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Apple obtained former employee Chang Liu's old work laptop for investigation after his legal counsel handed it over earlier this month. Apple alleges that Liu, who now works at OpenAI, used a confiden
New York Governor Kathy Hochul appeared on The Verge's Decoder podcast to discuss her positions on major tech policy issues. The interview covers multiple topics including Meta's settlement with state
Music publishers Sony, EMI, and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic, alleging the AI company illegally torrented "thousands upon thousands" of copyrighted musical compositions to train Claude. The law
Debian voted to allow developers to use AI tools in their contributions to the Linux distribution, including development, maintenance, and documentation. The new AI policy states it "neither endorses
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and other music publishers sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging
A federal judge ruled that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's labeling of Anthropic as a national security risk was "unlawful retaliation" in violation of the First Amendment, calling the decision "arbi
Flock CEO Garrett Langley appeared on Fox News calling for 'compromise' between public safety and privacy as the company faces mounting criticism over its surveillance technology, which includes camer
OpenAI's global affairs team posted on LinkedIn that California should amend its SB 53 AI safety bill to "expand safeguards." The company specifically proposed requiring monitoring of frontier models
According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The team was responsible for assessing whether AI models posed serious risks and developing methods t
A woman has joined a lawsuit filed by three Tennessee teenagers against Elon Musk's xAI over the role the company's chatbot Grok allegedly played in creating child sexual abuse material. The woman all
A conspiracy theory about a "censorship-industrial complex" (CIC) has spread from online fringe communities to influencing Trump administration policy. The theory claims that government agencies, acad
The Federal Trade Commission issued a sweeping ban on foreign imports of advanced robots, including humanoids, quadrupeds, and wheeled robots. This decision marks the Trump administration expanding it
Governor Greg Abbott has declared a moratorium on all new power grid connections for data centers in Texas, directing the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT to perform a comprehensive verifi
OpenAI has responded to Apple's lawsuit by addressing the claims made against it. The company is correcting claims about its employees that were included in the legal filing. OpenAI has also released
The EU's new transparency obligations under the AI Act came into effect on August 2nd, requiring companies to disclose when people are interacting with AI systems and if content has been generated or
Three major record labels—Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group—have proposed rules that would exclude AI-generated songs from official charts unless they meet specific criteria. T
Google Earth launched an AI feature called "Nano Banana" that generated realistic satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery from text prompts. Researchers at Digital Digging, including Henk van Ess, demonstra
OpenAI has shared details about how its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices support responsible AI governance in Europe. The company has outlined these practices as part of its ap
When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, author Kirk Wallace Johnson discovered his books "The Feather Thief" and "The Fishermen and the Dragon" had been used withou
Samsung chip workers are leaving for rival SK Hynix, driven by a massive bonus gap between the two companies. SK Hynix is paying its employees approximately $476,000 each—funded by record profits from
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has clarified that his company has never advocated for banning open-weight AI models, responding to an open letter from Nvidia, Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, and Mistral ur
Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against AI music generator Udio, accusing it of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 songs ranging from Elvis Presley's Hound Dog to Beyoncé'
Apple filed a trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, alleging that OpenAI recruited former Apple employees to share confidential information. OpenAI responded that it is "not aware of any ev
The European Commission has announced new Digital Markets Act (DMA) measures requiring Google to support interoperability and competition in the EU. The measures cover two areas: Android and search. G
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is using AI to analyze "every single rule, regulation, [and] policy" in the state to identify outdated legislation. During an interview with Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast
OpenAI has proposed a "reverse federalism" approach to AI governance in the United States. Under this framework, state laws would serve as building blocks to construct a national framework for AI regu
A group of 26 former Meta employees is suing the company over claims that it used AI tools to unfairly target workers on protected leave with layoffs. The lawsuit alleges Meta determined which workers
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing the AI company of systematically stealing trade secrets through former Apple emplo
Lorde performed at the Real Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday and used her set to speak out against AI glasses, saying "fuck the glasses. Don't get the glasses. Not sexy." While she didn't name spec
Alibaba has reportedly banned employees from using Anthropic's coding tool Claude Code, starting on July 10, according to multiple reports. Anthropic already prohibits Chinese companies, as well as fo
Disney and Universal sued Midjourney last year for alleged copyright infringement, claiming its image-generation models could create images of characters like Bart Simpson and Darth Vader. Warner Bros
OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Fin
The New York Jobs CEO Council and Urban Assembly hosted an AI summit for 150 education and industry leaders, aiming to drive knowledge sharing between those hiring for the future and educators teachin
Tidal announced new policies on AI-generated music aimed at protecting artists and informing listeners. Starting today, tracks the platform identifies as 100 percent AI-generated will no longer be mon
At a shareholder meeting, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son argued that building data centers in space won't meaningfully cut costs and will take too long, noting that "in the battle for AI, the next few yea
The Trump administration is softening its stance on Anthropic, allowing the company to make its cybersecurity-oriented model Mythos 5 available to more than 100 specific U.S. government agencies and c
Two weeks after the Trump administration issued a Friday evening ultimatum, Anthropic has kept its Mythos-class models offline and provided no public updates on negotiations. The company sent a barrag
According to The Information, OpenAI is limiting the release of its new model to a select group of close partners because the Trump administration directed it to. CEO Sam Altman reportedly told staff
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) says her staff used AI only for "spellcheck" in an amendment summary for the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, and denies the technology was used to write the amen
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude "are not your friends," "not conscious beings," and "not sentient interlocutors." The comments came during a broader
Last Friday, the White House directed Anthropic to halt exports of its frontier AI models, Fable and Mythos, citing unspecified national security threats. The order bars the models from being shared w
The White House last Friday directed Anthropic to halt exports of its frontier AI models Fable and Mythos to any entity outside the United States, as well as to foreign nationals working domestically,
Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani is betting big on making artificial intelligence ubiquitous across India's daily digital life, unveiling a suite of AI-powered services at the conglomerate's
The US government has forced Anthropic to pull its two newest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns that emerged late last week. The action reportedly stems from Amazon re
The US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, late last week over national security concerns. The action followed reports that researchers at Amazon allege
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has privately warned executives at ASML, the Dutch semiconductor equipment maker, that he believes one of the company's extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) mac
OpenAI is making two high-profile hires as it prepares for an initial public offering, recruiting Noam Shazeer, one of the architects of modern generative AI, and Dean Ball, a former White House AI po
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a unanimous order on Thursday directing six major U.S. grid operators to fast-track interconnection requests from AI data centers and other large electr
The U.S. Commerce Department's enforcement action against Anthropic on Friday, June 12, 2026, reveals how a single government letter can shut down a major AI product without court oversight. The Comme
More than 70 cybersecurity professionals have signed an open letter urging the U.S. government to reverse an export control order that blocks access to Anthropic's most advanced AI models, Fable and M
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