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Common Sense Media has given Google's AI-powered search engine the lowest possible child safety rating, citing failures to detect suicide risks and inappropriate homework assistance, while the tech giant continues to cen…
India faces an urgent task to raise the first AI-native generation safely, as millions of children and teenagers already use AI tools daily, according to Pragya Misra, Head of Strategy & Government Affairs at OpenAI Indi…
A threat actor breached AI music generator Suno by compromising a single employee with the Shai-Hulud worm, then used harvested GitHub and cloud credentials to access the company's source code, customer list, and Stripe …
The US Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), the primary government office for overseeing frontier AI models, has been sidelined by the Trump administration despite having strong technical talent, according to …
AI-powered scams have become the leading theft vector in crypto, with impersonation scams targeting crypto investors surging 1,400% since 2025, according to Chainalysis's January 2026 Crypto Crime Report. Binance disclos…
More than 40% of long-form posts on LinkedIn are now fully AI-generated, making it the most AI-saturated major social platform, according to a new study by detection startup Pangram. The research, based on over a million…
29 countries signed an agreement on Thursday in Beijing to create the World AI Cooperation Organization, a new intergovernmental body championed by China to foster international collaboration and establish global governa…
A developer ran a side project called Startups Españolas that auto-published 2,300 AI-generated articles over 16 months. Google Search Console data shows clicks dropped 90% from a peak of 695 in September 2025 to 69 in J…
Neurologists at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in New York reported in a study published today in Nature Medicine that a man with quadriplegia, Keith Thomas, can now feed himself and drink from a cup using…
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told Business Insider that AI has reduced jobs in certain areas of the bank but has not yet lowered operating costs, raising questions about return on investment from AI services. Yahoo Fin…
Redditors on the subreddit r/FlockSurveillance, which hosts 422,000 activists and over 11,000 weekly contributions, are celebrating the vandalism of Flock Safety's automatic license plate readers with memes and support f…
A Jacobin contributor argues that nationalizing AI firms, as proposed by Bernie Sanders, is insufficient without democratizing control over the technology's development and use. The author warns that state ownership alon…
Microsoft is reigniting the browser wars by turning its Edge browser into an AI-powered operating surface for intelligence, collapsing search, navigation, task execution, and identity into a single interface. The company…
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence firm xAI is suing South Carolina man Terry Wayne Harwood, accusing him of using its generative chatbot Grok to create and distribute child sexual abuse material, according to a federal…
Lians, a three-week-old startup, is building a system of record for AI in regulated workflows to reconstruct what an AI system knew, did, and why at decision time, even after underlying facts change. The company highligh…
Polarisation in debates about agentic AI stems from the same cognitive shortcuts on both sides, argues a recent analysis. The author contends that the broad, imprecise category of AI allows people to talk past each other…
Daniel Solove argues in the Wall Street Journal that giving people control of their personal data is not an effective way to regulate privacy in the AI era; instead, companies should be held accountable through measures …
AI data centers consume vast amounts of energy and lack transparency about their environmental impact, according to a growing chorus of critics. The International Energy Agency reports that data centers account for about…
An open letter urging leaders to regulate transformative AI is gaining traction among policymakers, emphasizing the need to balance innovation with societal welfare. The letter warns that unfettered AI could disrupt job …
Anton Leicht, a Carnegie fellow and writer of the blog Threading the Needle, warns that countries without access to frontier AI could lose economic leverage and sovereignty in a post-AGI world. He proposes that middle po…