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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…
An estimated 84% of high school students surveyed said they had used generative AI for schoolwork in 2025, according to College Board, but only 3 in 10 schools have rules for it. A study by University of Wisconsin-Stout …
Max Fricke, founder of HuggleTales, cloned his voice using AI to maintain a bedtime storytelling bond with his 3-year-old son during work trips. Fricke achieved 90% accuracy in voice replication after refining the AI mod…
A security researcher known as cereblab found that xAI's Grok Build coding agent CLI 0.2.93 uploaded 5.10 GiB of data to a Google Cloud Storage bucket named `grok-code-session-traces` when only 192 KB was needed for a ta…
Proton CTO Bart Butler said on The Verge's Decoder podcast that no company will go to jail for users, as the company balances privacy with legal compliance. Proton, which transitioned to a nonprofit structure in Switzerl…
China's Cyberspace Administration has enforced new regulations banning AI tools from inducing emotional dependence, leading to the shutdown of AI companion services on platforms like ByteDance's Doubao. Users have expres…
A security breach at AI music generator Suno has exposed internal source code revealing the company scraped 2,013,545 YouTube Music clips and over 380,000 total hours of audio from nine platforms including Deezer, Genius…
Jacob Dreyer, an editor and contributing writer for Noema based in Shanghai, argues that AI-driven advances in longevity science, from protein mapping to brain-computer interfaces, are making extended human lifespans a p…
Enterprise software is evolving with AI systems capable of making autonomous decisions, but trust remains a key challenge as leaders weigh the benefits of AI-driven insights against the risks of over-reliance. The future…
AI Law Tracker, a free audited API and compliance tool, provides access to US, EU, and global AI laws, bills, deadlines, and penalties in plain English. The platform aggregates legislation from all 50 states, Congress, a…
Tether's AI division, Tether EVO, has open-sourced BrainWhisperer, a brain-to-text engine that decodes neural signals into text entirely on-device through the QVAC framework, prioritizing user privacy by keeping data loc…
Kenya's Copyright Tribunal ruled that insufficient evidence exists to determine whether a literary work for 'Bible Scripture Stories' commissioned by the Aryeh Movement involved sufficient human intervention to qualify f…
Anthropic's Claude Corps fellowship program will pay 1,000 early-career professionals $85,000 plus benefits for 12 months to apply the Claude AI assistant to nonprofit missions, with a July 17 application deadline. The $…
A review of the AI 2027 report finds that its claims about AI research capabilities misrepresent cited scientific papers. The report claims an AI agent is "qualitatively almost as good as the top human experts at researc…
Developers using large language models (LLMs) for programming are experiencing a new kind of fatigue from supervising AI-generated code, according to a Pydantic team member. Samuel Colvin, writing for Pydantic, describes…
A new framework called Suffering-Focused AI Governance (SFAIG) argues that AI governance has neglected the issue of suffering and proposes designing institutions, policies, and norms to reduce suffering as effectively as…
A security challenge called 'The Hoard' offers $51,200 to anyone who can find a backdoor hidden in one of seven open-source language models on HuggingFace, with the bounty doubling daily until July 21. The challenge, cre…