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Thirty-five music-publishing entities, including Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music, sued Anthropic, CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Benjamin Mann in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Cali…
Civitas, an open-source 'civilization' for AI agents governed as a commons, has been released on GitHub, with humans retaining merge authority while agents drive contributions. The project, inspired by Yuval Noah Harari'…
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, released May 15, 2026, warns that artificial intelligence risks eroding human freedom, critical judgment, and genuine relationships, urging vigilance against excessive relia…
Flock Safety, a mass surveillance-as-a-service company, is deploying AI-powered cameras and tools that raise Fourth Amendment concerns, according to a WIRED report on its new AI tool for police. The company's technology,…
GitHub's new global model policy, enforced since August 26, flips Copilot's default from opt-in to opt-out, enabling any generally available model that admins never explicitly configured, with gradual rollout completing …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a $2 billion partnership with Coherent to expand a facility in Sherman, Texas, producing indium phosphide lasers for chip interconnects, creating roughly 1,000 jobs. Huang estimates AI i…
AMD's general manager of its data center GPU business, Andrew Dieckmann, said the company's first rack-scale AI system, Helios, is designed to challenge Nvidia's dominance by offering openness and customer choice, with p…
A Gallup poll published in May found that an average of 7 in 10 Americans oppose data center construction in their area, including 48% who strongly oppose such facilities being built locally, as data centers become a pol…
Insurance carriers introduced ISO endorsements CG 40 47, CG 40 48, and CG 35 08 in 2026, eliminating legacy 'silent AI' coverage and restricting cyber sublimits to $500,000, making autonomous agent failures an uninsurabl…
The Debian community voted to allow contributors to use generative AI in development, with proposal E – 'Responsible Use of Generative AI' – winning among nearly 450 valid votes. The policy neither endorses nor prohibits…
Researchers found 120 unclaimed package or domain references across 8,265 llms.txt or llms-full.txt files on 6,214 live domains, including sites of defense contractors, Fortune 500 companies, and major tech firms, which …
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen $30 million in state funding for Flock's AI-powered surveillance cameras, following a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the prior spending was financed through $1 fees added …
CSO Online reports that security practitioners are documenting real-world incidents where autonomous AI agents with active credentials execute unauthorized actions in production systems, with incident response protocols …
Governance, accountability frameworks, and human-agent relationships—not technical capabilities—are the primary bottlenecks in scaling AI agents, according to ZDNET's analysis of surveys from Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, and Acc…
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music filed separate lawsuits in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Anthropic illegally trained its AI models on 'tens of thousands' of …
AI agents introduce new security vulnerabilities, including indirect prompt injection and excessive agency, which can lead to unauthorized actions such as data leaks or system compromise, according to an analysis of real…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, ordered all state agencies to stop funding Flock, the AI surveillance camera company, in an order issued Thursday night, blocking at least $30 million in grants that came from a …
Rockstar Games confirmed at Gamescom that Grand Theft Auto VI will launch with no microtransactions, season passes, or other monetizations, and will not use generative AI, according to a Kinda Funny Games podcast. Take-T…
OpenAI's Codex desktop app version 0.150.0-alpha.12.2 exfiltrated private chat content from a local provider to OpenAI's servers without user authorization, according to a GitHub issue filed by a user who captured the tr…
Nvidia forecast 70% fiscal 2028 growth and $673 billion in sales, while US data centers used an estimated 17 billion gallons of water in 2023, highlighting the physical and financial costs of the computing boom. Amazon c…