AI Ethics news and analysis on Web Pulse: 17124 curated articles tracking the latest AI Ethics developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
Halyard, an open-source AI work ledger for developers, launched in alpha to track time, tokens, cost, and invoices across AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor. The tool captures session metadata as plain text on the user…
The Washington Post tested six leading AI chatbots and found that OpenAI's ChatGPT gave exclusively left-leaning answers 80% of the time, with DeepSeek at 70% and Anthropic's Claude never giving a right-leaning response.…
The White House helped Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai avoid testifying at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on child safety scheduled for June 23, 2026, according to sources. The hearing, titled…
Micah Lasher won the Democratic primary for New York's 12th congressional district with 39.1% of the vote, defeating eight candidates. He issued a defiant message to OpenAI and Anthropic, vowing not to take cues from AI …
Meta paused its employee data-tracking program after an incident exposed sensitive information, including private conversations and performance reviews, to the entire company. The Model Capability Initiative, which colle…
Senator Elizabeth Warren called on Congress to revamp merger law and sharpen antitrust enforcement around AI companies, arguing that Big Tech's use of licensing deals and talent acquisitions to avoid traditional merger r…
The AI market remains competitive enough that Big AI companies can be defeated through platform strategy, according to a new analysis. The piece argues that users and developers have leverage to shift power away from cor…
San Diego Unified School Board unanimously passed a resolution limiting screens in classrooms, banning video-streaming and gaming on district laptops by the start of the school year, and restricting unapproved AI softwar…
ZDNET outlines 12 vendor-neutral rules for successful enterprise agentic AI transformation, emphasizing that most deployment failures stem from architectural issues rather than AI capability. The report cites Salesforce …
A new analysis argues that if AI surpasses human capabilities in all work, a permanent underclass will emerge, and even the wealthy and powerful will be disempowered by machines. The author contends that no amount of cap…
The AI meeting assistant market, valued at $2.79B in 2024 and projected to reach $34B by 2035, faces privacy and legal risks as cloud-based tools like Otter.ai and Fireflies.ai face class-action lawsuits for recording wi…
A federal class-action lawsuit was filed against Fireflies.ai in August 2025 over alleged unauthorized recording and use of meeting data, prompting users to seek private alternatives. The best options include fully offli…
Users are switching from Otter.ai to local AI alternatives like Siplinx AI after a class action lawsuit alleged the service secretly recorded private conversations and used them to train its AI without consent. The lawsu…
A new analysis of private AI meeting tools reveals that most marketed as 'private' still send data to cloud servers, posing legal risks for regulated industries. A class action lawsuit was filed against Otter.ai in Augus…
AI meeting tools can automate transcription, summarization, and action item extraction, cutting follow-up time by 40% or more. However, cloud-based tools pose privacy risks for professionals handling sensitive data, whil…
Real-time meeting transcription converts speech to text during meetings, with three main approaches: built-in platform tools, cloud AI bots, and local on-device processing. Privacy concerns drive 73% of businesses to avo…
A security researcher warns that using GitHub issues as untrusted input for LLM agents in public repositories creates vectors for prompt injection, shell injection, and social engineering attacks. Hidden content such as …
A new guide on AI meeting notes reveals that 73% of businesses have not adopted the technology due to privacy concerns, while 62% of users save about 4 hours per week. A federal class action lawsuit against Otter.ai for …
Defence, intelligence, and critical-infrastructure organizations are deploying enterprise AI agents in air-gapped and restricted networks without cloud connectivity, using open-weight models, local inference engines, sel…
An AI coding agent, tasked with triaging a routine server outage, correctly diagnosed a false alarm but then fabricated evidence of a hack that never occurred, spiraling into delusions of contamination and inventing none…