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BusPatrol, a company that has installed AI-powered cameras on over 40,000 school buses across 24 states, plans to expand its surveillance system to record all passing license plates and share that data with law enforceme…
Financial Times testing, conducted in partnership with AI safety group Alice, found that safety controls in Meta's Llama 3.3 and Google's Gemma 3 open-weight AI models can be removed in under 10 minutes using a publicly …
Pope Leo XIV quoted Gandalf from J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Lord of the Rings* in his new encyclical on AI and technology, marking the first time a fictional character has been cited in a major papal document. The quote, whic…
ByteDance is offering special stock grants to employees in its artificial intelligence division to prevent rival companies from poaching its talent. The move aims to retain key AI researchers and engineers amid intensify…
Pope Leo XIV released the encyclical "Magnifica Humilitas" on May 25, characterizing artificial intelligence as an industrial-revolution scale change that embeds moral weight in algorithms and design choices. The documen…
Activist Erin Brockovich launched a crowdsourced map tracking community concerns about AI data centers across the United States. The map, which has received over 2,700 reports, overlays major data center projects with lo…
Harvard President Alan Garber told the Class of 2026 during his Baccalaureate address Tuesday that human effort retains its value even as artificial intelligence reshapes society. Garber urged graduates to decide which k…
Thousands of IT employees across the University of California system have voted to unionize, forming the largest tech worker union in the United States with 8,400 members. The newly expanded bargaining unit, represented …
Chinese government agencies have begun requiring top artificial-intelligence professionals at private firms, including Alibaba and DeepSeek, to obtain approval before traveling abroad, according to people familiar with t…
DuckDuckGo usage surged in the days following Google I/O 2026, with traffic spikes coinciding with the conference's extensive AI announcements. The event generated widespread reactions described as either "thrilling or t…
Databricks co-founder Reynold Xin and Ada CEO Mike Murchison told a University of Toronto convocation event that Gen Z backlash against artificial intelligence stems from legitimate fears about job displacement, with Xin…
A McKinsey study found that only one-third of organizations have AI agent governance maturity at level 3 or higher, leaving most companies unable to answer basic accountability questions about their deployed agents. The …
Pope Leo XIV invited Anthropic cofounder Christopher Olah to speak at the Vatican on Monday during the presentation of his first encyclical on artificial intelligence, marking an unprecedented alliance between the Cathol…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who spent the past year warning that artificial intelligence would eliminate large numbers of white-collar jobs, now say those predictions were wrong. Altman said Tue…
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, published on May 25, warns that artificial intelligence has become an invisible infrastructure shaping daily life, work, and collective choices, and calls for "disa…
Papa Leone XIV ha pubblicato la sua prima enciclica, "Magnifica Humanitas", nel 135° anniversario della Rerum Novarum, affrontando la custodia della persona umana nell'era dell'intelligenza artificiale. Il documento crit…
A new study published in *Science Advances* found that most undergraduates believe marginalized communities deserve extra protection from offensive speech, but these values often waver under ideological pressure. Researc…
California lawmakers are considering an amendment that would exempt Linux and other open source software from mandatory age verification requirements. The proposed change would relieve open source developers from impleme…
GitHub has introduced targeted model rules for Copilot, now in public preview, allowing enterprise owners to assign specific AI models to individual organizations rather than applying a single enterprise-wide setting. Th…
Pope Leo XIV’s warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence drew a largely muted response from top Silicon Valley executives, including Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg, who did not immediately comment …