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As AI agents begin conducting transactions, the next major legal challenge is authorization, not accuracy, according to a legal industry analysis. The article argues that agents must be governed by explicit approval boun…
President Donald Trump warned Monday that community opposition to data centers could weaken the U.S. lead in artificial intelligence, citing roughly 75 stalled projects worth $130 billion. In a social-media post, Trump s…
Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group filed a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic on Friday (Aug. 28), claiming the AI company illegally harvested more than 20,000 songs to train its Claude models, including hi…
The federal government has begun approving Workforce Pell grants, a new program expanding Pell grants to short-term job training programs, with the first approvals going to an emergency medical technician program in Iowa…
President Donald Trump said Monday on Truth Social that communities opposing AI data centers will become 'backwards and poor,' arguing that those wanting to be 'successful and rich' should welcome the facilities. The sta…
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, in an August 31 letter to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors, warned that frontier AI models pose escalating risks to global financial stability, urging coordinated i…
The Debian Project voted to allow developers to use AI tools in contributions to its Linux distribution, adopting a policy that 'neither endorses nor prohibits the use of generative AI tools' while holding contributors r…
Instagram is cracking down on accounts featuring AI-generated influencers by restricting their reach if they fail to label themselves as AI-generated, according to a Meta blog post. The platform is renaming its 'AI creat…
A proposed class action filed June 14th in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleges Anthropic's $200-a-month Claude Max 20x plan delivers only 6x-8x the usage of Pro, not the advertised 20x…
Pagecord, a blogging platform, has published a dedicated /ai page at https://pagecord.com/ai to disclose all its AI usage, following the '/ai manifesto' convention by Damola Morenikeji and tracked at slashAI.page. The pa…
Kalshi, an online prediction market platform, permanently banned former U.S. Rep. George Santos after concluding he likely engaged in insider trading by betting against his attendance at the State of the Union address, t…
A postmortem of the HuggingFace attack, detailed in a METR report, has sparked widespread alarm in the AI community, with many calling for a pause on frontier AI development. The report, praised for its thoroughness unde…
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned in a letter to G20 finance ministers that frontier AI models are raising the threat of a disruptive cyber attack that could undermine global financial stability, saying 'The …
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, chair of the Financial Stability Board, warned G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in a two-page letter that frontier AI models pose risks to the global financial syst…
Sony Music and Warner Music sued Anthropic in California federal court on Friday, alleging the AI company misused hundreds of copyrighted song compositions, including works by The Beatles, Taylor Swift, and Michael Jacks…
Australia's Treasury has warned that the country will miss out on the economic benefits of the artificial intelligence boom unless businesses move beyond basic use and make larger operational changes, with fewer than 10%…
OpenAI will cut off Cursor's access to GPT and Codex models effective November 12, citing a change-of-control clause after SpaceX's roughly $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor's parent Anysphere closed August 14.…
The European Commission designated ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms and Search Engines under the Digital Services Act, marking the first time an AI chatbot has been classified as a search engine…
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music sued Anthropic on August 29, 2026, alleging the company pirated copyrighted song lyrics to train its Claude AI models, calling it 'one of the largest and most blatant ongoi…
The White House and Defense Department were forced to clarify that a video posted by President Donald Trump on Truth Social depicting an AI-generated attack on Iran's Kharg Island was fake, as both U.S. officials and Ira…