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Meta's $17 billion settlement with the FTC over teen safety on Instagram and Facebook signals a broader erosion of Big Tech's operational freedom, with the AI industry now facing rising local opposition to data center co…
Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Wallets during its Agents Week, giving AI agents a stablecoin balance and a cloudflare.pay handle for paying APIs, data, and content, but only handle claiming works today, with funding and…
Fewer than 30% of Americans support a data center being built in their community, and the industry's failure to address consumer concerns over electricity, water, and noise is costing America the AI race, according to a …
New York's Synthetic Performers law, which took effect in June, has drawn its first four complaints from advertisers allegedly using AI-generated models or actors without disclosure, all currently under review by the sta…
Human-in-the-loop AI is becoming the default operating model in banking, according to an industry perspective, as institutions prioritize oversight and accountability over full automation. The shift aligns with regulator…
Enterprise AI agent adoption is surging, with employee adoption at 56% of organizations, up from 23% in Q1, and organizations orchestrating multiple agents across workflows rising from 9% to 18% in the same quarter, acco…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged in a Time interview that 'people hate data centers' and are 'pretty negative on AI,' reflecting growing backlash against the industry. The opposition has intensified, with governors in …
SourceHut has decided to update its terms of service to restrict or prohibit the use of large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI technologies on its platform, following a community discussion and internal del…
Google will not automatically penalize AI-generated content, as the company evaluates pages based on substance and user behavior signals rather than origin, according to an analysis by Dejan SEO. The article argues that …
MIT President Sally Kornbluth announced a report from an ad-hoc committee on AI in education that calls for a complete revolution in university instruction, urging departments to allow curricular experimentation without …
OpenAI paused internal development of its upcoming Astra model on August 7 after evaluations found the system can autonomously develop working zero-day exploits against hardened real-world targets without human direction…
New York Focus analyzed 54 op-eds by New York elected officials published since May 1 in City & State, the Albany Times Union, and the New York Daily News, finding that 28 contained AI-generated text. Nine politicians, i…
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, warned in a 5,784-word essay on his personal website that there is no plan to ease society into the AI era, which could become one of the most turbulent periods in human history. He p…
Ireland's artificial intelligence boom is forcing a national debate over nuclear power, a technology the country has tried to ban for decades. The growing energy demands of AI data centers have prompted policymakers to r…
A new paper argues that return-to-office (RTO) mandates act as a workforce-selection rule that disproportionately excludes disabled, neurodivergent, and caregiving engineers, thereby narrowing the lived experience that s…
Microsoft's Paint and Photos apps embed server-issued GUIDs as invisible watermarks in locally generated images, with prompt moderation occurring remotely even on Copilot+ PCs where image generation is local. The GUID is…
A Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) poll of 18-40 year olds found that 56% trust AI tools for investment decisions, compared with 47% who trust television and radio, 46% newspapers, and 29% social media influencers. Near…
Deutsche Bank analysis of 30 countries found Britain is more exposed than any other major economy to AI disruption, with a high share of the domestic workforce in AI-impacted roles and significant services exports at ris…
The US government is investigating Singapore-based Apex Logistics for allegedly smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China, potentially marking the first action against a transportation company for participating in the illegal s…
AI startup Motif Technologies has filed a formal objection with South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT after its Motif 3 model was eliminated from the second stage of the government's national AI foundation model proj…