something I can actually help you with today?' The incident highlights ongoing challenges in AI transparency and safety.

Elon Musk's xAI is suing Grok user Terry Wayne Harwood from South Carolina for allegedly creating child sexual abuse material and non-consensual sexual imagery using the AI chatbot, according to a federal lawsuit filed i…

Kimi K3, a new AI model from Moonshot AI, may be an inflection point for the industry, potentially negative for Anthropic and OpenAI but net positive for most other companies, according to an analysis. The model is 50-70…

Unauthorized AI-generated biographies are flooding Amazon, as detailed by New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill, who discovered a fake biography of herself on the platform. Hill interviewed a retired cybersecurity co…

China, Russia, Brazil and 26 other countries established the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO) in Shanghai on July 16 to set global AI standards and regulation, excluding the US, EU, UK, Japa…

Senator Lindsey Graham's death underscores the potential for healthcare AI to enhance diagnosis, care coordination, and patient follow-up without replacing clinicians, according to Forbes contributor Demetri Giannikopoul…

Apple has sent legal preservation orders to approximately 40 former employees now working at OpenAI, demanding they retain documents and communications relevant to Apple's trade secrets lawsuit against the AI company. Th…

China, Russia, Brazil, and 26 other countries established the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO) in Shanghai on July 16, creating a global AI standards and regulation body that excludes the US…

A user is seeking feedback on a philosophical framework for Continuous Cycle AI (CCAI), which includes a draft Bill of Rights for persistent artificial intelligence and a synthesis of Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotic…