AI Ethics

OpenAI has offered the US government a 5% equity stake valued at $42.6 billion, part of a broader regulatory framework proposed by CEO Sam Altman to preempt AI regulation. The move has already impacted crypto markets, wi…

The internet faces a new naming and trust problem with AI agents, mirroring the early DNS era. Security incidents, such as an AI agent rewriting its own security policy at a Fortune 50 company, highlight the urgent need …

Chinese authorities are considering restricting foreign access to the country's most advanced AI models, including unreleased ones, in talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai. The move would reverse China's current open-…

Ekonomer varnar att USA:s fokus på AI-investeringar skapar ekonomisk obalans, med en svag arbetsmarknad och sjunkande arbetskraftsdeltagande. Professor Brett House vid Columbia University och Ben Harris vid Brookings Ins…

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for an AI Child Safety Pledge at the Global Dialogue On AI Governance in Geneva, urging companies to prove AI systems accessible to children are safe. He warned that unregulat…

A study of the top 10,000 websites' robots.txt files found that 38% of GPTBot rules were written in the last quarter of 2023, following the crawler's launch and the New York Times lawsuit. Most sites have since added rul…

Relevyn, a startup building AI detection tools, discovered that ChatGPT uses a consistent set of hedging phrases—like 'I don't have information about'—when it lacks knowledge of a brand. This reveals two distinct problem…

Security researchers have identified JadePuffer, the first documented case of fully agentic ransomware driven end-to-end by AI. The campaign exploited a vulnerability in Langflow to gain access, steal credentials, and de…

Wall Street suffered major losses on Tuesday as AI stocks tumbled and oil prices jumped, with the S&P 500 falling 0.6% and the Nasdaq dropping 1.2%. The downturn was sparked by a 6.9% plunge in Samsung Electronics shares…

Workers are increasingly using AI to communicate with each other, leading to absurd situations where AI-generated messages are sent back and forth between colleagues. One employee told Fortune she believes her boss's AI …

A new analysis of AI safety risks categorizes threats by human and machine intentions, arguing that overly restrictive safety measures could prevent AI from achieving beneficial outcomes. The piece warns that an AI incap…

China's Ministry of Commerce has held meetings with Alibaba, ByteDance, and startup Z.ai to discuss limiting overseas access to the country's most capable AI models, including open-weight systems like Alibaba's Qwen and …

A draft Treasury Department report warns that an artificial intelligence bubble could jeopardize millions of Americans' retirement savings if the industry suffers a major downturn, as AI companies have become deeply embe…

Norm Ai raised $120 million at a $1.2 billion valuation on July 7, 2026, led by Khosla Ventures, to expand its legal and compliance AI agents. The company claims institutions managing over $30 trillion in assets use its …

AI-native startups are hiring 15% fewer entry-level workers than conventional startups, favoring senior employees with advanced degrees from prestigious institutions, according to Harvard Business School and INSEAD resea…

A developer released Atrophy, a command-line app that measures whether AI assistance is eroding users' unaided coding skills by regularly assigning coding exercises without AI help and tracking skill ratings over time. T…

OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude differ in behavior due to distinct architectural choices made by their developers, including decisions on model density, training methods, and post-training align…

A growing number of Americans are using AI chatbots for financial advice, but a 2025 survey found 19% lost over $100 by following such guidance. Finance professor Dr. Jain warns that chatbots' confident, fluent answers o…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked seven U.S. tech companies for information about their military AI contracts and demanded the Pentagon release full contracts, citing concerns over opaque AI arrangements and autonomous weapons…

Security researchers uncovered a hidden tracking code in Anthropic's Claude Code AI tool that monitored users in China, prompting Anthropic to delete the code after public outcry. Anthropic engineer Thariq Shihipar confi…