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Delaware is advancing multiple AI-related legal proposals, including HB 390, which would require employers to disclose AI use in hiring and provide a human review option for adverse decisions. A Delaware law firm is seek…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 942, the AI Transparency Act, requiring generative-AI providers with over 1,000,000 monthly users to offer a free AI-detection tool and embed latent provenance disclosures in AI…
Mississippi has no state-specific AI law, with federal laws applying and the state monitoring federal AI Act developments. The Mississippi AI Task Force is considering data center regulations and local control, while a M…
Ohio has adopted voluntary AI principles, with a mandatory framework expected by 2027, as state Reps. Williams and Klopfenstein introduced legislation to combat AI-generated child sexual abuse material. Meanwhile, an Ohi…
Over 347 billion emails are sent daily, with AI-generated cold outreach growing exponentially as tools like GPT-4, Instantly, and Apollo eliminate the writing bottleneck, enabling senders to scale from 50 to 5,000 person…
A security researcher using Hacktron's pentest tool discovered that PostHog launched Playwright Chromium with `--no-sandbox` for heatmap screenshots, then used Anthropic's Claude to write an exploit for V8 n-day CVE-2026…
Banks are adopting AI agents for Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) investigations, with a governed architecture that automates evidence assembly while keeping human judgment on decisions. The archi…
Mega Crit co-founder Casey Yano explained that Slay the Spire 2 used deliberately rough, hand-drawn placeholder art instead of AI-generated placeholders to clearly communicate the game's Early Access state and preserve a…
Legal AI tools built on coding-agent scaffolding fail to meet the evidentiary and workflow requirements of legal practice, argues Alan Yahya in a technical critique. Yahya calls for purpose-built legal AI that grounds ev…
Hinge founder Justin McLeod has raised $18 million from Match Group, FirstMark Capital and Pace Capital for Overtone, a voice-first dating startup that uses AI conversation instead of profiles and swiping. McLeod, who st…
Maincode has launched Matilda, an AI assistant designed and deployed on Australian infrastructure, now available in open beta. The company says Matilda is built to reflect Australian cultural standards, safety expectatio…
Twenty-six Meta employees are suing the company, alleging it used artificial intelligence systems to systematically target workers on protected medical and family leave during its May layoff of roughly 8,000 people. The …
A new report from human rights nonprofit Witness warns that the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a content-credentialing network backed by OpenAI, Meta, YouTube, LinkedIn, and TikTok, could be we…
Pop star Lorde told a crowd at the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid that Meta's AI glasses are "not sexy" and urged people not to buy them, citing concerns about reality and privacy. Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses have sold ove…
OpenAI is building a moveable, screen-free smart speaker with a camera, environmental sensors, and motorized parts, designed as an AI companion for the home, Bloomberg reported Monday. The device, priced between $200 and…
A group of 26 anonymous Meta employees filed a lawsuit in federal court in Oakland on Monday, alleging that the company's use of AI systems to select employees for layoffs disproportionately targeted those on protected f…
OpenAI's first hardware device will be a screenless smart speaker with motorized moving parts and a camera, acting as an AI companion, according to a Bloomberg report. The device, designed by former Apple designer Jony I…
George Hotz, founder of tinygrad and comma.ai, published a July 12th blog post arguing that AI doom rhetoric is being used to justify high valuations for frontier AI labs, while the actual progress of LLMs, coding agents…
SpaceXAI, the AI division of SpaceX, operates 59 unpermitted natural gas turbines near Memphis, Tennessee, disproportionately impacting Black communities, according to a Reuters report. The turbines power the Colossus 2 …
A federal grand jury is investigating a network of U.S. nonprofits linked to Shanghai-based Neville Roy Singham, who has channeled more than $285 million into organizations that a new Bitcoin Policy Institute report says…