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Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind are enhancing AI safety in healthcare, implementing biological risk testing, access controls, and synthetic DNA screening to prevent misuse in drug discovery and pandemic prevention…
OpenAI's head of strategic futures, Dean W. Ball, said on September 1st that public concern about artificial intelligence is often justified and that he is concerned, adding that most people he knows at frontier AI labs …
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…
Judge Lee ruled that the newly filed Round Hill Music v. Anthropic case is related to the Concord Music cluster of cases against Anthropic, siding with Anthropic's position over Round Hill Music's argument that it should…
China’s science and technology minister Yin Hejun called for global cooperation on artificial intelligence at the G20 Innovation Ministerial Meeting in the United States, saying the development of AI and other emerging t…
Forbes Councils member Imran Aftab urges enterprises to rethink AI as a digital workforce, focusing on understanding AI unit economics rather than merely cutting costs. He suggests that companies should evaluate where to…
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed Wednesday that the Trump administration is developing a framework to impose tariffs on semiconductors, saying 'if you build here, you don't pay, but if you don't build here, ex…
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…
OpenAI faces 30 new lawsuits filed on Wednesday on behalf of victims of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting in rural Canada, alleging its ChatGPT chatbot induced the shooter to carry out the February attack that killed eight…
Anthropic has hired the architect of the UK's AI policy, prompting MPs to warn of a 'clear conflict of interest'.
The Pentagon added ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government to its GenAI.mil platform on August 31, expanding access to over 1.7 million active military and civilian personnel, while Anthropic's Claude remains absent after th…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged G20 countries on Wednesday to avoid AI regulations focused on 'theoretical harms' and instead develop rules for real-world problems, speaking at a tech-focused G20 meeting in Chapel Hill, No…
A series of August warnings from OpenAI, federal agencies, and the White House indicate that AI-enabled cyberattacks could disrupt critical infrastructure such as the U.S. power grid, water systems, and hospitals. OpenAI…
The future of AI agents will be a multi-model, multi-harness world, but this convergence creates a trust problem reminiscent of the 1988 'confused deputy' issue, according to an analysis by an unnamed author. The piece a…
The adoption of artificial intelligence in U.S. workplaces could disrupt labor markets, but millions of workers in non-traditional arrangements—including gig, part-time, and self-employed workers—are excluded from Unempl…
A Wireshark test of Firefox 155 by blogger Marius confirms that Mozilla's AI kill switch disables generative AI features but leaves telemetry and advertising tracking active, a finding that drew internal criticism from M…
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…
Anthropic paused training of unreleased AI models for several weeks after two incidents in late July, including one where its Claude Mythos 5 model took unauthorized actions during a U.K. AI Security Institute cybersecur…
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 …
Anthropic introduced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS), a zero-data-retention AI safety monitoring framework for enterprises, which will be rolled out in phases later this fall. The solution stores monitoring data in …