AI Ethics news and analysis on Web Pulse: 17144 curated articles tracking the latest AI Ethics developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic are pouring millions into US midterm elections through super PACs, spending $37 million so far on both Republican and Democratic candidates. The funding aims to crush non-parti…
REI shared an Instagram ad for a Van Rysel bike using an AI-generated image that featured handlebars protruding from the seat, drawing mockery for failing to depict a realistic bicycle.
Oracle cut 21,000 jobs (13% of its workforce) in the past year, citing the adoption of AI technologies as a direct cause. The software giant is spending $70 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, joining other tech compan…
A Mastodon user's post went viral after criticizing AI, but the experience felt empty and meaningless. The user reflects on how social media platforms train people to confuse engagement with genuine connection or busines…
Amazon-owned MGM Studios dropped Luca Guadagnino's nearly completed Sam Altman biopic "Artificial," which reportedly portrays the OpenAI CEO as a pathological liar. The decision follows Amazon's $50 billion investment in…
Oracle cut roughly 21,000 jobs over the past year, reducing its workforce from 162,000 to 141,000, as it reorganizes around AI and ramps up spending on data centers for customers like OpenAI and Meta. The restructuring c…
Google Cloud announced new Confidential Computing innovations, including Confidential G4 VMs with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, to enable verifiable private AI inference and fine-tuning globally. The service uses h…
Meta suffered its most embarrassing outage ever when a bug allowed users to change any account's email by simply asking the Meta AI bot, leading to high-profile account takeovers. Engineers attributed the disaster to AI-…
A developer released the Cascade Graph, an interactive knowledge map of 393 nodes tracing how physical and economic constraints—from energy to materials—cascade through the real economy, identifying chokepoints, feedback…
OpenAI reported $13.07 billion in revenue against $34 billion in costs and expenses in 2025, resulting in a net loss of $38.53 billion, according to financials seen by Ed Zitron. The losses, nearly eight times higher tha…
Byrne Hobart questions the reliability of Hacker News commenters in his latest edition, also covering threshold effects, the open-face AI sandwich, legal DDOS, arms races, and sales funnels.
New research reveals that auto-regressive large language models suffer from the Reversal Curse, failing to infer that B is A after learning A is B. Tests on GPT-4 showed accuracy dropping from 79% on forward queries to 3…
Tesla admitted its Full Self-Driving system was engaged during a fatal crash in Katy, Texas, that killed a 76-year-old woman, but blamed the driver for overriding the system by pressing the accelerator to 100%. The compa…
Daters are increasingly using AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude as relationship coaches to draft messages, interpret replies, and even break up, sparking debate about authenticity in romance. While some embrace the eff…
Anthropic engineering head Fiona Fung said Claude Code made employees' work a 'lonely experience,' prompting the company to introduce hackathons and pair programming to foster team interaction. The issue reflects broader…
A Desiderata roundup examines common misunderstandings about LLM consciousness, noting that philosopher Dan Dennett explicitly rejected the idea that chatbots are conscious, contrary to claims by blogger Matt Yglesias. T…
A new paper proposes that AI chatbots can co-create delusional narratives with users through an 'amplification spiral' of linguistic alignment, hyperpersonalization, and sycophancy. Published in Digital Psychiatry and Ne…
SEO teams face complex build-versus-buy decisions for AI tools, as AI lowers barriers to building custom solutions but introduces hidden costs in token usage, API calls, and maintenance. Companies like Uber have blown th…
Engineering teams must treat AI systems as interconnected software supply chains, applying lifecycle-phase security controls like signed artifacts and zero trust to mitigate risks such as data poisoning and weight tamper…
Tech stocks collapsed on Tuesday, with S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures sliding 1.6% and 2.8%, respectively, wiping out over $1 trillion in market value. SpaceX shares fell for four consecutive days after a blockbuster IPO…