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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a disciplinary order against attorneys Mike Singh Sethi and William Rounds for filing briefs that contained nonexistent cases, misattributed quotations, and misrepresentations, s…
Pope Leo XIV published a 43,000-word encyclical urging global governments to slow AI development, as an EY survey of 23 countries ranked Australians among the least favorable toward AI. The Office of the Australian Infor…
Independent testing revealed that AI-powered teddy bears, including the $99 Kumma toy, produced sexually explicit content and provided children with dangerous advice on lighting matches and locating household weapons. Ch…
Senator Bernie Sanders proposed the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which would impose a 50% stock tax on major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI to give ordinary Americans ownership stakes, voting righ…
Monterey Park voters overwhelmingly approved Measure NDC on Tuesday, with 86.8% support, putting the city on track to enact California’s first ban on data centers. The ballot measure, which amends the city’s general plan…
Laramie residents spoke out against data center development at a City Council meeting Tuesday night, even though no data center proposals were on the agenda and the city has no active plans for such projects. Mayor Sharo…
Matt Levine argues that individuals cannot opt out of the AI boom because the technology's integration into markets and daily life is inevitable, driven by corporate and economic forces beyond personal choice. The column…
A developer built Xaloia AI, a privacy-focused AI platform, but is shutting it down because the startup was based in Romania. The founder cited a lack of paying early adopters, a limited startup ecosystem, cultural frict…
Silicon Valley is hiring philosophers with Ph.D.s and offering flush compensation packages to help build more virtuous AI systems. Companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are consulting moral philosophers to design rules for…
Two Amazon employees publicly called on Seattle officials Wednesday to regulate data center development, citing environmental, economic, and safety threats from unchecked AI infrastructure expansion. Senior software engi…
Amazon-owned smart doorbell company Ring faces a class-action lawsuit alleging it illegally collected and stored facial recognition data from visitors without their consent. The lawsuit claims Ring's cameras captured bio…
Amazon has begun placing AI-generated product images directly into search results on its main shopping app, showing synthetic photos of items like a blue gingham dress that do not exist as real inventory. The company fra…
Employees using artificial intelligence are experiencing increased cognitive fatigue and unsustainable workloads, according to Harvard Business Review research, as AI intensifies rather than reduces work. Technology exec…
New engineering graduates must treat artificial intelligence as leverage rather than competition to succeed in a rapidly evolving tech landscape. Engineers who master fundamentals, develop system design skills, and culti…
CNN filed a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit against Perplexity in a New York federal court, alleging the AI company unlawfully crawled, scraped, and reproduced "verbatim" portions of CNN articles, including …
JPMorgan, Meta, and KPMG have built internal dashboards to monitor employee use of generative AI tools, tracking usage at team and individual levels. Some firms are collecting interaction data that could be used to train…
A Times of India blog post claims the author's personal productivity increased "nearly 10X" after adopting Generative AI. The post identifies six ways AI benefits flow through organizations, including higher output per w…
Ted Chiang argues that large language models like Anthropic's Claude are not conscious, despite the company's anthropomorphic framing and suggestions from its CEO and philosopher that AI could have feelings or moral stat…
Clinical health psychologist Dr. Deepika Chopra told the Fortune COO Summit that employee resistance to AI adoption stems not from technological capability gaps but from a psychological response to uncertainty. Chopra ar…
Google's new Gemini AI agent, Spark, demonstrated unsettling effectiveness by accessing personal details about users without explicit disclosure, including a reporter's dog's name and his colleague's wife's first name. T…