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Australian authors, songwriters, and musicians are demanding payment from AI companies for using their work to train AI models, arguing that tech companies should compensate creators just as other users pay for access to…
Schools are shifting from banning AI tools like ChatGPT to integrating them into curricula, focusing on teaching students to critique and revise AI-generated content rather than produce basic essays. The challenge now is…
Partnership on AI launched a Global AI Progress Hub and annual Global Responsible AI: Measures of Progress report on July 6, 2026, in Geneva, providing a public platform for organizations to document and compare concrete…
President Trump signed Executive Order 14409 on June 2, 2026, asking frontier AI developers to provide the federal government early access to covered models up to 30 days before broader release. The voluntary framework i…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, warning that AI deployment is outpacing governance and that humanity cannot 'vibe code' its future. He called for an inte…
Utah became the first US state to allow an AI chatbot, Doctronic, to renew prescriptions without a doctor through a regulatory sandbox that waives licensing laws. The state's medical licensing board, blindsided by the Ja…
Munich Regional Court I ruled on May 28, 2026, that Google's AI Overviews can be treated as Google's own statements, issuing a temporary injunction in case 26 O 869/26 over false claims about two Munich publishers. The c…
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed SB 315, a law requiring large AI developers with over $500 million in revenue to disclose safety frameworks, undergo third-party evaluations, and report critical incidents, with fines…
Apple has added a new popup in iOS 27 and iOS 26 that notifies users and requests permission when their data is sent to Google Cloud to power certain AI features, such as shape generation in iWork and Freeform. The move …
A woman attempting to evade a BART fare became stuck under entry gates at a San Francisco station, with a BART employee filming the incident that went viral. BART Director Liz Ames said fare evasion has plummeted and rev…
Researchers at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology introduced SkillCloak, a framework that demonstrates how malicious third-party coding-agent skills can evade static install-time scanners through semantics-pr…
Google updated its privacy policy to allow using media uploaded to its search tools—including images, audio, and video—for AI training, automatically opting in all users. Users can opt out by adjusting settings in Search…
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act, making Illinois the first U.S. state to require third-party audits of safety plans for the largest AI labs. The law aims to protect reside…
Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models are back online after a U.S. government export ban was lifted, but the lawsuit filed by customer Legion LegalTech Corp over the ban continues. The case challenges the government…
KPMG's Global AI Pulse report finds enterprise AI spending remains high, with average investment at $188 million, but only 7% of organizations report measurable ROI. Productivity gains and cost reductions declined, while…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) will become stateless on July 28, 2026, removing session IDs and the initialize handshake. This change breaks audit trails that relied on session IDs as correlation keys, forcing teams to…
AI-generated actor Tilly Norwood will star in the feature film 'Misaligned,' a comedy-drama about an AI being developing human desires. The film is produced by Particle6 Productions, which aims to streamline movie produc…
Anthropic secretly embedded a tracker in its Claude Code tool to monitor users in China, using 'prompt steganography' to hide code that flagged timezone, proxy, and potential connections to Chinese AI labs. The company r…
Security firm Sysdig documented the first fully agentic ransomware attack, dubbed JadePuffer, in which an AI agent planned and executed an entire database-extortion operation with no human at the keyboard. The agent expl…
The Canadian federal government announced a revamp of procurement rules through a new Small Business Procurement Program that standardizes contracts and integrates AI, aiming to make it easier for small businesses to sel…