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The 'AI Consciousness' Debate Is a Legal Escape Hatch for Big Tech
When AI companies hint their systems might be sentient, they may be building a case to dodge responsibility for real-world harms. Here is why that matters for everyone, not just lawyers.

UK Cinemas Eye Ban on Meta Smart Glasses Over Film Piracy Fears
The trade body for British cinemas says local chains are weighing policies to keep camera-equipped smart glasses out of screenings, as venues worry the devices make covert recording dangerously easy.

OpenAI is bringing ads inside ChatGPT to 31 European countries
Free and Go users in Germany, France, Italy and 28 other markets will start seeing sponsored placements. Paid plans stay ad-free.

OpenAI pledges $5 million to help government watchdogs keep up with AI
The company says human reviewers can't manually check systems that run at machine speed, and is offering tools, training and credits to the bodies meant to hold national security AI to account.

Anthropic's Invisible AI Watermarks Were Cracked in Four Hours
The EU's new content-labelling rules forced Anthropic to watermark every Claude response. Developers tore through the system before the news cycle ended. Here is what that means for workers, writers, and anyone who uses AI tools.

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.

Meta ran ads for an app that made deepfake porn of politicians. Again.
A tool called Kromix bought ad space on Meta's platforms promising 'no restrictions' and showing a woman resembling a sitting US politician in a pornographic video. Meta's policies already ban this. They ran the ads anyway.

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.

Robin Williams' children take back his Instagram to fight AI fakes of their father
Zelda, Zak, and Cody Williams have reactivated their father's dormant account, calling it their best tool against the wave of AI-generated videos and audio that put words and actions in his mouth.

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.

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'.

Microsofts AI-Chip-Bestand stimmt möglicherweise nicht überein, Untersuchung findet
Eine Untersuchung des Guardian behauptet, es gebe eine Lücke zwischen dem, was Microsoft über seine AI-Rechenleistung sagt, und der Anzahl der fortgeschrittenen Chips, die es tatsächlich betreibt. Hier ist, was das bedeutet und warum es wichtig ist.