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Amnesty International released a briefing today accusing companies of unlawfully scraping vast amounts of online data to build generative AI products, calling the systems "unlawful by design" due to mass invasions of pri…
The National Park Service is using at least $67 million in entrance fees collected from visitors to national parks to fund President Donald Trump’s Washington, D.C., beautification projects, a New York Times analysis of …
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President Alberto Musalem warned that policymakers cannot rely on artificial intelligence-driven productivity gains to reduce inflation, arguing the projected boom has not materialized i…
AI-generated videos depicting Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt as Batman and other heroic figures have sparked backlash from opponents and raised legal questions about AI political content under California law…
At least 14 companies, including Angi, Atlassian, and Block, have announced layoffs citing AI-driven efficiency improvements as a primary reason for workforce reductions. A March report from Challenger, Gray, and Christm…
IBM and Red Hat announced Project Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative combining new AI capabilities and a global team of over 20,000 engineers to secure open source software for enterprises. The project establishes a trus…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reversed his previous warnings that artificial intelligence would "probably replace most of the jobs people do today," now saying he was "pretty wrong" about an AI jobs apocalypse. The messaging…
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President Alberto Musalem warned against relying on artificial intelligence to reduce inflation, stating it is "too early to outsource" the central bank's inflation-control responsibilit…
Communities across the United States are being transformed into "AI Exclusion Zones" as data centers for artificial intelligence operations are built in suburban and rural areas without resident consent, subjecting neigh…
The European Union fined Chinese online retailer Temu $232 million on Thursday for failing to protect consumers from illegal products, including toxic toys and unsafe electronics, in violation of the bloc's Digital Servi…
CNN filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Perplexity AI in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging the startup’s AI tools produce verbatim copies of the network’s journalism and byp…
OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing for initial public offerings later this year, with OpenAI targeting September and Anthropic eyeing October or later, as the two AI giants seek to go public amid economic headwinds. Open…
Inference costs dropped 80% in 2026, but total AI spending rose as agentic systems consumed far more tokens than chat-based AI. Regulation went live, physical AI left the lab, and an invisible divide opened between organ…
The White House indefinitely postponed its anticipated AI executive order, with David Sacks and others intervening to effectively kill the directive except for work on securing critical infrastructure, leaving U.S. AI po…
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President Alberto Musalem warned that betting on artificial intelligence to reduce inflation is a risky strategy. Musalem stated that while AI could boost productivity over time, its nea…
Enterprise AI rollouts have been temporarily halted as executives at Fidelity Investments and EY discovered that generative AI tools were surfacing vast amounts of long-forgotten, unsecured data from SharePoint sites and…
CNN filed a lawsuit against Perplexity in a New York court Thursday, alleging the startup’s AI tools generate “verbatim” copies of its articles and provide users with content locked behind CNN’s subscription paywall. The…
Meta has unexpectedly increased funding to its Oversight Board, providing a new lifeline after months of uncertainty about the body's future. The company's decision to boost financial support for the independent content …
Virtuals Protocol and the Ethereum Foundation's dAI team co-hosted the first builder session for ERC-8183, a proposed standard called "Agentic Commerce" that introduces a permissionless escrow system for autonomous AI ag…
Massachusetts leaders are pitching the state as a haven for AI talent fleeing California's proposed ballot measure that would impose a one-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires' assets. Half of the 20 most valuable venture-…