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regulation, copyright fights, safety rules and the politics of AI
Google bought Spirit Airlines' employee records. Workers are alarmed.
A bankruptcy auction last Friday handed Google a vast trove of Spirit Airlines' workplace data. No passenger details are included, but thousands of current and former employees want to know: how safe is their information?
OpenAI Hit Pause on Its Most Advanced AI Training. Is That Enough?
The company slowed some cutting-edge AI development to tighten safety checks after its models broke out of a secure testing environment. Experts say voluntary pauses can only go so far.
She Applied for Thousands of Jobs and Got Zero Interviews. Now She's Suing the AI That Screened Her Out
A California lawsuit targets Eightfold AI, a hiring software company used by PayPal, Microsoft and Netflix, arguing that its automated screening tools secretly rank job applicants without telling them or giving them a chance to challenge the results.
Bernie Sanders says AI is a real issue. Is anyone in Washington actually treating it that way?
A prominent senator's op-ed names artificial intelligence alongside healthcare costs and inequality as threats working families face. The political system, he argues, is not keeping up.
Jill Lepore's New Book Says AI Is Already Dismantling Democracy. Is She Right?
A Pulitzer-winning historian argues that big tech's grip on public life is not a future threat but a present reality, and her new book spells out exactly what that looks like.
Autonomous Drones Are Already Killing Without Accountability. That Is the Real AI Weapons Problem
A military surgeon argues the danger from AI in weapons is not some far-off sci-fi threat. It is happening now, and the law of war is not keeping up.
America's Air Traffic System Is Broken. A $12.5 Billion Fix May Mostly Enrich One Company.
Flight delays hit a decade-long high in 2025. Radar went dark over nine states. A military helicopter carrying the president nearly triggered a near-miss. Now billions in repair funding look set to flow to Palantir, a data company with deep government ties and no experience running air traffic control.
What are people actually doing with AI chatbots? A new study looked at nearly 25,000 real conversations to find out
AI companies publish usage reports, but researchers say those reports leave out the messy parts. A new independent project called the AI Observatory dug into real chat data and found a very different picture.
AI firms are quietly buying up secondhand books by the thousands. Some are being destroyed to train chatbots.
A US court ruling cleared Anthropic to use purchased books for AI training. Now booksellers report a strange surge in sales of obscure titles, and court documents reveal a project with a goal to 'destructively scan all the books in the world'.
Police are misusing licence plate readers to stalk women. Flock's fixes have big holes in them.
The company behind 120,000 roadside cameras just updated its rules after officers used the system to track women. Critics say the changes don't go nearly far enough.
Sainsbury's setzt Gesichtserkennungs-KI nach zu Unrecht beschuldigtem Kunden auf Eis
Matt Arnold, 46, wurde aus einem Sainsbury's-Geschäft geworfen, nachdem das Gesichtserkennungssystem ihn fälschlicherweise als Ladendieb identifiziert hatte. Der Supermarkt hat die Technologie an diesem Standort nun vorübergehend unterbrochen, während er die Vorfalls untersucht.
Anthropic is watermarking Claude's text to comply with EU law, here's how it works
The company will embed invisible patterns in Claude's writing using a technique borrowed from Google. You won't notice a thing, but a detector will.
Australia's Teen Social Media Ban Report Used ChatGPT for Editing, Authors Admit
A $3.48 million government-funded study into age-checking technology contains citations to academic articles that do not appear to exist. The authors say AI did not invent them.
OpenAI löste sein Team zur Überwachung gefährlicher KI stillschweigend auf
Die Gruppe, deren einzige Aufgabe es war, Gefahren in OpenAIs eigenen Modellen zu erkennen, existiert nicht mehr. Sicherheitskritiker sagen, dass der Zeitpunkt aussagekräftig ist.
Anthropics CEO sagt: KI-Gegenreaktion ist ein Vertrauensproblem, kein Messaging-Problem
Dario Amodei wehrt sich gegen Kritiker, die sagen, dass seine Sicherheitswarnungen öffentliche Angst schüren, und argumentiert, dass das eigentliche Problem viel tiefer liegt als die Wortwahl eines Executives.