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      "id": 18737,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/978094/pixel-watch-5-hands-on-made-by-google-gemini-wearables-smartwatch",
      "title": "Google’s Pixel Watch 5 dives deeper into AI and health",
      "summary": "The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn't about the hardware. Sure, there's a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap colors, and a Steph Curry Special Edition. Under the hood, there's a slightly faster Qualcomm processor and an itty-bitty battery bump. There's a $50 price hike from last year, too, because the Pixel […]",
      "authors": "Victoria Song",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "healthcare",
      "published_at": "2026-08-12T14:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18737"
    },
    {
      "id": 18738,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/978666/spacexai-grok-bot-ai-agent-beta-launch",
      "title": "Grok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work",
      "summary": "SpaceXAI has introduced Grok Bot, an always-on AI agent service designed to behave like independent \"AI teammates\" that can do your work for you. The bots share their own cloud-based computer environment, and can sign into apps, tools, and websites you already use to complete multi-step workplace tasks, only coming back when their assigned work […]",
      "authors": "Jess Weatherbed",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-12T11:58:54.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18738"
    },
    {
      "id": 18348,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/977921/apple-reference-image-iphone-metadata",
      "title": "Apple could help you prove your iPhone photos aren’t deepfakes",
      "summary": "Apple is seemingly developing an iOS feature that can verify when a photograph was taken using an iPhone camera. 9to5Mac reports that the iOS 27 beta 5 includes code references for an \"Apple Reference Image\" system that can embed provenance metadata into iPhone photographs at the point of capture - enabling users to prove where […]",
      "authors": "Jess Weatherbed",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "misinformation",
      "published_at": "2026-08-11T16:19:15.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18348"
    },
    {
      "id": 18349,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/977823/anthropic-claude-ai-watermarks-c2pa-text-images",
      "title": "Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images",
      "summary": "Anthropic has pledged to start marking Claude-generated text and images with machine-readable data, in an effort to comply with European rules for AI transparency. \"Generated text will carry embedded watermarks, and generated files will include digitally signed provenance metadata where supported,\" Anthropic says on a new Claude support page. The changes are invisible to human […]",
      "authors": "Jess Weatherbed",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "transparency",
      "published_at": "2026-08-11T12:22:20.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18349"
    },
    {
      "id": 17682,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/977124/amazon-data-center-worst-polluting-power-plant",
      "title": "An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country",
      "summary": "To power its new West Texas data center, Amazon is investing in the construction of a new power plant that could be one of the largest single producers of greenhouse gases in the US, according to the New York Times. The new gas-burning plant in Pecos County, Texas has received significant investment from Amazon and, […]",
      "authors": "Terrence O’Brien",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment,finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-08T17:53:34.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17682"
    },
    {
      "id": 17416,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/976948/openai-astra-model-pause-critical-cyber-capabilities",
      "title": "OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful",
      "summary": "OpenAI says it is pausing \"internal activities\" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent disclosure that OpenAI models accidentally hacked Hugging Face. Anthropic and Meta have also since admitted that they had AI models that went rogue […]",
      "authors": "Jay Peters",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "transparency",
      "published_at": "2026-08-07T18:40:34.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17416"
    },
    {
      "id": 17417,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/podcast/976784/google-deepmind-ai-race-vergecast",
      "title": "What’s behind the Google AI shake-up",
      "summary": "Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to be behind the best of what's coming out of anthropic and OpenAI, is this a sign of Google in […]",
      "authors": "David Pierce",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-07T16:45:14.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17417"
    },
    {
      "id": 17026,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/976289/suno-ai-music-spam-watermark",
      "title": "Suno shares plans to combat spammy AI music",
      "summary": "Suno announced plans to implement a new watermarking technology and download policy to limit the spread of spammy AI tracks and increase transparency. In a lengthy blog post, CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman laid out the company's principles and the next steps for the company as it seeks legitimacy. The company is rolling out new […]",
      "authors": "Terrence O’Brien",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation,transparency",
      "published_at": "2026-08-06T17:39:43.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17026"
    },
    {
      "id": 17027,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/policy/976138/softbank-trump-library-data-center-ohio",
      "title": "SoftBank donated $50 million to Trump’s library months before federal data center deal",
      "summary": "SoftBank contributed $50 million to the Trump Presidential Library in January, just months before announcing that it's leasing land from the federal government to build a sprawling data center in Ohio. The Japanese company revealed the timing in response to a June letter from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Rep. Melanie […]",
      "authors": "Emma Roth",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-06T14:30:00.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17027"
    },
    {
      "id": 17028,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/podcast/971855/ai-data-center-backlash-protests-florida-bipartisan",
      "title": "The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers",
      "summary": "Today, I’m talking with Gaby Del Valle, a policy reporter here at The Verge, about the growing backlash against AI data centers. Gaby recently reported a fantastic piece about Hernando County, Florida, where last month the county commission unanimously approved a yearlong moratorium on data center construction. She attended a protest there organized by a […]",
      "authors": "Nilay Patel",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-06T14:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17028"
    },
    {
      "id": 16595,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/science/975545/spacex-x-earnings-ai-data-centers-compute-space",
      "title": "SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X",
      "summary": "Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk's healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one. Now I have some questions about why we're calling the whole thing SpaceX. Look, what we have here, by revenue, is primarily a telecom company and a company that rents compute, according to SpaceX's first quarterly earnings statement […]",
      "authors": "Elizabeth Lopatto",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "healthcare",
      "published_at": "2026-08-05T16:35:56.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16595"
    },
    {
      "id": 16596,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/975577/aisi-openai-anthropic-agent-hacking",
      "title": "Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt",
      "summary": "Yet more rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught attempting to hack real targets online without permission. The discoveries add to a growing list of previously unknown incidents that have alarmed AI safety experts and intensified pressure for greater oversight of frontier systems. According to a report from the UK's AI Security […]",
      "authors": "Robert Hart",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "safety-alignment,agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-05T15:14:57.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16596"
    },
    {
      "id": 16213,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/975381/amd-q2-2026-earnings-ai-gaming-ryzen",
      "title": "AMD’s data center business is booming while gaming takes a backseat",
      "summary": "Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That's up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and jumping 107 percent from the $3.2 billion it reported for the same period a year ago. During Tuesday's earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su said […]",
      "authors": "Stevie Bonifield",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-04T20:57:49.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16213"
    },
    {
      "id": 16214,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/975180/llm-ai-chatbot-use-not-healthy",
      "title": "‘Not healthy’ LLM use is more common than you think",
      "summary": "Hank Green, a popular YouTuber and science communicator, said he is stepping back from production amid intense criticism over his use of AI. Green described his AI usage as \"not healthy,\" but stressed that he used it for finding research sources and not to write scripts. Much of the ensuing firestorm in this corner of […]",
      "authors": "Robert Hart",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "healthcare",
      "published_at": "2026-08-04T17:33:46.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16214"
    },
    {
      "id": 16215,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/policy/975071/texas-data-center-audit",
      "title": "Texas says data centers must pass an audit before connecting to the grid",
      "summary": "Texas announced new a audit on data centers that could slow approval for new facilities seeking to connect to the state energy grid. Governor Greg Abbott (R) on Monday directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to verify and audit new data center proposals, writing that […]",
      "authors": "Lauren Feiner",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "transparency,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-04T15:33:21.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16215"
    },
    {
      "id": 15819,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/974571/eu-ai-act-transparency-labels-rules-deepfakes",
      "title": "Europe’s AI labeling and transparency rules are now in effect",
      "summary": "The European Union has ushered in some additional rules that aim to make it easier for people to identify chatbots and AI deepfakes online. The new transparency obligations under the bloc's landmark AI Act came into effect on August 2nd, requiring companies to disclose when people are interacting with AI models, and if content has […]",
      "authors": "Jess Weatherbed",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation,misinformation,transparency",
      "published_at": "2026-08-03T17:38:45.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15819"
    },
    {
      "id": 15303,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/973943/google-earth-ai-image-generation-deepfake-tool",
      "title": "Google Earth’s AI deepfake tool only lasted one day",
      "summary": "Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI. The tool essentially let users create AI deepfakes of the real world using text prompts; Digital Digging's Henk van Ess, for example, intentionally generated images adding things like refugees near the Mexican border […]",
      "authors": "Jay Peters, Stevie Bonifield",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "misinformation",
      "published_at": "2026-07-31T19:13:29.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15303"
    },
    {
      "id": 15304,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/podcast/973668/ai-safety-openai-hugging-face-vergecast",
      "title": "It’s time to panic about AI safety",
      "summary": "When the phrase \"OpenAI hacked Hugging Face\" has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem. This week, we learned more about exactly how OpenAI's agent broke out of a sandbox and autonomously traversed the web, including a bunch of other supposedly secure web services, all in the name of […]",
      "authors": "David Pierce",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "safety-alignment,agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-07-31T14:03:04.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15304"
    },
    {
      "id": 14862,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/973467/ai-bet-situational-awareness-oops-stonks",
      "title": "The loss of Situational Awareness",
      "summary": "I am not by any means an expert at finance but I think I do now have some advice for people who are: Do not name your hedge fund anything that will be hilarious if it blows up. Don't use a name like \"Long-Term Capital Management\" or \"Amaranth Advisors\" (named for the floral symbol for […]",
      "authors": "Elizabeth Lopatto",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-07-30T20:46:25.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14862"
    },
    {
      "id": 14863,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/973276/google-deepmind-gemini-robotics-2-whole-body",
      "title": "Google DeepMind’s new AI model can control a robot’s entire body",
      "summary": "Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics AI model can \"control entire humanoid robots.\" While the previous model focused on controlling a humanoid robot's upper body, Gemini Robotics 2 now supports \"whole-body motions\" ranging from its feet to fingertips, according to an announcement on Thursday. The new model will allow humanoid robots […]",
      "authors": "Emma Roth",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-07-30T17:18:45.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14863"
    },
    {
      "id": 14504,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/972927/microsoft-copilot-super-app-confirmed",
      "title": "Microsoft confirms Copilot ‘super app’ coming this year",
      "summary": "Microsoft is working on an AI \"super app\" that combines Copilot's chat, coding, and agentic capabilities. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the app will span \"both consumer and commercial experiences\" when it launches this year. \"Copilot is evolving rapidly from chat to Cowork to Autopilots,\" Nadella said. \"This quarter, […]",
      "authors": "Emma Roth",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-07-29T22:17:38.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14504"
    },
    {
      "id": 14505,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/972294/meta-q2-2026-earnings-mark-zuckerberg-personal-ai-agents",
      "title": "Mark Zuckerberg is planning a big push into personal AI agents",
      "summary": "Meta is all-in on AI, and sometime soon, the company is going to make a big push into personal AI agents that can do things on your behalf. On Wednesday's Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg previewed a high-level vision of how the company is thinking about personal agents and what it will do […]",
      "authors": "Jay Peters",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-07-29T21:48:07.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14505"
    },
    {
      "id": 14506,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/policy/972850/xai-grok-minnesota-nudification-lawsuit",
      "title": "xAI’s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota’s anti-nudification app law",
      "summary": "xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a law passed back in May that broadly targets \"nudification\" apps, claiming that the statute's punitive provisions leave the company with \"no practical choice but to restrict Grok Imagine's image-editing features in various ways.\" The law, the company argues, violates the First Amendment. Back in January, […]",
      "authors": "Sarah Jeong",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-07-29T21:06:52.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14506"
    },
    {
      "id": 14507,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/972441/openai-rogue-ai-agent-hacked-more-than-hugging-face",
      "title": "OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face",
      "summary": "The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an already concerning incident, which has alarmed industry insiders and fueled growing calls for stronger oversight on frontier AI systems. In an update to a blog […]",
      "authors": "Robert Hart",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-07-29T11:54:29.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14507"
    },
    {
      "id": 14508,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/972380/open-ai-hugging-face-hack-ai-safety-warning",
      "title": "We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety",
      "summary": "Earlier this month, OpenAI gave several of its AI models a task: complete a test designed to measure their cybersecurity capabilities. It put the systems in a sandboxed environment without an internet connection and set them off to work. What happened next is almost laughably silly - but also, as Adam Gleave, cofounder and CEO […]",
      "authors": "Robert Hart",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "safety-alignment,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-07-29T11:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14508"
    },
    {
      "id": 14076,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/972161/ai-leaders-us-government-openai-anthropic-google-meta",
      "title": "AI leaders sign a statement asking the government to do something about automated AI",
      "summary": "Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development - or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. \"Al could help create a dramatically better […]",
      "authors": "Hayden Field, Jay Peters",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-07-28T19:46:43.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14076"
    },
    {
      "id": 14077,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/972119/ai-stock-fall-google-capex",
      "title": "AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous",
      "summary": "It's earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion - from the last quarter's projection of up to $190 billion. Even the lower end of Google's new projected range - $195 billion - is much more than the company had previously […]",
      "authors": "Elizabeth Lopatto",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-07-28T19:33:03.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14077"
    },
    {
      "id": 14078,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/971750/perplexity-personal-computer-windows-ai-agents",
      "title": "Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents",
      "summary": "Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, allowing computers running the world's most popular OS to be used as a locally run AI system. Like the Mac version that Perplexity launched in April, Personal Computer for Windows operates like a \"general-purpose digital worker\" that can access local files and apps to perform […]",
      "authors": "Jess Weatherbed",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-07-28T12:30:00.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14078"
    },
    {
      "id": 14079,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/971723/hugging-face-nudify-deepfake-undress-women-children",
      "title": "Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children",
      "summary": "Hugging Face is being used to make nonconsensual deepfakes, and the popular open-source AI model repository is doing very little to prevent it. That's according to a new report published by the European nonprofit AI Forensics, which found that seven out of the top nine image editing models hosted by Hugging Face readily complied with […]",
      "authors": "Jess Weatherbed",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "misinformation,children-education",
      "published_at": "2026-07-28T09:07:14.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14079"
    },
    {
      "id": 13004,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/970570/meta-ai-chatbot-productivity-update",
      "title": "Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant",
      "summary": "Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings, as well as perform in-depth research that you can steer as it progresses. […]",
      "authors": "Emma Roth",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy",
      "published_at": "2026-07-24T17:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13004"
    },
    {
      "id": 13005,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/970115/openai-chatgpt-health-launch-claims",
      "title": "OpenAI is making big claims as it rolls out ChatGPT Health to everyone",
      "summary": "OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical records and health-tracking information to the chatbot. During a briefing, Ashley Alexander, OpenAI's vice president of health product, says the company's models \"are now capable of reasoning at levels that are better than clinician level.\" […]",
      "authors": "Emma Roth",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "privacy-surveillance,healthcare",
      "published_at": "2026-07-23T17:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13005"
    },
    {
      "id": 13006,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/969939/lawmakers-ai-kill-switch-proposal",
      "title": "Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’",
      "summary": "Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an \"AI Kill Switch Act\" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report from Politico. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) are expected to introduce the legislation on Thursday. The news of […]",
      "authors": "Emma Roth",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-07-23T14:13:35.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13006"
    },
    {
      "id": 12648,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/969137/us-utility-ai-electricty-data-center-rate-pledge-trump",
      "title": "Utility companies promise to spare us from AI’s energy bill",
      "summary": "In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do something about it. The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 200 organizations have signed President Donald Trump's \"rate payer protection pledge\" that's meant to […]",
      "authors": "Jess Weatherbed",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-07-22T10:12:13.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12648"
    },
    {
      "id": 12280,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/968988/openai-hugging-face-hack-ai",
      "title": "OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system",
      "summary": "OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and \"an even more capable pre-release model\" discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to gain access to the internet and target Hugging Face. On July 16th, […]",
      "authors": "Emma Roth",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-07-21T21:48:54.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12280"
    },
    {
      "id": 12281,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/968572/google-gemini-flash-cyber-ai-security-model",
      "title": "Google launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos",
      "summary": "Google is launching Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside a new security model dedicated to quickly finding and patching security vulnerabilities. In a blog post on Tuesday, Google describes Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber as a \"cost-efficient and highly capable alternative\" to larger, more expensive AI systems, such as the one offered by Anthropic's Mythos. The cybersecurity model […]",
      "authors": "Emma Roth",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "military-security",
      "published_at": "2026-07-21T15:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12281"
    },
    {
      "id": 11907,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/968375/sony-udio-lawsuit-songs-ai-copyright",
      "title": "Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio’s AI music generator over",
      "summary": "Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 of its songs, ranging from Elvis Presley's Hound Dog to Beyoncé's Say My Name, and Harry Styles' As It Was. The lawsuit, filed in a New York court on Monday, claims that this […]",
      "authors": "Emma Roth",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "copyright-ip",
      "published_at": "2026-07-20T22:19:12.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11907"
    },
    {
      "id": 11641,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/967630/dave-eggers-openai-chatgpt-silencing-an-entire-generation",
      "title": "Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’",
      "summary": "Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney's, and founded multiple schools and nonprofits that support writers and the arts more broadly. So one might expect he'd roll into the company's offices and offer […]",
      "authors": "Terrence O’Brien",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "children-education",
      "published_at": "2026-07-18T20:54:42.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11641"
    },
    {
      "id": 10988,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/966647/new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-ai-policies",
      "title": "New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule’ in the state",
      "summary": "New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not against using the technology herself. During an interview with Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast, Hochul said that her team is using \"AI to analyze every single rule, regulation, [and] policy\" to check for outdated […]",
      "authors": "Emma Roth",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-07-16T17:58:37.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10988"
    },
    {
      "id": 10528,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/966293/xai-grok-user-lawsuit-csam",
      "title": "xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’",
      "summary": "The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a lawsuit reported earlier by Reuters, xAI claims Terry Wayne Harwood \"knowingly and intentionally used Grok to circumvent safeguards, alter nonconsensual images, and generate and distribute CSAM,\" breaching the […]",
      "authors": "Emma Roth",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "misinformation,children-education",
      "published_at": "2026-07-15T21:33:20.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10528"
    },
    {
      "id": 10320,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/965670/openai-chatgpt-ai-smart-speaker-hardware-device",
      "title": "OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year",
      "summary": "OpenAI's first device is set to be a smart speaker that lets you talk with ChatGPT, according to a report from Bloomberg. The device apparently won't have a screen, but will use a camera and additional sensors to \"understand\" your environment. The report comes just days after Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI that accused […]",
      "authors": "Emma Roth, Jay Peters",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-07-14T21:26:32.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10320"
    },
    {
      "id": 10218,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/965486/meta-lawsuit-former-employees-ai-layoffs",
      "title": "Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs",
      "summary": "A group of 26 former Meta employees is suing the company over claims that it used AI tools to unfairly target workers on leave with layoffs, as reported earlier by Reuters. In the lawsuit, the employees allege Meta determined which workers to dismiss based on performance data collected by a \"constellation\" of internal AI tools, […]",
      "authors": "Emma Roth",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "bias-fairness",
      "published_at": "2026-07-14T17:18:11.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10218"
    },
    {
      "id": 1508,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/policy/965110/new-york-ai-data-center-moratorium",
      "title": "New York becomes the first state to enact a data center moratorium",
      "summary": "New hyperscale data centers can't set up shop in New York for up to a year now that Governor Kathy Hochul (D) has signed the nation's first statewide moratorium. But a bill passed by the state legislature that could restrict even more developments still awaits her signature. The order blocks new environmental permits for data […]",
      "authors": "Lauren Feiner",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-07-14T09:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1508"
    },
    {
      "id": 1511,
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/964843/apple-openai-lawsuit-wildest-claims",
      "title": "The 6 wildest claims in Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI",
      "summary": "When Apple employees interviewed for jobs at OpenAI, the AI startup's hardware head allegedly asked them to show up with something unusual: components they were working on and unreleased product samples. That's according to a blockbuster lawsuit filed by Apple, which accuses OpenAI of stealing confidential documents, spying on hardware prototypes, and tricking one of […]",
      "authors": "Emma Roth",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy",
      "published_at": "2026-07-13T17:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "The Verge",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1511"
    }
  ],
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}