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Trump Spent 10 Hours Posting AI Images and Claimed He Made 'Hundreds of Billions' on Stocks for America
The president flooded Truth Social with AI-generated pictures on Sunday, alongside financial claims backed by no evidence. Senators have already asked regulators to look at a $100,000-a-month Trump feature that gives paying subscribers early access to market-moving announcements.
Australia wants to let you turn off the algorithm. Here is what that means.
The Australian government plans to force social media platforms, search engines and AI chatbots to give users a real off-switch for personalised feeds. The prime minister is already expecting a fight.
Publishers and agents are claiming money from the Anthropic copyright settlement that may not be theirs
Authors who expected a $3,000 payout per pirated book are finding publishers claiming rights they lost years ago, and literary agents grabbing percentages they were never owed.
China Is the Data Center Villain That Techies Love to Blame. The Evidence Disagrees.
Polling shows three-quarters of Americans now oppose local data centers. Politicians and tech figures point at China. But social media researchers say the anger is entirely homegrown.
America's AI Data Centers Run on Chinese Parts. Washington Wants to Change That.
From the boxes that regulate electricity to the cables that carry data, a surprising share of the hardware keeping US AI facilities running comes from China. Costs and delays loom if that changes fast.
An 'off switch' for algorithms is not enough. Tech companies need a legal duty of care
Governments keep reaching for easy fixes: ban kids from social media, add an opt-out button. Campaigners say that misses the point entirely, and the real target should be the addictive design baked into the platforms themselves.
The World's Top AI Bosses Are in One Room. Here's What They're Saying.
Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic and more descended on Chapel Hill for the G20 Innovation Ministerial. Elon Musk predicts AI grows the global economy by a third. David Sacks says data centres can actually cut your electricity bill.
Microsoft Says Copilot Almost Never Copies News Articles Word for Word. Publishers Aren't Convinced.
New court filings show Microsoft analysed 8.2 million chat logs to prove its AI assistant rarely reproduces copyrighted text. The legal battle with The New York Times and book authors is far from over.
Workers Worried About AI Job Loss, But Most Haven't Lost Their Jobs Yet
A new academic paper finds that fear of AI-driven unemployment spread widely in the first years of generative AI, even as actual large-scale job displacement lagged behind the anxiety.
Meta Drops AI Usage Quotas for Staff But Rolls Out a Powerful New AI Agent
Workers no longer get graded on how much they use AI tools. But a new agent called Hatch, which can browse the web and run apps on their behalf, is quietly racking up even more computing resource than the chatbots it replaces.
Lawsuit demands Trump administration reveal its secret AI safety review process
A nonprofit has sued four federal agencies to force them to disclose how the government vets powerful AI models before they go public, and who is involved in writing the rules.
AI Is Doing the Grunt Work That Used to Turn Beginners Into Experts
When AI handles the entry-level jobs, junior workers get less practice at the skills that take years to build. Aviation and nuclear engineering figured out this problem decades ago. Here is what they learned.
New York City Will Ban AI Tools in Public Schools Up to Year 8
Nearly 900,000 students across NYC's public schools will face new technology limits, as the district moves to keep AI out of classrooms until high school.
OpenAI Faces 30 New Lawsuits Over Canada School Shooting, Accused of Choosing Silence Over Safety
Students, teachers and a principal from Tumbler Ridge are suing OpenAI in California, claiming the company knew its chatbot was being used to plan violence and said nothing.
The UK Government Has No Idea What Its Biggest Data Centres Are Actually Doing
A freedom of information request revealed that ministers cannot say who is using the UK's largest data centres or why. With AI driving a surge in electricity and water use, that gap in oversight matters.