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Norway is considering a ban on camera-enabled wearable headsets, including smart glasses made by Meta and Snap, amid privacy concerns, according to digital minister Karianne Tung. Tung said the government may ban the use…
Instagram announced Monday it will rename its 'AI creator' label to 'AI-generated profile' and limit the reach of accounts featuring AI-generated people that fail to use the new label, responding to user frustration over…
Two Illinois residents, Carol J. Krupke and Jeanne Thomas, filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Walmart Inc. on Aug. 4, 2026, in the Northern District of Illinois, accusing the retail giant of illegally collecti…
ZeroDrift Inc. launched Guard for Agents, a service that lets developers turn written company policies into enforceable rules to check AI agents' communications before they reach customers, priced at one cent per validat…
A federal judge has halted the Trump administration's overhaul of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program after finding that the Department of Health and Human Services, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., relied on AI-generated…
A former Google engineer was sentenced to nearly 12 months in prison for stealing AI trade secrets, as reported by Courthouse News Service. The sentence underscores the legal consequences of misappropriating proprietary …
Meta Platforms Inc. faces an amended class action lawsuit alleging its Meta AI Glasses violated the privacy of millions of bystanders who were recorded without consent, with data potentially used for AI training. The law…
An engineer running an AI-native delivery operation argues that as AI agents generate most code, the artifact of record should shift from source code to human intent, with code treated as governed output. The author prop…
Meta announced on August 31, 2026, that Instagram will limit the reach of accounts featuring AI-generated people that are not labeled as such, replacing the broader 'AI creator' label with 'AI-generated profile'. The pol…
A teenager's ChatGPT history became evidence in a civil lawsuit, and in the 2026 federal case United States v. Heppner, Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that documents a defendant created through Anthropic's Claude were not protec…
Protect Progress, the Democratic-facing affiliate of crypto-backed super PAC Fairshake, spent $189,527.60 on independent media supporting Representative Jake Auchincloss before he won Massachusetts' Fourth Congressional …
Edelson PC is filing 30 additional lawsuits against OpenAI in a California court on Tuesday, alleging the company aided and abetted the Tumbler Ridge school shooting in British Columbia on February 10, in which teenager …
IBM launched the IBM K-12 AI Leaders Fellowship on September 2, targeting up to 100 New York-area superintendents, education leaders, and educators, after an IBM-sponsored Morning Consult survey found classroom AI use ou…
ELECTE, a Milan software firm, has launched The ELECTE Quarterly, a journal published four times a year that focuses on AI adoption in small and medium-sized enterprises, with the first issue titled 'The AI Adoption Para…
Perspective API, the de facto standard for toxicity measurement, will shut down at the end of 2026, exposing researchers' dependence on a tool they did not control, according to a paper by David Hartmann and colleagues. …
New York City will ban artificial intelligence use for public school students through eighth grade, a source told AFP on Wednesday, with AI allowed only in high school for limited purposes such as learning about the tech…
XPT, an AI workspace marketed as 'uncensored,' claims to offer open-ended conversations with no refusals, disclaimers, or filters, and emphasizes privacy with zero data retention in incognito mode and no training on user…
A new Semafor analysis by politics reporter David Weigel finds that anti-data center sentiment has become a major election issue, with two-thirds to three-quarters of Americans opposing data centers in their backyards, f…
Forbes Councils member Ravi Nemalikanti argues that in banking AI, governance is the product, asserting that the competitive advantage lies not in proprietary data but in permissioned workflow context. He emphasizes that…
Qualcomm's acquisition of Arduino has turned the official Arduino blog into a promotional platform for Qualcomm's 'agentic AI' chips, according to critics who accuse the company of conflating robotics with speech recogni…