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FBI arrests OpenAI employee accused of placing recording device in company conference room

WASHINGTON (AP) — An engineer at OpenAI has been charged with secretly installing a recording device...

Police confiscate robot that groped 16-year-old girl, probe whether young men were at the controls

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — German authorities opened an investigation into possible sexual harassment...

Cyberattacks hit European supermarket chains and disrupt refrigeration systems

PARIS (AP) — Cyberattacks disrupted European supermarket chains, affecting refrigeration systems at...

Rights groups urge social media platforms to resist Turkish orders to block accounts

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — More than a dozen human rights groups urged social media platforms, including...

Trump says Russia and Ukraine agree to an ‘energy ceasefire’ but Kyiv says attacks continue

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an “energ...

A timeline of developments in AI safety since the attack on Hugging Face

In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recent months have...

Anthropic's Claude AI submits a false tip on a Philadelphia unsolved homicide case

NEW YORK (AP) — An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to a Philadelphia...

FBI arrests suspect in ShinyHunters hack of the bureau's jobs portal

The FBI has arrested an accused co-conspirator of a criminal hacking group that said last month that...

OpenAI fires 3 safety researchers in dispute over AI risks

LONDON (AP) — OpenAI said on Friday that it fired three safety researchers for a “breach of trust,"...

A US charity plans to use AI to monitor its Gaza classrooms for 'hateful' speech

A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says...

Army finds systemic failures behind DC midair collision and calls for safety fixes

The U.S. Army found systemic safety breakdowns behind last year’s midair collision between an American...

Some guardrails on ChatGPT for Teens don't work as promised, watchdog group says

Some of the guardrails that OpenAI included in its ChatGPT for Teens product don't work as intended...

IMF chief urges countries to do more to curb debt and regulate AI

Countries both rich and poor must take faster action to cut debt and counter growing inequality as thei...

Personal information for over 1 million people stolen in a cyberattack on Arizona's court system

PHOENIX (AP) — A cyberattack on Arizona’s court system stole personal information for more than a million...

McDonald's sued over AI tool that recommends prices to US franchisees

McDonald’s is facing a federal lawsuit that alleges its AI-enhanced pricing tool violates antitrust...

AI industry insiders voice alarms to NYC council as local governments take up safety concerns

NEW YORK (AP) — Artificial intelligence insiders warned New York City's leaders about the dangers of...

Italy’s Meloni follows pop stars in seeking to trademark her voice to combat AI deepfakes

ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has applied to trademark her voice with the European Union’s...

A reckoning on social media addiction came late for many kids. Will AI safety be different?

Years after the risks of social media for kids first became apparent, U.S. states this summer reached...

Privacy concerns put smart glasses under scrutiny as Norway seeks temporary ban

A trip to the park. A day at the beach. A workout session at the gym. All in public spaces where smart...

Amazon to invest $1B into data center communities amid backlash against data center rollouts

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is investing more than $1 billion over the next five years into communities wher...

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