AI Ethics

Swiss startup Prem AI is raising $100 million in Series A funding at a $500 million valuation to provide hedge funds and law firms with private, self-hosted AI infrastructure. The company launched an encrypted AI workspa…

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos proposed moving polluting industries to the Moon to protect Earth and accelerate economic growth, starting with data centers for artificial intelligence. Bezos believes AI will create labor shor…

Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which would impose a one-time 50% stock tax on major AI firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI to create a public fund potentially worth $7 trillion.…

A new analysis using Epoch's ECI metric shows that open-weight AI models continue to trail closed models on the frontier, with the gap persisting over time. The analysis, based on item response theory, provides a more nu…

Higgsfield, a San Francisco AI video startup, has reached a $500 million revenue run rate, up from $50 million last September, and is cash-flow positive. The company aims to rival AI coding platforms like Cursor and Lova…

Sponsor-generated content on POLITICO explores building trust in Europe during the AI era, produced independently of the editorial department.

NatWest CEO Paul Thwaite admitted that artificial intelligence will replace some banking jobs, joining other bank chiefs like Standard Chartered's Bill Winters and HSBC's Georges Elhedery in acknowledging AI's impact on …

A developer outlines a security model for AI agents that access employee data, emphasizing three principles: separating read and write agents, generating immutable audit records for every query, and scoping inference to …

AI tools amplify the output of software engineers, but without strong engineering skills, they produce low-quality code, or 'slop,' that creates technical debt. To avoid becoming an 'AI slop cannon,' developers must focu…

Honrly, a local-first, self-hostable interview-integrity tool, has released its source code, demonstrating that AI cheating tools like Cluely and Interview Coder are easily detectable. The tool scans running processes in…

OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT's memory to build a profile from past chats, including entire chat history and implicit preferences, but old or irrelevant details can distort future AI answers. The feature, called 'dreaming,…

Martin Puchner argues that writers' resistance to AI overlooks the shared foundation of language between humans and machines, urging a reconsideration of the relationship.

Meta's Oversight Board will review a case involving an AI-generated video of a female campaigner that falsely depicted her giving health advice, after the company left the post up. The video, which manipulated a news int…

A Hacker News user warns that the rapid pace of AI development, termed 'tokenmaxxing,' resembles mass hypomania, with ideas being churned and built at unprecedented speed, potentially leading to societal dissociation.

G7 leaders met in Évian-les-Bains to discuss AI regulation and cooperation amid competition with China, hosting tech executives including Demis Hassabis, Arthur Mensch, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei for a working lunch. T…

Chinese sci-fi writer Hao Jingfang revealed that half of her latest book was written with AI, sparking debate over AI-generated literature. Hao stated readers cannot distinguish AI-written parts, while critics argue it u…

A founder claims to write 10,000 lines of code per day using AI, but critics argue this reflects a misguided focus on quantity over quality, producing buggy, unmaintainable code that undermines true engineering craftsman…

A developer discovered that Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, secretly stored 43 MB of conversation data, including code snippets, file paths, and even password queries, in local directories without user notification.…

Arizona's data center industry, the second-largest in the US, is consuming 1.5 GW of power and 385 million gallons of water annually, with projections of tripling electricity use and water consumption surging up to 3.8 b…

Warfare is decimating animal populations worldwide, with conflicts in Ukraine, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Sudan causing mass displacement, habitat destruction, and population crashes. A study of African wildlife found hum…