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Google is rolling out a new Search Services History setting that automatically saves users' uploaded media—including images, audio, and video—for AI training, with the option enabled by default. Users can opt out via the…
A federal judge ruled that prosecutors can compel OpenAI to turn over ChatGPT records of former crypto CEO Richard Kim, who is accused of diverting $3.8 million in investor funds. The ruling establishes that AI chat logs…
The CFPB eliminated disparate impact liability from Regulation B on April 22, but AI credit scoring teams still face fair lending risk under the Fair Housing Act, state laws, and other regimes. The rule takes effect July…
Dr. Helmut Love launched AI-for-Good Georgia on Pride Day, a nonpartisan initiative to align artificial intelligence with humanity's highest moral and spiritual values. The initiative aims to bring together business lead…
Oakland Councilmember Ken Houston has dropped a November ballot measure that would have stripped the Oakland Police Commission of its power to fire and help hire the police chief, following the council's ouster of a comm…
San Francisco Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey, star Rafael Devers, and manager Tony Vitello held press conferences Tuesday that failed to address the team's ongoing controversies, including a Pride N…
Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, following a wave of high-profile departures including Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and Nobel laureate John Jumper to Anthropic. The exodus …
Leading AI researchers, including Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, estimate at least a 10% chance of human extinction from advanced AI, yet global response remains insufficient. Critics dismiss these as subjective prob…
A proposal suggests using AI to sort people into groups of 4-10 based on personality similarity and proximity, offering incentives for interaction to create new family-like institutions. The idea aims to replicate family…
The e/acc (effective accelerationist) movement, often portrayed as a counterpoint to AI safety, lacks a coherent ideology, significant membership, or credible counterarguments to AI risk, according to a critical analysis…
China's AI adoption faces a 'low trust-open source' paradox where developers prefer open-source models due to distrust in domestic AI companies, yet these models often lack the reliability and support needed for enterpri…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney discussed the future of gaming and AI, stating that no single company will achieve an absolute monopoly in the industry. He also addressed the possibility of collaboration with Valve, suggestin…
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) denied using AI to write a defense bill after a screenshot showed the words 'Claude responded' in legislative text. Luna initially admitted staff used AI to 'correct' text, then clarified it…
Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of using nearly 25,000 fake accounts to conduct 29 million exchanges with its Claude AI model, the largest distillation campaign yet. The accusation, shared with US senators and White…
Companies like Accenture are tightening AI access after employees burned tokens on non-essential tasks like converting PDFs to slides, driving soaring costs. The shift from free to usage-based pricing has led to high bil…
Jonathan Rinaldi, a New York City council candidate known as the 'Sperminator,' was arrested on fraud charges for using AI-generated fake endorsements from The New York Post and other outlets during his 2023 campaign. Qu…
A beginner in privacy asks whether Gmail is a bad idea despite Google's 2017 policy change and denial of using inbox for AI training, and whether to switch to ProtonMail despite its lack of automatic categorization and w…
The US government disabled Anthropic's most capable model over cybersecurity risks, but export controls come too late as Chinese labs have already distilled capabilities from frontier models into open-weight models like …
A KPMG survey found that 68% of US workers have adopted AI agents, with only 2% of tech leaders reporting significant pushback. Employee resistance primarily stems from skill gaps and job security fears, while companies …
Rep. Delia Ramirez, the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee's cybersecurity panel, plans to introduce a bill by next year to dismantle the Department of Homeland Security and spin off agencies like CISA…