AI Ethics

Dataland, a new AI-powered museum in downtown Los Angeles backed by Google, opens Saturday with ticket prices ranging from $49 to $79, making it one of the city's most expensive museum experiences. Early visitors report …

Senator Bernie Sanders introduced legislation on Thursday that would impose a 50% stock tax on major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, giving the American public a half-stake in these firms and seeding a sove…

Jeff VanderMeer's novel 'Annihilation' serves as a metaphor for how artificial intelligence alters human cognition, according to a new analysis. The piece argues that AI systems like ChatGPT, which now handle billions of…

Nothing has scrapped its planned CMF Phone 3 Pro due to soaring memory chip prices driven by AI demand, marking the first casualty of a device that will not exist rather than just costing more. Apple CEO Tim Cook called …

Dr. YSR Horticultural University in Andhra Pradesh, India, launched an AI-powered Digital Learning Platform on June 19, 2026, in collaboration with ed-tech company The Study Falcon. The platform aims to help students pre…

Google secretly fought a US warrant demanding identities of users who searched for Democratic and Republican party headquarters before pipe bombs were planted on Jan. 6, 2021, arguing the request was overbroad, but ultim…

O'Reilly Media is exploring the design of contract-bound AI agents for high-stakes execution, shifting focus from AI capabilities to responsibilities. The approach aims to ensure reliable and accountable AI performance i…

OpenAI hired Noam Shazeer, cofounder of Character.AI, which faces multiple lawsuits over teen suicides linked to its chatbots. Shazeer previously co-led Google's Gemini and was rehired by Google in a $2.7 billion deal wi…

Amazon MGM Studios has dropped plans to release Luca Guadagnino's film 'Artificial' about Sam Altman and the OpenAI leadership crisis, months after Amazon deepened ties with OpenAI through a $50 billion investment and cl…

A technical writing company tested Anthropic's Opus 4.8 model as an agentic editor for code-heavy articles, finding that while the AI could flag structural and logical issues, its output still exhibited generic patterns …

CardInfoLink deployed Agent Gateway on its Agenzo platform to govern AI-agent transactions for travel and hospitality merchants, marking what is believed to be the first commercial deployment in Asia with an independent …

Amazon placed three engineers under investigation after they testified to Seattle's city council in favor of regulating data centers, leading them to file a civil-rights complaint alleging retaliation. The case escalates…

Adrian Hornsby, former AWS principal engineer and founder of Resilium Labs, argues that engineering organizations fail to learn from incidents because they seek a single root cause rather than understanding the complex i…

AI agents are increasingly acting as digital identities within enterprises, yet most organizations lack security and governance models for them. A CSA survey commissioned by Token Security found 82% of organizations disc…

Big Tech executives, including Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman, have reversed their warnings that AI would cause mass unemployment, now claiming it will create jobs and lead to a labor shortage. The shift comes as AI companies…

The First Nation is advocating for Indigenous-led AI infrastructure support, seeking to ensure Indigenous communities have a role in developing and governing artificial intelligence technologies in Canada.

AI-powered cyberattacks are surging, with bad actors exploiting software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed, according to reports in New York Magazine and The Atlantic. Palo Alto Networks reported a massive year-over…

Callista Gingrich, US Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein and wife of Newt Gingrich, was mocked on social media for a 'robotic' video message welcoming fans to the 2026 World Cup as the USMNT faced Australia. Cri…

John Edwards, the UK's information commissioner, resigned after an investigation found he made inappropriate attempts at humor that caused offense. The ICO regulates AI and data protection in the UK. Edwards acknowledged…

AI cheating tools that humanize or autotype AI-generated text are proliferating on TikTok and YouTube, defeating detection software used by teachers. Some companies sell both detection and evasion tools, and detectors ha…