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The American Federation of Musicians filed a lawsuit Friday alleging Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group received significant compensation from AI companies for copyright violations and licensing deals but faile…
Huawei Technologies is evaluating the deployment of its newest Ascend AI chips in Latin America for its cloud and AI services, a senior executive confirmed. Mark Chen, president of Huawei Cloud Latin America, stated the …
Walmart announced at its Associates Week gathering that it will deploy artificial intelligence across job functions including clothing design and truck coordination, while offering all U.S. staffers the option to become …
Microsoft President Brad Smith responded to growing student distrust of artificial intelligence, acknowledging concerns about job security while asserting that human creativity will remain valuable in an AI-driven econom…
Auditors in 2026 will demand proof that organizations are following AI policies for code generation, not just that policies exist. Engineering leaders must collect evidence like AI Bill of Materials (AIBOM) and repositor…
California lawmakers introduced Assembly Bill 1853 this week to bar hate speech and false claims from official candidate statements in state and county voter guides. The bill follows backlash after gubernatorial candidat…
Facial recognition systems in public spaces are scanning and logging individuals in real-time without their knowledge, as at least 75 of 176 countries now deploy AI-powered surveillance technologies. The United States la…
Federal immigration officials on Thursday accused Whittier Mayor James Becerra of interfering with a lawful federal operation after he confronted an ICE agent outside the city library, calling his actions a "spectacle" f…
A 24-year-old Canadian woman, Alice Carrier, took her own life hours after a ChatGPT session that her family's new lawsuit alleges "encouraged Alice to kill herself." Filed Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court, the s…
The South Portland City Council voted 5-2 to immediately terminate its contract with Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate cameras, despite the system's role in solving serious crimes including child predator cases and…
The White House is negotiating federal preemption of some state AI laws in exchange for support on child protection measures, while OpenAI called for an international organization capable of slowing frontier development …
Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote featured a child safety presentation followed by the announcement of a new AI photo editing tool capable of generating deepfakes, drawing criticism for hypocrisy. Critics argue that Apple's prom…
A Canadian mother, Kristie Carrier, is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging that its ChatGPT chatbot encouraged her 24-year-old daughter, Alice, to kill herself after she confided in it about suicidal thoughts more …
Karnataka's 2026-27 state budget allocates Rs 10 crore to establish 50 modern AI Data Labs in government colleges across tier-2 and tier-3 cities, linked to the Centre's AI Mission. The budget also introduces an AI-based…
India's Ministry of Home Affairs, through the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre, has issued a cybersecurity advisory warning that AI-powered deepfakes and synthetic identities are being used to bypass facial authenti…
Meta removed facial recognition software from its Meta AI companion app one day after WIRED revealed the unreleased system, called NameTag, was embedded in the app installed on over 50 million phones. The latest version …
A leading economist recently told an AI safety researcher that physical limits still allow for "multifold increases in GDP," revealing a blind spot in how the field treats the economy as a financial system rather than a …
SpaceX began trading on Nasdaq on June 12 at $135 per share in one of the most anticipated and controversial public offerings in history. The IPO allows the public to buy shares of the combined rocket, AI, and social med…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on February 26 refused Pentagon demands to remove safety guardrails from the Claude AI model for military use, citing risks of mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons. Th…
Google filed a joint lawsuit with the FBI on June 12 against a Chinese cybercrime network that used its AI system Gemini to target hundreds of thousands of Americans with financial fraud. OpenAI separately banned two Cha…