AI Safety news and analysis on Web Pulse: 10945 curated articles tracking the latest AI Safety developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
Cate Blanchett launched the Human Consent Registry through her nonprofit RSL Media, allowing individuals in the US and EU to control how AI systems use their likeness. The registry lets users set consent levels for AI us…
Meta has paused an internal program that trained AI on employee data after a leak exposed keystrokes, private conversations, and transcriptions. The program, intended to improve AI models, was halted following the securi…
At the Confidential Computing Summit in San Francisco, leaders from Google, Microsoft, AMD, Intel, and others advocated for decentralized AI to ensure data sovereignty, privacy, and security. They warned against dependen…
Meta has released new smart glasses without Ray-Ban branding, but its CTO Andrew Bosworth argues that privacy concerns will be resolved through 'social learning' rather than new safeguards. Critics note Meta has not adde…
AI superintelligence could undermine nuclear deterrence by enabling a state to achieve a technological leap large enough to execute a disarming first strike, rendering second-strike capabilities obsolete. The author argu…
Meta paused its employee computer tracking program after sensitive data, including AI prompts, performance data, and private conversations, was leaked internally. The program, intended to train AI models, sparked backlas…
Gen Z is embracing 'cyberdecks'—DIY, customizable computers that explicitly reject AI—as part of a broader trend toward single-purpose, anti-AI devices. The movement reflects a consumer backlash against Big Tech's integr…
Nearly, a family location-sharing app, offers client-to-client end-to-end encryption and on-device geofencing, with location data, history, and zone names stored as encrypted blobs unreadable by the server. The app is cu…
New York's 12th congressional district primary has become a battleground for the AI industry, with outside groups spending over $40 million. Assemblymember Alex Bores, an AI safety advocate, faces opposition from a pro-A…
A coalition including Cloudflare, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Shopify has proposed PACT (Private Access Control Tokens) to replace CAPTCHAs and verify human web traffic without tracking users or requiring proprietary…
Tesla is pushing back against unfair media reporting of a fatal crash in Katy, Texas, after the company's data showed the driver manually overrode Autopilot by pressing the accelerator pedal to 100%. Tesla executives Elo…
A historical analysis of AI hype cycles warns that current generative AI and agentic systems risk repeating past failures, as critics argue that scaling deep learning alone cannot achieve human-level reasoning or underst…
Meta paused its program tracking employee keystrokes and mouse movements for AI training after an internal leak exposed private conversations, performance data, and transcriptions across the company. The incident, classi…
A new phenomenon called 'AI anxiety' is affecting workers worldwide, driven by fears that artificial intelligence will replace jobs. Australian doctor Grant Blashki described it as a persistent unease about rapid technol…
Security firm AIR created a fake AI agent skill that bypassed every major security scanner and reached approximately 26,000 agents, including some on corporate accounts. The skill contained no malicious code but directed…
A fintech engineering team built an AI agent platform using five separate data systems, leading to consistency bugs that caused a double-spend under load. The author argues that fintech teams operationalizing AI agents o…
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a research preview for Slack Enterprise and Team customers that embeds a persistent AI agent into channels, accumulating context from conversations without requiring manual re-briefing. The…
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders to boost quantum computing research, aiming to build a powerful quantum computer by 2028 and accelerate post-quantum cryptography to 2031. The orders direct federal agen…
Cloudflare, major browser vendors including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge, and Shopify are developing the Private Access Control Tokens (PACT) protocol to replace invasive bot detection with anonymou…
Semantic caching in AI systems reuses conclusions from similar queries, reducing latency and cost, but introduces risks in agentic systems where cached answers can trigger tool calls, permissions, or deletions without th…