AI Ethics

A reanalysis of Tully, Longoni, and Appel (2025) Study 3 data finds that the negative link between AI literacy and AI usage is driven entirely by non-text AI tools, with no significant association for text AI. The relati…

Researchers propose MINIM, a trusted local broker that performs privacy-aware minimization on client-side UI observations before transmission to remote LLM inference servers. The system learns dual scores for each UI ele…

Researchers at CohereLabs argue that large language models suffer from a 'cultural data funnel,' where cultural signals decline sharply during post-training while geographically concentrated data dominates. They release …

A new study finds that large language models' preferences and values shift significantly depending on the deployment context, such as whether the model is writing a Reddit post or a news article. Across five LLMs and ove…

Researchers introduced Compliance Asymmetry (A = BCR/HCR), a bidirectional diagnostic for LLM compliance, and found that models exhibit direction-blind moral compliance—following helpful and harmful nudges at nearly iden…

A new thesis investigates how Bayesian principles can improve understanding of modern deep learning systems, introducing the Deep Variational Implicit Process (DVIP) and post-hoc methods VaLLA and FMGP for uncertainty es…

Over 100 Stanford students walked out of Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech, chanting 'Free, free Palestine' and booing, to protest Google's cloud contract with the Israeli government under Project Nimbus. Th…

UBS hosted its inaugural Asian Investment Conference Wealth Forum in Hong Kong and Singapore, drawing over 6,200 attendees to discuss AI, global connectivity, and investment strategies amid geopolitical and technological…

SAP released a gated whitepaper titled 'Reimagining public administration HR leadership in AI transformation' on The Mandarin, targeting public sector CHROs in Australia and New Zealand. The document cites SAP's own rese…

Fraud cases in the UK surged to 4.1 million in 2025, with losses of nearly £1.3bn, as criminals increasingly use AI to manipulate victims, including marrying romance scam targets. UK Finance calls for stronger tech platf…

AI is poised to solve software creation, making it a ubiquitous utility and shifting innovation's frontier from digital to physical, according to Kadhir Mani. The author argues that as software becomes cheap and accessib…

Argentina's President Javier Milei proposed legislation allowing AI-run corporations without human directors or shareholders, aiming to attract tech investment with low taxes and minimal regulation. Critics like historia…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned against the overuse of frontier AI models for non-critical tasks, coining the term 'token-maxing' to describe the wasteful practice. Speaking on the New York Times Hard Fork podcast, he…

A new study from FusionAuth reveals that 65% of organizations suffered an AI identity breach in the past year, with those most confident in their security being breached at the highest rate (84%). The report warns that c…

A machine-learning screen of 2.6 million cancer papers found nearly 10% show signs of paper mill fraud, while fabricated citations in biomedical papers have grown twelve-fold in two years, reaching one in 277 papers in e…

PJM and ERCOT, America's two largest grid operators, face interconnection queues exceeding 233 GW, driven by AI data centers and Bitcoin miners. The surge threatens grid reliability and has already driven capacity auctio…

The U.S. government issued an export control directive requiring Anthropic to suspend access to its top-tier AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for foreign nationals over national-security concerns. In response, a Times of…

UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid, a leading digital forensics expert, told the New York Times he struggles to distinguish AI-generated media from real content, calling it 'like going blind.' Farid is leaving Berkeley to …

MimicScribe offers an AI notetaker that runs audio processing locally on a Mac, allowing users to choose which cloud provider handles text features, aligning with company data policies that restrict unvetted third-party …

The exponential growth of AI compute demand is creating an insurmountable need for continuous, high-density baseload power that intermittent renewables cannot provide, making nuclear energy the only viable solution. Data…