AI ethics in the headlines.

Officials around the world are pushing back on the rationale for the new import duties.

AI data center projects have divided the Republican rural community in states like Texas, and Democratic nominees are taking advantage.

The hacking of Hugging Face by a rogue OpenAI agent is significant, but unsurprising — and preventing the next AI model escape will be difficult, at best.

A roundup of the latest from Strategies & Voices, the official online publication of LMA. The post Marketing Roundup: Optimizing Content For AI Answer Engines, Revamping Your Operating Model, And More appeared first on Above the Law .

The state supreme court embraced a bright-line ethics rule despite concerns from the state bar. The post New Jersey Has A Message For Lawyers: Don’t Sleep With Your Clients appeared first on Above the Law .

Partnership between two groups has soured amid intense lobbying battle over rollout of autonomous vehicles

Filings from a recent lawsuit allege that the tech company accessed—and distributed—copyrighted adult films, blueprints for 3-D-printable handguns, celebrity deepfakes, and more.

Bots now outnumber humans on the internet for the first time in the web’s history. Cloudflare, the security firm that sits in front of millions of websites, says automated traffic crossed the 50 percent threshold in June and now accounts for nearly 58 percent of all webpage requests. A separate report from cybersecurity firm HUMAN […] This story continues at The Next Web

Kim Kardashian's new UPDATE campaign makes a punchline of the test she can't seem to beat -- and she's laughing all the way to the endcap. The post Only A Billionaire Could Fail The Bar Exam This Profitably appeared first on Above the Law .

By some metrics, things are looking up for the Providence Public School District (PPSD). Students are coming to class more often. Their standardized test scores are rising. And more of them are graduating high school. These are a few of the accomplishments the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) highlights in a 62-page report released […]

We've been hearing about doomsday, but Peter McCrory writes we "don’t see significant impact of AI on the U.S. labor market."

The DOJ conceded a string of errors in open court, then put out a statement accusing Arun Subramanian of overriding 'common sense.' The post DOJ To Judge: ‘No One Was Trying To Pull A Fast One.’ Judge: ‘These Things Are Starting To Pile Up.’ appeared first on Above the Law .

The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.

President Trump on Friday slammed the European Union for fining Google over allegedly violating its digital competition law, stating the "illegal and highly discriminatory practice" will be probed in a trade investigation. "The European Union is at it again and, as usual, taking direct aim at GREAT American Companies!" Trump wrote on Truth Social. "This...

SAP gave investors the number they wanted. Europe’s biggest software company said cloud revenue grew 22% to €6.28 billion in the second quarter, beating forecasts, SAP announced. Its cloud backlog, a measure of future sales, jumped 26%. The stock rose more than 6% in Frankfurt. That relief is the story. SAP’s shares are down about […] This story continues at The Next Web

Nothing tells a potential employer more than a 15-year-old review. The post Guy Posts His Obama-Era Biglaw Associate Reviews In Peak LinkedInMaxxing appeared first on Above the Law .

Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.

The new British prime minister is retaining Liz Lloyd in a cyber policy role, making her one of the few Keir Starmer allies remaining in government.

Las acciones de Tesla se  han hundido este jueves entre un 12% y un 14% , siendo uno de sus mayores desplomes en los últimos años. La caída llegó tras la publicación de los resultados del segundo trimestre, agravándose incluso más durante la conferencia con inversores, en la que Elon Musk reconocía que fabricar  sus robots humanoides Optimus a gran escala será mucho más complicado de lo que había prometido hasta ahora. Según datos recogidos

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. […]

Chinese regulators fined Trip.com Group Ltd. 5.18 billion yuan ($765 million), concluding that the country’s largest travel booking platform abused its market dominance after a monthslong ...

Japan’s Seven & i Holdings Co. has ended talks over a potential investment in Poland’s largest convenience store operator Zabka Group SA, even as it continues to look for expansion opportunities ...

The merged firm beat its own financial targets in year one, giving other merger-hungry Biglaw firms something to think about. The post One Year In, The HSF Kramer Merger Looks Like A Success With $2.4 Billion In Revenue appeared first on Above the Law .

BOSTON — Tatiyana Reaves got into trouble recently for writing a one-syllable word — and not the one you’d think. Taking a computer class at her Fayetteville, N.C., high school, she handed in a paper with the offending word: whilst. “[The teacher] called me over, and she was like, ‘I don’t want to see you […]

A recent uptick in lag and disconnects led me to reevaluate my home office setup. Here's how I validated my solution.

According to OpenAI, the Hugging Face security breach was an “unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities.” Critics may disagree. Back The post What really happened in the Hugging Face breach appeared first on The New Stack .

The regulations mark the final step in Kenya's effort to bring cryptocurrency businesses under formal regulatory oversight.

Following OpenAI’s models hacking Hugging Face, Gabriel Weil of the University of Houston Law Center argues that AI companies need strict liability rules

You have to consider long- and short-term efficiencies. The post Partners Should Sometimes Just Perform Work Rather Than Spend Time Delegating It To Associates appeared first on Above the Law .

Aligned with the new autonomy czar shop, the department plans to spend $250 million evaluating options and moving out with initial deals for its new Ground-Based Affordable Mass initiative.

Google Cloud announced it had put Cloud Run sandboxes into public preview earlier this month at WeAreDevelopers World Congress in The post AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Cloudflare now all offer agent sandboxes. None built them the same way. appeared first on The New Stack .

À l’occasion des 25 ans de Wikipédia, qui rassemblaient 1 200 personnes à Paris, Wikimédia France dresse 6 « priorités » déclinées en 28 « recommandations concrètes », qualifiées de « véritable feuille de route politique et législative pour bâtir un écosystème numérique transparent et pluraliste » favorisant, à l’horizon 2035, les biens communs numériques. […]

Bellingcat has geolocated footage showing Shahed-136 type kamikaze drones in operation in Mali. Defence Blog and France 24 previously published reports that these drones were being deployed on the battlefield in northern Mali. But Bellingcat and Jeune Afrique subsequently verified two recent strikes using geolocation, satellite imagery and expert analysis to provide some of the […] The post Shahed-Type Drones Filmed During Mali Village Attacks appeared first on bellingcat .

AI music transcription company Klangio is the dataset's first customer. Source

The agreement merges Oracle's product and licensing services into one contract, which the Defense Department estimates will result in at least $441 million in savings.

US tech groups and investors respond to calls for restrictions on advanced Chinese technology

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You will get data, but perhaps not knowledge

BlackRock-led deal meets investor anxiety over rising AI exposure

A look ahead at the key events leading the news agenda next week, from the team at Foresight News. The post News diary 27 July – 2 August: Apple and Meta results, Manchester mayor election and Commonwealth Games appeared first on Press Gazette .