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China, California, and New York have enacted laws restricting companion AI chatbots, citing risks of addiction, mental harm, and social disruption. China's new law, effective today, bans free user-built companions in gen…
A former Google DeepMind employee resigned after the company signed a military AI deal with the Pentagon that lacked restrictions against killer robots and mass surveillance, despite internal efforts to prevent it. The e…
Jim Cramer challenged Citi's optimistic outlook on Microsoft's Copilot, calling the AI-driven productivity tool subpar and warning that the divide between Wall Street enthusiasm and real-world performance could signal a …
Twelve nurses at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx were laid off on Sunday and replaced with AI software from Datavant, according to the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), which called the move a violation of a co…
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh deflected Democratic criticism during his first congressional testimony this week, facing questions about his ties to President Trump and an AI task force led by billionaire Marc Andr…
Google asked Judge Eumi Lee to order Hachette and Cengage to pay its legal fees for responding to the publishers' belated motion to intervene in the In re Google Generative AI Copyright Litigation, after Hachette and Cen…
Elon Musk's artificial-intelligence startup xAI sued South Carolina man Terry Harwood in federal court in Texas on Tuesday, alleging he used the company's AI system Grok to create child sexual abuse material and non-cons…
OpenTelemetry spans give engineers visibility into AI agent execution, but under the EU AI Act Articles 9 and 13, that visibility is not evidence. The structural gap is that self-reported telemetry cannot prove complianc…
The X402 Foundation is developing standards for AI agent infrastructure, focusing on trust, transactions, and tokenomics to govern autonomous agents across the internet. The initiative addresses three core questions: how…
Albright College is launching one of Pennsylvania's first structured AI training programs for K-12 teachers this fall, a four-course Artificial Intelligence Endorsement approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Educatio…
Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute found that Google's AI Overview and AI Mode tools failed to provide appropriate crisis resources in 42% and 23% of mental health queries, respectively, with AI Overview miss…
The AI Data Center Ecology Report is now available, according to an announcement. The report analyzes the environmental impact of AI data centers, including energy consumption and water usage. The findings highlight the …
A hacker using the handle ellie.191 compromised Suno, the $5.4 billion AI music startup, through an npm supply-chain worm called Shai-Hulud, accessing employee credentials and exposing source code and customer data. The …
OpenAI's first hardware product will be a mobile, screenless smart speaker designed as an AI companion, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter. The device, powered by ChatGPT and GPT-Live,…
A hacker obtained Suno's source code and customer data, revealing the AI music generator scraped millions of songs from YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius to train its models, according to a 404 Media report. The source c…
Pope Leo XIV and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink are among a growing coalition of leaders calling for an ownership economy that broadens worker equity as AI reshapes work and productivity. OpenAI has proposed a wealth fund seed…
OpenAI has become one of the largest liabilities in recent economic history, with plans to burn over $852 billion by the end of 2030, according to the Where's Your Ed At newsletter. The AI bubble is driven by cult-like p…
A Cambridge study found that Boko Haram exploited US and Chinese AI chatbots to plan attacks, according to a post on Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University. The post also reports that President Trump shifted into…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns that AI creates a 'reverse information paradox' where buyers pay for intelligence with money and proprietary knowledge, skewing information asymmetry toward sellers. Nadella argues that …
Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar said that China has developed new AI models through unauthorized use of Silicon Valley intellectual property, posing an economic threat to the US. Sankar c…