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South Korean prosecutors have summarily indicted a man in his 40s for using AI-powered glasses to cheat on a national qualification exam, the country's first such case. The Gwangju District Prosecutors' Office indicted h…
Japan's Justice Ministry has submitted an initial draft to an expert panel proposing legal protections for celebrities' voices and likenesses against unauthorized AI use, after more than 43,000 images and videos were fou…
A growing body of evidence shows that AI is not a plug-and-play solution, requiring customized integration and continuous adaptation rather than off-the-shelf installation. Leaders must invest in specialized talent, fost…
A new framework proposes making credible deals with scheming AI to reduce takeover risk, offering valuable incentives in exchange for revealing misalignment. The approach relies on verifiable mechanisms like on-chain sma…
Samsung this week began requiring Galaxy Watch and Health app users to consent to AI training on their health data—including prescriptions, diagnoses, and menstrual cycle records—or lose cloud sync and have years of medi…
Envision CEO Lei Zhang announced at VivaTech in Paris that AI's biggest bottleneck is no longer silicon but energy, as Goldman Sachs forecasts US datacenter power demand to hit 31 GW by 2025 and 66 GW by 2027. Envision's…
A community benefits agreement for AI data centres in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was presented to residents only 48 hours before a city council vote, according to local organizing group Lancaster Stands Up. The number of a…
A study of more than 26,000 middle and high school students in central China found that using AI homework tools boosted homework scores by 18% but cut exam scores by 20%, with the negative effect on high-stakes entrance …
Envision founder and CEO Lei Zhang argued at VivaTech in Paris that the binding constraint for AI has shifted from chips to energy, with US datacenter power demand projected to reach 31 GW in 2025 and 66 GW by 2027, acco…
Check Point Research's Annual AI Security Report 2026 finds that AI has evolved from a development aid to a live attack operator, now running intrusions in espionage campaigns and criminal breaches, including against Mex…
A developer renamed their protocol from ACP to ATC (Agent Trust Card) after discovering IBM/BeeAI's existing ACP protocol. ATC is described as an identity, trust, encryption, and payment layer for AI agents, akin to SSL …
Simon Fraser University computing science professor Angel Chang is leading a planned research collaboration with Vancouver-based startup Caseway AI to examine whether making 100 million court decisions searchable by AI s…
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano criticized the school for its slow response to an alleged mass AI cheating scandal, reporting that after moving exams online, average midterm grades soared to 96 and 4…
The FBI reported roughly 59,000 romance scam victims in 2024, with generative AI making scams more convincing through deepfake videos and voice clones, according to The Women's Tech & Telecom Partnership's 2026 Impact Re…
More than 200 economists, AI researchers, and Nobel laureates signed a statement warning that AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years, driving an economic transformation larger than the Industrial Re…
Chinese AI models from DeepSeek, MiniMax, Tencent, and Xiaomi have seized OpenRouter's top five positions, offering 4–8x cost advantages over comparable US models and triggering real production migrations. Microsoft at B…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Palantir CEO Alex Karp both warned in the same week that enterprise data is at risk of being absorbed into AI vendors' intellectual property, as AI models learn from user interactions. A s…
A blogger has coined the term 'Turing Window' to describe the brief period when AI-generated writing goes unnoticed by readers, arguing that recognizable AI-isms such as the 'It's not X, it's Y' pattern erode trust and c…
More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, signed an open letter organized by Stanford University's digital economy lab on Monday, demanding that policymakers and technology leaders immedi…
AirCloset CTO Ryan Tsuji outlines a six-layer PII protection design for the company's internal AI platform, cortex, that reconciles PII protection with AI searchability. The design uses column-level access control, ETL D…