Ethics & Regulation
Jinhua Zhao named head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Jinhua Zhao, an expert in behavioral science, transportation, and AI applications in public policy, has been named head...
MIT News AI
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AI ethics and policy
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Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women
A WIRED investigation discovered numerous nonconsensual sexualized deepfake images and videos of famous women and at...
Wired AI
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Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year
Amazon disclosed that its global data centers consumed 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, a 2% decrease from 2024...
The Verge AI
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AI's Hidden Energy Bill: Why Visibility is Becoming Critical for Enterprises
The article examines how energy consumption has become a critical consideration for AI investment decisions and...
AI Business
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic
Dario Amodei's new essay reads like a Cold War playbook for the AI age
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a sweeping essay and policy frameworks proposing binding audits of frontier AI...
The Decoder
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Claude Fable 5: Anthropic admits "wrong tradeoff" after invisibly throttling rival AI researchers
Anthropic reversed a policy that would have secretly throttled access to its AI models for rival AI researchers. The...
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Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude
Anthropic reversed a policy that would have secretly restricted Claude's ability to help develop competing AI models...
Wired AI
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Supporting Europe’s work in ensuring a trustworthy AI ecosystem
OpenAI supports the EU Code of Practice on AI content transparency, working to establish provenance standards and tools...
OpenAI Blog
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xAI fired an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety, new lawsuit claims
A former xAI engineer is suing the company and SpaceX, alleging wrongful termination for raising safety concerns about...
TechCrunch AI
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Why Andrew Yang is building instead of waiting for Washington
Andrew Yang, whose 2020 presidential campaign warned about automation and AI's impact on labor markets, is now building...
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Microsoft, like, totally gets why students are booing AI-pilled graduation speakers
College graduates have been booing AI-focused commencement speakers, reflecting broader public skepticism about...
The Verge AI
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Anthropic study shows AI needs hours, not weeks, to build exploits from security patches
Anthropic's research demonstrates that AI models can generate working security exploits from patches in hours rather...
The Decoder
Ethics & Regulation
The future of AI regulation is courting the strangest, most anxious bedfellows
The article discusses AI regulation efforts in Washington, featuring various political figures and stakeholders...
The Verge AI
Ethics & RegulationGoogle
Google won’t just admit it’s feeding YouTube creators to its music AI
Independent musicians are suing Google for allegedly using their YouTube-uploaded songs to train its Lyria music AI...
The Verge AI
Ethics & RegulationGoogle
Google will save your Lens photos, Search Live recordings, and Translate audio for AI training
Google is implementing a new 'Search Services History' setting that will save images, audio, video, and files from user...
The Verge AI
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Andrew Yang on Noble Mobile, UBI, and why he’s done waiting for policy to catch up
Andrew Yang discusses how his 2020 presidential campaign warnings about automation and AI's impact on labor markets...
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Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US
The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the wrongful arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction...
Wired AI
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PRC-linked influence operations are targeting AI debates in the US
OpenAI released a report detailing how Chinese state-linked influence operations are using AI to target U.S. policy...
OpenAI Blog
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Germany's National Security Council greenights an AI Safety Institute modeled after the UK's AISI
Germany's National Security Council has approved the creation of DE-AISI, an AI safety institute modeled after the UK's...
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