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More than 80 UK performers, including Nicola Coughlan and Hugh Bonneville, urged Prime Minister Andy Burnham to give citizens statutory legal ownership of their voices against AI cloning.
Read more →OpenAI has rolled out a dedicated ChatGPT experience for 13-to-17-year-olds, adding content safeguards, parental controls, and a homework-focused Study Mode by default.
Read more →Mistral AI has open-sourced Shieldstral, a 3-billion-parameter model that moderates text and images against custom, plain-language policies without retraining.
Read more →A federal judge refused to pause Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI 'nudification' apps before it took effect August 1, rejecting xAI's emergency request.
Read more →xAI has sued Minnesota's attorney general to block a first-in-the-nation law against AI 'nudification' apps, arguing it violates the First Amendment.
Read more →Google DeepMind AI safety researcher Alex Turner resigned after the company signed a Pentagon Gemini deal that lacks binding limits on autonomous weapons and surveillance use.
Read more →San Francisco's city attorney gave Apple and Google 28 days to remove 13 AI apps that generate non-consensual nude images, citing new California deepfake laws.
Read more →A Bronx hospital eliminated 12 utilization-review nursing jobs and moved insurance-approval work to AI software, prompting a union grievance over a newly signed labor contract.
Read more →A paper honored at ICML 2026 argues that AI alignment techniques such as RLHF and Constitutional AI can double as tools for state censorship and political control.
Read more →Anthropic is asking the public to submit its toughest concerns about AI and pledging to publicly track how it responds, backed by large-scale surveys of Americans and Claude users worldwide.
Read more →Meta's new AI image generator, built by Meta Superintelligence Labs, is now live across its apps — but talent agency CAA says its opt-out design misuses people's likenesses without consent.
Read more →Particle6 says its AI-generated performer Tilly Norwood will star in the feature film Misaligned, a project SAG-AFTRA has already condemned as a threat to human actors.
Read more →The Future of Life Institute's latest AI Safety Index gave Anthropic the top grade among nine major AI developers — a C+ — while three companies failed outright.
Read more →A new Anthropic interpretability tool called the Jacobian lens surfaces concepts Claude is silently processing but never writes down, including signs it recognizes when it's being tested.
Read more →Midjourney has asked a federal judge to compel Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to disclose how they use AI internally, arguing the studios engage in the very practices they are suing it for.
Read more →Artificial intelligence was the top stated reason behind US layoffs for the fourth month in a row in June, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas — with more than 101,700 AI-related cuts announced so far in 2026.
Read more →A 40-member UN scientific panel released the first independent global AI assessment on July 1, warning that current safeguards cannot keep pace with the technology and that benefits risk widening global inequality.
Read more →The United Nations and ITU announced the AI for Good Global Commission on July 2, assembling 44 founding members — including heads of state and the CEOs of Amazon, Nvidia, and Microsoft — to help ensure AI benefits developing nations and bridges the global digital divide.
Read more →A WIRED investigation reveals Meta's secret "Project Cannes" used hundreds of workers posing as underage users to send crisis prompts to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI — without the companies' knowledge.
Read more →Anthropic told US senators that operators linked to Alibaba used nearly 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million exchanges to illicitly copy Claude's capabilities into Alibaba's Qwen model — calling it the largest known attack of its kind.
Read more →A multi-institution index of 30 deployed AI agents finds that 25 lack published internal safety results and 23 have no third-party testing, raising urgent questions as agentic systems take on increasingly consequential tasks.
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