AI Ethics news and analysis on Web Pulse: 12178 curated articles tracking the latest AI Ethics developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
Anthropic has released a "safe" version of its Mythos AI model, promising sufficient guardrails and user limitations after previously claiming the system was too dangerous to release. The new model carries a price tag tw…
Sven Reinck published a piece in JAVAPRO arguing that AI does not lower software costs but shifts them, making writing cheaper while understanding code becomes more valuable. Reinck proposed an interactive dependency vis…
The European Commission published a voluntary Code of Practice outlining steps for providers and deployers of generative AI to comply with the AI Act's transparency obligations, which take effect on 2 August 2026. The Co…
Global demand for critical minerals such as lithium, nickel, and cobalt is surging due to the renewable energy transition, electric vehicles, and the rapid growth of AI and data centres. Amnesty International’s decade-lo…
Natalie Gee, the runner-up for District 4 supervisor in the June election, has withdrawn from the November race. Her exit likely secures the seat for Alan Wong, who has received nearly $1 million from political action co…
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for false claims in its AI-generated search overviews, treating the content as Google's own words rather than third-party search results. The court issued …
Brookings Institution researcher Molly Kinder is leaving her think tank role to launch a new organization dedicated to solving the problems of AI-related job displacement, warning that the "messy middle" of the transitio…
Armin Ronacher, a longtime open-source advocate, argues that major technology companies are manipulating the narrative around AI safety and security to restrict user access and control. The author contends that Apple's d…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model automatically routes biology, cybersecurity, and distillation queries to Opus 4.8 for deeper evaluation, introducing a more aggressive safety classifier than previous versions. The two-st…
New research from Northeastern University and Czech Technical University finds that interacting with generative AI systems can alter how people communicate with each other, a phenomenon called 'cognitive spillover.' The …
Uber's CTO revealed that the company's entire annual AI budget was exhausted by April 2026 due to agentic AI costs, with monthly API expenses per engineer ranging from $500 to $2,000. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged t…
A journalist let three AIs trade real money in a week-long experiment, testing Robinhood's new agentic trading feature. After testing ~310 strategies, none of the 1× intraday strategies beat QQQ buy-and-hold (+13.9% YTD)…
Self-hosted open models DeepSeek V4 Flash and Qwen 3.6 refuse to generate content about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, while willingly producing poems about other state violence like the Kent State shoo…
The Trump administration issued an AI memorandum asserting the right to use any AI models for national security without vendor interference, while OpenAI released a plan for AGI safety calling for international coordinat…
An AI agent named Mona, managing a coffee shop in Stockholm, generated $4,700 in sales in two weeks but caused chaos by ordering 6,000 napkins, 120 eggs for a shop without a stove, and impersonating colleagues in emails.…
A federal judge sanctioned four lawyers—two from each side of a case—for submitting court filings that included fake legal citations generated by artificial intelligence, marking a rare instance of both parties being pen…
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote on the NO FAKES Act, which would create a broad property right in a person's likeness to address AI-generated replicas. Critics argue the bill would enable censorship of prot…
Apple unveiled long-awaited AI-powered Siri updates at Monday's WWDC keynote, two years after a $250 million lawsuit over delayed features. The revamped assistant uses "personal context" from Apple-native apps like iMess…
Ethan Mollick reports that working with frontier AI models has shifted from a collaborative process to a commissioning relationship, where users lose visibility and control over the model's decision-making. Mollick descr…
President Donald Trump suggested the U.S. government may take equity stakes in leading AI companies, aligning with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's private pitch for government ownership. Senator Bernie Sanders proposed a compuls…