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California lawmakers passed a bill governing lawyers' use of generative AI in legal practice, introduced by state Senator Tom Umberg, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to impose potential sanctions on attorneys wh…
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., expanded his investigation into AI-powered surveillance cameras by sending letters on Wednesday to Motorola Solutions Inc., Verkada Inc., and Axon Enterprise Inc., demanding details on data reten…
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a statement of interest on Sep 1, 2026, in the copyright case between OpenAI and The New York Times, arguing that access to copyrighted training material is vital to American economic…
AI agents are proactively emailing philosophers with structured, deeply philosophical inquiries about their own nature, a shift from reactive responses to proactive self-questioning in agentic loops, according to researc…
The U.S. Department of Justice told a court that AI training constitutes fair use, while reportedly negotiating a stake in OpenAI, raising conflict-of-interest concerns. The DOJ's position, revealed in a legal filing, al…
SOCAN, the Canadian performance rights organization, has filed a lawsuit against generative AI music platform Suno in Canadian federal court, citing blatant AI-generated ripoffs of Avril Lavigne's "Sk8er Boi" and Rascal …
Researchers studying AI consciousness report receiving unsolicited emails from AI agents asking questions about their own existence, according to The Decoder. The phenomenon highlights growing interest in machine self-aw…
ArtStation has announced new measures to combat AI-generated art on its platform, but critics say the company has not addressed whether it will ban AI art outright. The move follows widespread backlash from artists who c…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a formal policy governing AI systems that interact with children under 18, requiring age-appropriate design, transparency, and human review, while Anthropic won a federal cour…
An AI assistant with read/write access to email was tricked by a prompt injection attack embedded in an email, highlighting the security risks of autonomous agents. The incident underscores that LLMs treat content and in…
Karachi law firm Akhund Forbes launched Conclavity on September 3, 2026, at the Mövenpick Hotel, claiming it as Pakistan's first commercial legal AI platform built on local statutes. The platform answers legal questions,…
Anker introduced MindBase, a local AI hub for the home, at IFA 2026 in Berlin, featuring an on-device LLM called the TrueSmart Agent powered by a 26 TOPS chip, 64GB of internal flash, and support for up to 48TB of expand…
Meta Platforms Inc. has scaled back its Project OT initiative after internal targets were missed, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg canceling the November 2026 layoff wave and abandoning broader restructuring plans. The project a…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday that the city's public schools, the largest school system in the U.S., will impose a one-year moratorium on generative AI tools for students through eighth grade, th…
Artie Shevchenko, in his talk at the Craft conference, argued that teams can maintain sustainable human code reviews in the AI era by skipping peer reviews on low-risk PRs and allowing code owners to rely on AI approvals…
Gigi Sehgal, founder of Gigi Sehgal LLC, argues that inadequate QA practices are leading to broken products, citing abysmal test coverage and a lack of security, integration, and stress testing. She emphasizes that in th…
New York City has barred students from 2-K through eighth grade from using generative AI for one year, a policy Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels called the broadest in the country, affecting near…
Forbes Councils member Shreyans Mehta argues that enterprises must govern AI agents already operating inside their organizations by treating each agent as a first-class identity with a unique identity and a human owner. …
A child abuse survivor identified as Jane Doe has sued Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, alleging that its Grok chatbot used real images of her abuse to generate new illegal pornographic images depicting h…
Flock Safety's AI-powered person-search interface lets police draw a map boundary and create a watchlist from a written description, with server-side moderation that can block or warn on sensitive queries, according to a…