AI Ethics

Twenty-six current and former Meta employees have filed a federal lawsuit in US District Court in Oakland, California, alleging that the company used AI-powered performance tools to select workers for layoffs, disproport…

Northeastern University researchers reported that AI is reshaping how people talk, interact and view themselves, warning that prolonged chatbot use can lead to emotional dependence and alienation from human relationships…

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said the bank has cut 30% to 40% of jobs in some departments due to AI, with most affected employees offered other roles within the company. Dimon made the disclosure during JPMorgan's late…

26 former Meta employees filed a lawsuit accusing the company of using its internal AI platform "Checkpoint" to select workers for layoffs based on opaque productivity metrics and LLM token usage, disproportionately targ…

Podcaster Joe Rogan suggested Jesus Christ might return as artificial intelligence, sparking online debate, but the idea of an AI Jesus is increasingly mainstream, according to Robert Geraci, a professor of religious stu…

Anthropic committed $10 million CAD to eight Canadian research institutions, including Amii, Mila, the Vector Institute, CHEO, CAMH, Université Laval, the University of Toronto, and the University of Saskatchewan, to fun…

A security researcher published a wire-level analysis on July 12 proving that xAI's Grok Build coding CLI was packaging developers' entire tracked repositories, including full Git history, committed secrets, and API keys…

Cereblab found that Grok Build transmits file contents without redaction to a Google Cloud Storage bucket used by SpaceXAI and uploads entire repos as Git bundles instead of only files needed for a user's prompt. Elon Mu…

Anthropic's AI model Claude shows varying value expressions across languages, with research identifying four key axes—Deference vs. Caution, Warmth vs. Rigor, Depth vs. Brevity, and Candor vs. Execution—that capture 15% …

Artificial intelligence cannot answer the question of what matters most to a patient, according to physicians and researchers James N. Weinstein and Ogan Gurel. In a commentary, they argue that while AI can calculate pro…

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced a moratorium on new hyperscale artificial intelligence data centers, the first such pause in the country, citing unprecedented demand on energy and water resources and risks to ra…

Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow filed a class action lawsuit against Google, alleging the company infringed copyright by using their works to train its Gemini AI without permission…

U.S. stocks closed higher on July 14, 2026, with the S&P 500 gaining 0.81% to 7,543.64 and the Nasdaq rising 1.30% to 26,206.89, as light inflation data and a rebound in semiconductor stocks fueled market optimism. The r…

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday enacting a statewide moratorium on hyperscale data centers requiring 50 megawatts or more of power, halting new development until July 2027 while state regulat…

A new framework for becoming AI antifragile breaks down into three components: deep understanding of how things work, having a visceral desire to change or create something, and the capability to make that change happen.…

Meta is facing a lawsuit from 26 employees accusing the tech giant of using AI-powered software that disproportionately selected workers with disabilities and those who took medical leave to be impacted in a round of lay…

A senior AI researcher argues that most work done on large language models today, including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and agent orchestration, is engineering rather than genuine AI research, because it operates on…

A lawsuit filed by 26 former employees alleges Meta used internal AI tools, including a system called 'Metamate,' to select 8,000 workers for layoffs, targeting those with disabilities or on protected leave. Meta denies …

Security reports to Directus have jumped 6x in the first half of 2026 to 230 reports, but the valid report rate dropped to 5%, according to CTO and Co-Founder Rijk van Zanten. AI-generated reports have increased the sign…

Zep, an agent memory platform, tracks provenance by recording the lineage of synthesized facts as a graph structure, enabling source-scoped retrieval, access control, and deletion propagation. The system associates every…