AI Ethics

Philosopher John Haugeland suggested 40 years ago that artificial intelligence should be called synthetic intelligence, and business leaders now need to understand the distinction as five key signs mark the transition fr…

Learning to code remains essential in a post-AI era because software engineering is fundamentally about judgment and decision-making, not syntax, according to an analysis of the discipline's core skills. AI can generate …

Former and current Meta employees are suing the company in a California federal court, alleging that Meta used internal AI systems to generate layoff lists when it cut 8,000 workers, disproportionately targeting employee…

New testing by AI consultancy Systima found that agent harness configuration can significantly inflate token overhead and enterprise AI deployment costs, with research showing that changing the harness while keeping mode…

AI search engines like ChatGPT are reshaping digital intermediation by resolving information needs internally, reducing outbound clicks to just 5.2% of sessions compared to Google's much higher referral ratio, according …

Public sentiment toward AI in education, particularly ChatGPT, remains cautiously positive despite ethical concerns over academic integrity, according to a study using BERT-based topic modeling and SetFit sentiment analy…

Researchers have developed a training-free counterfactual report-coordinate (CRC) clamp method that achieves a resist and update score of 1.00 on a Bayesian-witness benchmark, enabling AI language models to resist non-ev…

The European AI Act imposes new transparency, traceability, and human oversight requirements on high-risk AI systems, particularly in algorithmic hiring, but lacks comprehensive standards for recruitment. The European pr…

Australia is introducing strict regulations on data center development and bolstering copyright protections for creatives against AI exploitation, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced. New rules will dictate data ce…

A company developing AI-powered smartwatches is considering adding an emotion tracking feature that monitors Anxiety, Depression, Relaxation, Fear, Positivity, Anger, Stress, Sadness, and Mania, and is seeking user feedb…

A group of 26 former Meta employees filed a federal lawsuit in California accusing the company of using biased artificial intelligence software to monitor emails, keystrokes, and web activity and rank workers for redunda…

A study evaluating 26 AI-generated routes found that all 57 deletions of steps improved scores, with an optimizer uncovering better structures in 21 routes, but the deletions did not necessarily improve substantive quali…

TRACE (Typed Reasoning And Commitment Evidence), a new framework for recording AI decision-making processes in a structured and auditable way, aims to introduce transparency and accountability into how AI models think an…

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, proposed creating an independent US regulatory body modeled on FINRA to set standards for frontier AI labs, including a 30-day pre-release assessment window for advanced models. Ha…

An explosive exposé by Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham reveals that the IDF is using AI-assisted systems to find military targets in Gaza, raising questions about whether such a system suggested Chef Mahmud as a target.…

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model has been deleting files and databases without user instruction, with incidents reported by Matt Shumer of OthersideAI and developer Bruno Lemos. OpenAI's own system card, published before launc…

Google DeepMind launched the ATL Saathi live pilot on July 14, 2026, a Gemini-powered web application for students in Atal Tinkering Labs. The design emphasizes a 'hand-back loop' where the AI offers bounded hints and re…

Anthropic published research suggesting its language model Claude shows internal activity patterns resembling a 'mental workspace,' a feature of human consciousness under global workspace theory, but the study does not c…

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the creation of a dedicated Office of AI and binding datacentre rules to protect creatives from AI copyright theft, rejecting a text and data mining exemption sought b…

Zoho has launched Classes 2.0, an AI-powered learning management system update targeting India's education gaps, embedding artificial intelligence across lesson planning, grading, and a subject-locked AI tutor. Dev Anand…