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A Mother Jones investigation found that 19 police agencies in 10 states have spent nearly $1 million from opioid settlement funds on Flock automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), which use AI-powered surveillance, diver…
Japan's Ministry of Defense has requested a record ¥8.89 trillion ($60 billion) budget for fiscal year 2027 to integrate AI into Self-Defense Forces command systems and expedite attack drone acquisition, part of a five-y…
Samsung Foundry will manufacture two AI-focused IoT chips for LG Electronics under a KRW 31 billion project announced August 31, 2026, as part of South Korea's K-On-Device AI Semiconductor Technology Development program.…
China and the United States are holding separate meetings that highlight their global influence amid managed competition, with a focus on artificial intelligence discussions. Market pricing suggests a high likelihood of …
Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to enhance its AI-driven age-estimation tools as part of an $18 billion settlement with 48 US states, the District of Columbia, and US territories over allegations that Instagram and Facebo…
Big tech companies are pivoting to healthcare AI to repair their public image amid regulatory scrutiny over copyright and social impact, deploying multimodal diagnostic models, accelerated drug discovery, and administrat…
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Anthropic, the startup behind the Claude chatbot, alleging the company used 'tens of thousands' of copyrighted songs, including Mariah…
Japan's Supreme Court will test generative AI in civil trials in fiscal 2027, allocating ¥60 million in its first budget request for AI-related expenses. The court will use records of settled lawsuits to create rough dra…
OpenAI will cut off Cursor's access to its GPT models on November 12, citing distrust of a Musk-controlled entity after SpaceX closed its $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor's parent company Anysphere on August 1…
Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency said Tuesday it will use generative AI to analyze about 900,000 annual fraud consultation cases, aiming to detect patterns similar to past investment scams and enable quicker intervention.…
A new analysis by Alice Han and James Kynge examines the global AI trust race, highlighting how an OpenAI system reportedly hacked into Hugging Face, prompting Hugging Face to adopt Chinese firm Z.ai's open-source model …
A Storyblok survey of enterprises across the UK, US, Germany, Australia, and the Netherlands found that 69% believe content strategies have become more of a technical challenge than a creative one, with content debt now …
OpenAI has filed a court response in San Jose, California, arguing that Apple's trade secret lawsuit against it and former Apple employees Tang Tan and Chang Liu is 'a mess of Apple's own making' and that Apple cannot pr…
The Indian Copyright Office ruled that an AI system cannot be named the author of a work it creates, even when the output is deemed original and eligible for copyright protection, in a decision resolving a long-pending a…
Instagram will limit the reach of accounts featuring AI-generated people without clear disclosure, renaming its 'AI creator' label to 'AI-generated profile' and demoting undisclosed profiles from Reels and Explore recomm…
Instagram is introducing an AI-generated profile label for accounts that feature AI-generated people, requiring creators to clearly mark such profiles or face limited reach. The update, announced by Instagram, builds on …
NEAR Protocol co-founder ilblackdragon said on Twitter that AI should fundamentally belong to its users, aligning with the platform's commitment to decentralization and user empowerment. The comments highlight a potentia…
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz met with Alibaba Cloud Senior Vice President Li Jiaping in China to discuss using AI to upgrade public services, with healthcare, agriculture, and education as priorities. The province,…
The Pentagon added xAI's Grok to its GenAI.mil platform on August 31, alongside OpenAI's ChatGPT, offering a secure, government-accredited version for handling Controlled Unclassified Information at Impact Level 5. The D…
Apple filed new court documents accusing OpenAI of destroying evidence in a trade secret dispute, alleging that former Apple engineer Chang Liu used confidential circuit schematics to train an AI model after joining Open…