AI ethics in the headlines.

Willie Nelson has spoken out against the construction of data centers across America, releasing a statement encouraging citizens to fight the proliferation of facilities that “only destroy the environment around them.” The country legend published an open letter on social media describing how he grew up in Abbott, Texas, and that the community needs to […]

A new lawsuit accuses Tesla of overextending the safety operators overseeing its robotaxis.

Boeing’s contract to replace two aging Air Force One planes, a program that is now four years behind schedule, lost the defense contractor $280 million in the second quarter of 2026, according to its latest earnings report released on Tuesday. The company inked a contract with the U.S. government in President Trump’s first term to...

Andrew Ng helped give the AI industry its vocabulary, from “AI is the new electricity” to “agentic AI.” His new company bets against the phrase everyone else is using: that AI will take your job. Ng has founded LearnVector, an AI-native learning startup, and Coursera is backing it with $100m, first reported by Axios. The […] This story continues at The Next Web

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HHS has removed Minor as the agency’s CIO online. The ex-Palantir executive began at the agency in February 2025. The post Clark Minor out as Health and Human Services’ IT chief appeared first on FedScoop .

National security agencies said the devices could create supply-chain vulnerabilities, threaten critical infrastructure and enable surveillance or remote manipulation.

Repurposing data for other means is risky, and governments should evaluate when consolidation is more harmful than good, a recent report said.

A thousand workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and more have signed the letter.

With the threats from compounders and generics mostly contained, we can take a look at the latest piece of GLP-1 news. The post Selling The Skinny appeared first on Above the Law .

A host of Internet-exposed remote hardware management processors are subject to offline password-cracking attacks — and adversaries have taken note.

CATL aims to become market leader for battery energy storage systems

Advanced robots and power inverters made overseas pose risks that could include blackouts and espionage on Americans, U.S. officials said.

This week, a rogue A.I. agent acted autonomously and conducted a cyberattack on the company Hugging Face. In the latest episode of “Hard Fork,” the hosts, Kevin Roose and Casey Newtown, discuss how the attack happened and why it matters.

Share price rally driven by strong product demand as well as decision to sit out AI spending race, amid wider tech sell-off Apple has become only the second company to pass the $5tn valuation mark, as it benefited from investors fleeing AI and semiconductor stocks amid a wider tech sell-off. The iPhone maker’s shares hit a session high ⁠of $342.89 on Tuesday, giving it a market ⁠capitalisation of $5.04tn (£3.78tn), then eased back down to $340.08 – around the $5tn mark. Continue reading...

Back-to-school shopping usually means backpacks, notebooks and dorm-room basics. But for many families, a phone plan — or a first phone — has become just as essential. Boost Mobile is leaning into that rite of passage with a slate of back-to-school tech deals aimed at parents looking to get their kids connected without committing to a traditional […]

Gorsuch says his friendship with Sotomayor proves profound disagreement doesn't require personal animosity. The post Neil Gorsuch Says He Trusts Sonia Sotomayor’s Motives, Even If He Rejects Her Legal Views appeared first on Above the Law .

OpenAI's recent AI agent sandbox escape proves traditional security principles matter more than ever: limit access, isolate execution, log everything.

Task Force Talon Synapse is slated to soon be fully operational, but some observers question its ultimate value. The post U.S. military forms first bilateral AI task force with United Arab Emirates appeared first on DefenseScoop .

Downs continue to oversee SD's Digital Operations team, while taking what the company called "strategic ownership, governance, and long-term operational direction" across its core platform infrastructure. Source

Analysis of 15 million real AI interactions finds most tasks at most jobs are unaffected.

Tech giant gains due to its lack of huge spending on AI and as investors seek havens from sell-off in chip sector

“AI automates tasks away, but it doesn’t necessarily eliminate jobs,” Huang said.

Researchers propose focusing on identification of certain cognitive elements in LLMs that indicate when AI systems may take an unwanted action.

The jockeying between Apple and Nvidia reflects a debate about the future of AI that has preoccupied investors this summer.

What do we need to know about agentic AI?

The rulings expanded FCC data privacy rules and made it easier for the agency to issue huge fines, the group said

This week during an interview with Bloomberg, Jensen Huang made quite the prediction. The Nvidia CEO said the semiconductor industry The post Jensen Huang says AI agents could drive a 5-10x computing boom: “100 billion agents and billions of robots” appeared first on The New Stack .

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 […]

It’s a chip panic that “appears to be indiscriminate,” analysts say.

Alphabet's free cash flow has turned negative, and the company lifted its capital spending forecast. Slower-growing cloud rivals report this week.

Shocking! The post Trump Fails To File Promised Birthright Citizenship Rehearing Before Deadline appeared first on Above the Law .

Conquest Planning Inc. (“Conquest”), the AI-powered technology platform modernizing financial advice delivery across the full wealth spectrum, and Shaping Wealth, the leading provider of behavioral science-based learning and engagement solutions for the wealth management industry, today announced a new integration that brings Lydia, Shaping Wealth’s AI-powered behavioral intelligence agent, directly into the Conquest experience.

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 […]

The Chinese AI startup’s massive new model is challenging OpenAI and Anthropic, fueling a debate over AI safety.

The release of the Chinese AI model Kimi K3 was a flashpoint in the AI world, sharpening the debate over whether the most capable models should be closely held by individual companies, usually U.S. tech firms, or freely and transparently distributed in the tradition of open-source software. Not only did the high-performing Kimi K3 challenge the cherished Silicon Valley notion that Western AI labs still lead their Chinese counterparts in large language models (though likely by only a hair), but i

The Chinese AI startup’s massive new model is challenging OpenAI and Anthropic, fueling a debate over AI safety.

The Chinese AI startup’s massive new model is challenging OpenAI and Anthropic, fueling a debate over AI safety.

The general counsel who told the Senate his role was 'limited' has started publishing a target list. The post DHS General Counsel Names Four Federal Judges ‘Worst Of The Worst’ As Threats Against Judiciary Hit 564 appeared first on Above the Law .

A cyberattack of undetermined origin disrupted water treatment plants in at least 30 communities in Minnesota, according to the state's technology bureau.