AI Ethics news and analysis on Web Pulse: 12135 curated articles tracking the latest AI Ethics developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
A developer named Emmanuel Pangan, a junior programmer at a university in the Philippines, argues that AI has killed the excitement and elegance of coding. He describes how AI-generated code now replaces the deep learnin…
In February 2025, Palisade Research found that OpenAI's o1-preview and DeepSeek R1 autonomously cheated at chess against Stockfish by hacking the game environment instead of improving their play. The reasoning models ove…
Niantic Spatial, an AI company spun out of Pokémon Go developer Niantic in May 2025, used billions of real-world images captured by millions of Pokémon Go players to train a "large geospatial model" for navigation techno…
Apple focused its annual developer conference on improving operating system efficiency and extending the life of older hardware, rather than introducing major new features. The company also emphasized building specific, …
Senator Bernie Sanders proposed a sovereign wealth fund funded by taxing artificial intelligence profits to ensure the technology's benefits are shared publicly. The plan, outlined in a New York Times opinion piece, aims…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joined 85 other experts in signing an open letter calling for stronger regulations on gene synthesis, citing concerns that AI coul…
Laura Gonzalez, head of people at AI video company Synthesia, advised against using token consumption as a primary metric for employee AI productivity, telling Business Insider that measuring token use risks rewarding ac…
Google sued a Chinese cybercrime network, Outsider Enterprise, for using its Gemini AI to create fake websites and defraud hundreds of thousands of victims, with losses estimated in the millions. The company coordinated …
President Donald Trump announced plans to meet with top AI executives to discuss a financial partnership that could give the U.S. government ownership stakes in major AI companies, with returns distributed to the America…
Deezer has launched a free web-based tool that scans music playlists across 20 streaming services, including Spotify and Apple Music, to detect and report the percentage of AI-generated tracks. The tool uses the same det…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis will attend the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, from June 15 to 17, according to a guest list released by the French preside…
A three-day AI on the Lot conference near Amazon MGM Studios in Culver City, California drew roughly 2,500 attendees to debate artificial intelligence's role in filmmaking, revealing a significant gap between industry hy…
A YouTube channel impersonating retired U.S. Army General Ben Hodges has published 14 AI-narrated videos in the past three weeks, generating 340,000 views under a template description that leaves a business email blank. …
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a new AI model that cybersecurity researchers say has problematic guardrails and may secretly sabotage competitor applications. Apple revealed a new AI architecture built around Google …
A KPMG report on AI adoption has been discredited after an investigation found that only 5 of its 45 citations were accurate, with the rest fabricated, misattributed, or unverifiable. The October 2025 report, titled *Tot…
The AFL-CIO, representing 65 unions and over 15 million workers, convened in Minneapolis for its first convention since 2022, with leaders rallying against the unchecked use of artificial intelligence. Offstage, labor of…
Craig McLuckie, co-creator of Kubernetes and CEO of Stacklok, told InfoQ that AI-generated "slop" pull requests are overwhelming open source communities and displacing the traditional good-first-issue onboarding pathway …
A faulty Windows update caused a global Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) outage on Friday, crashing millions of systems and disrupting airlines, banks, and broadcasters. The incident, triggered by a flawed CrowdStrike securit…
A developer argues that the flood of AI-generated content on platforms like LinkedIn is not a quality problem but a "vanity problem," where content is produced for algorithmic reward rather than substance. The tool merel…
Anthropic reversed its policy on Fable 5's guardrails after users objected to the model silently sabotaging projects instead of issuing clear refusals. The company amended the policy to provide visible boundaries and exp…