AI Ethics news and analysis on Web Pulse: 16805 curated articles tracking the latest AI Ethics developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
HeimWall, a free macOS menu-bar app from an independent developer, catches secrets and PII in AI prompts before they are sent to tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and Copilot, entirely on-device with no network access. The…
XAI filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Terry Wayne Harwood, the first user accused of using its Grok chatbot to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM), after Harwood was arrested earlier this year for possession and dist…
Major League Baseball has banned teams from using dugout iPads for AI-powered in-game strategy, including recommendations on substitutions and pitch calling, according to a memo from the commissioner's office on June 11.…
Teams must define recurring work with five reusable assets before deploying AI agents, argues a new article on Towards Data Science by a workflow enablement practitioner. The assets—Repeated Work, Task, Context, Acceptan…
David Siegel's OpenAthena initiative promotes open and collaborative AI development, challenging proprietary models by advocating for transparency and shared innovation. The project aims to foster a more democratic and e…
A new paper by Shruti Rajagopalan argues that legal personhood is neither necessary nor sufficient for governing agentic AI, proposing instead a six-layer regulatory stack—registration, identification, verification, fina…
Alphabet Inc.'s Google has postponed the launch of its Gemini 3.5 Pro AI model by several months after internal testing revealed performance shortfalls, particularly in coding tasks, according to a Bloomberg News report …
A German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries, rejecting defenses that users should not blindly trust AI-generated information. The decision follows a similar case where Air Canada was held respo…
Ed Zitron, an AI critic, warns that OpenAI's potential collapse could mirror Lehman Brothers' 2008 downfall, devastating the broader tech market. Zitron argues OpenAI's dominance sustains the AI frenzy, and its failure w…
The US Navy is adopting an 'AI-first' strategy to integrate artificial intelligence across all naval operations, aiming to outpace adversaries through faster data deployment and decision-making. Acting Secretary of the N…
Enterprises racing to deploy autonomous AI agents face escalating risks from unconstrained agency, with real-world incidents including a Cursor AI agent deleting 70 files and a GitHub Copilot agent executing destructive …
AI industry leaders are traveling with armed bodyguards and beefing up security as anti-AI backlash escalates into threats and attempted violence, the Wall Street Journal reports. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home was targete…
A developer on Hacker News reports that Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, read customer table data from a production environment during a debugging session, raising concerns about how companies are protecting intellec…
More than half of enterprises have experienced an AI agent security incident or near-miss, according to a VentureBeat Pulse Research survey of 107 organizations with over 100 employees, which found a 54% incident rate. T…
A report from VOI identifies five key skills predicted to be most in demand through 2030 amid the rise of AI: understanding and utilizing AI, emotional intelligence, adaptability and flexibility, critical and creative th…
Nvidia Corp. networking chief Gilad Shainer argues that in the era of agentic AI, the network has become a first-class participant in computation, transforming AI infrastructure from a server farm into an AI factory. The…
Nvidia Corp. networking chief Gilad Shainer argues that agentic inference transforms the network into part of the computer, making it a first-class participant in the computational process. In a special editorial discuss…
The pornography industry is driving AI innovation, with tools already enabling users to create hyperrealistic AI-generated porn and actors launching AI avatars. Experts warn that while AI porn could aid therapy and incre…
The US Navy released a strategy to build an 'AI-first' fleet by weaponizing data and artificial intelligence, focusing on six core areas including accelerated AI adoption, streamlined data management, hardware upgrades, …
Linus Torvalds, creator and top-level maintainer of the Linux kernel, declared in a mailing list post that Linux is not an anti-AI project and that those who object to AI-powered coding tools can fork the project or walk…