AI ethics in the headlines.

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The offensive potential is no longer theoretical. We need to develop systems to strengthen public health as quickly as AI is accelerating biological design As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms the biological sciences, it is pushing the future of biology in two opposing directions. AI can help bad actors generate recipes for biological weapons with just a few keystrokes and computational prompts. At the same time, AI can track disease outbreaks and deliver critical public health informat

Some data suggest that artificial intelligence is causing job losses. Other sources show the opposite. Why is it so hard to figure out what’s going on?

“It’s not an argument with two sides, it’s an argument with 10 sides,” one senior administration official tells WIRED about how US AI policy is being shaped.

Key Senate Democrats are balking at the latest version of a cryptocurrency regulation bill over a White House-approved ethics provision that they argue falls short, complicating the bill's chances of passing in the narrow window before lawmakers leave town next month. Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), who leads the Senate Banking digital assets subcommittee, unveiled an...

A leading environmental economics journal is looking into claims that a 2025 study linking national innovation to lower carbon emissions contains data that does not match its source, after an expert in the field requested the paper be retracted. The article appeared in Ecological Economics, the journal for the International Society for Ecological Economics and … Continue reading Journal investigating apparent data mismatch in climate study

India's finance panel says the Securities Markets Code leaves many cryptocurrencies outside regulation and recommends dedicated legislation. The post Parliamentary finance committee calls for regulatory framework for virtual digital assets appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

MediaNama announces the first confirmed speakers for its Age Verification roundtable. Register now to attend the discussion on 31 July 2026. The post Speaker Announcement: Age Verification and Restricting Social Media for Children, Delhi, 31 July #NAMA appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

The acquisition formalises a relationship that began in 2021 when Zedcrest participated in Leatherback’s $10 million pre-seed funding.

More than 20 countries are joining a Trump administration initiative to coordinate next-generation wireless policy, standards and security before 6G reaches consumers.

Show me a farmer, said Mike Burdick, vice president of Sabanto, an autonomous tractor startup in Itasca, Illinois, and I’ll show you someone who has a million things he or she just doesn’t have time to do in the course of their workday. He’ll also show you a farmer who wouldn’t mind having their tractor ghost-ride across their fields as they take care of the endless work of being a modern farmer.  That’s one of the central observations that has driven the growth of Sabanto’s autonomous tech

The current maelstrom of discussion surrounding the use of open-source software and open-weight AI models appears to be splitting opinion The post Nvidia, Palantir, Hugging Face join 34 others in race to defend open-weight AI from cyber threats appeared first on The New Stack .

The rulings suggest that lenders operating without a CBK digital credit provider licence may struggle to enforce loan contracts, raising the commercial risks of lending before obtaining regulatory approval.

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A corporate fad of “tokenmaxxing” on artificial intelligence technology is hitting its limits as workplaces throwing AI at everything are seeing the costs rise without a similar spike in productivity.

Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday, leading to the appointment of Pralhad Joshi as the new education minister while the PM announced a task force led by Nandan Nilekani to make exams more transparent and tech-driven The post Dharmendra Pradhan resigns, exam reform task force announced: CJP protest updates appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

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The academic’s ambitious guide to the ethics of tech falls short of its promise to provide meaningful answers The AI ethicist Eleanor Drage believes that to thrive alongside artificial intelligence, humans need to recognise AI’s “humanity”. She means that while we often speak of AI as though it were some mystical, formless thing, it is the product of hours of human labour, in silicon and quartz mines, microchip factories and data labelling centres. If citizens want to wrest power from the t

Taiwan produces the world’s most advanced semiconductors, yet the island’s own military is only in the opening stages of adopting artificial intelligence systems. This mismatch bears directly on Taiwan’s ability to deter Chinese aggression.Beijing is pushing to develop and field sophisticated AI-enabled military capabilities. Given China’s focus on “reuniting” with Taiwan, the Taiwanese military could be the first to contend with the People’s Liberation Army’s emerging defense technologies durin

A U.S. federal case involving GrapheneOS's duress password feature could redefine digital privacy and border phone search laws. The post U.S. man prosecuted over alleged use of phone’s Duress password at border appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

This is the central question: should clients expect price cuts from law firms and other legal businesses due to legal AI? Because if there is ...

Svalbard is a stark archipelago of glaciers and coal mines lying 650 kilometers (403 miles) north of Norway’s North Cape, roughly halfway between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole. It belongs to Norway but is governed under a 1920 treaty that grants nationals of more than 40 signatory states sweeping economic rights while barring Oslo from constructing naval bases or using the archipelago for “warlike” purposes. Far to the south, in the Baltic Sea between the Finnish and Swedish coasts,

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China’s largest DRAM maker, raised RMB57.92 billion ($8.6 billion) in its Shanghai STAR Market IPO on July 27, in what became the largest mainland semiconductor offering on record. By the midday break, its shares had risen 531% from the IPO price, pushing its market value to RMB3.66 trillion and making it […]

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Building a Road Map for First-Gen Students Joshua.Bay Mon, 07/27/2026 - 03:00 AM The University of Houston–Downtown’s First-Generation Gator Program combines mentoring, scholarships and family engagement to help students navigate college. Byline(s) Joshua Bay

Can Outcomes-Based Financing Help Solve the Loan Crisis? jessica.blake@… Mon, 07/27/2026 - 03:00 AM In an interview with Inside Higher Ed , Ethan Pollack, a senior director at Jobs for the Future, discusses how these loans work and why they might help address today’s challenges. Byline(s) Jessica Blake

Workforce Pell Is Live. How’s It Going for States? Sara Weissman Mon, 07/27/2026 - 03:00 AM As states work to implement the new policy, only a trickle of programs have qualified. But experts say it’s too early to tell Workforce Pell’s full impact. Byline(s) Sara Weissman

A new SOC service gives companies enterprise-level cyber security defences.

Local customers are realising that AI and agentic AI are likely to be a complementary technology, augmenting the work humans do, says Paul Field, professional services/managed services BU leader at CASA Software.

PM Modi has announced a Nandan Nilekani-led task force to reform the NTA, strengthen exam security, improve transparency, and recommend structural and technological changes. The post PM Modi ropes in Nandan Nilekani to lead task force on exam reforms appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

The services include a design-on-demand offering and user experience audits that meet stringent procurement and governance requirements.

As organisations prepare for AI-driven ways of working, the quality, governance and life cycle of information have become business-critical considerations.

Research shows AI accounts are gaining millions of views on TikTok by spreading dubious health advice Misleading health claims online pose a “huge danger to public safety”, experts have warned, after research has shown that AI-generated doctors are gaining millions of views on TikTok by spreading dubious health advice. The British Medical Association council deputy chair, Dr Emma Runswick, flagged the risks posed by AI accounts that “peddle medical myths and promote so-called miracle cures”. Con

Trois actualités à retenir cette semaine dans le cyberespace : des agents d'OpenAI qui ont piraté Hugging Face en toute autonomie, une faille noyau critique débusquée par Claude Mythos, et le récit d'une course contre la montre chez OVHcloud pour colmater une vulnérabilité vieille de 16 ans.

Tech group becomes China’s most valuable listed company in mainland’s biggest IPO since 2010

This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars , a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. The most critical component to actually fielding high-energy laser weapons at scale isn’t the diode pump, or the gain medium, or the beam director. It isn’t even the power source. In reality, it may actually be this tiny fiber-optic converter. On July 23, defense technology company Attalon—formed earlier this year from the spin-off of American laser com

Rising expenditure from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft reflects growing battle over federal policy

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The Hulu crime drama “Furious” may be (loosely) inspired by the 1987 thriller “Black Widow,” but the series has several other, and frankly stronger, influences at work. After all, in swapping out a serial killer of rich men she marries for money in favor of a child trafficking victim who targets her former abusers, creator […]