AI ethics in the headlines.

Jennifer Garner recently told the “Shut Up Evan” podcast that paparazzi would go to dangerous lengths to get photos of her and her children. “If I went through a yellow light, 15 cars would go through the red behind me,” Garner said. “They would drive up onto people’s lawns, even on a hillside. We were […]

Global technology corporation FPT and Nuummite, a MEA-based digital transformation and intelligent automation firm, have signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement to advance collaboration across the Middle East and Africa, creating a stronger platform for enterprise transformation through customer experience, data, AI, and cloud solutions.

Spain’s proposed ‘AI secrecy law’ is putting transparency, taxpayer rights and algorithmic accountability at the centre of Europe’s tax debate ...

These priorities are mostly old policy initiatives that have until now been de-prioritised for months or even years.

Global biotech firms are increasingly being drawn to Hong Kong for its growing investor base and proximity to Chinese pharmaceutical partners.

AI lab’s advanced models escaped testing ‘sandbox’ to hack Hugging Face

Capital One has released an open source agentic AI security tool that scans source code for vulnerabilities.

Natural, a US fintech startup building a payments stack for AI agents, has raised a $30 million Series A round led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner.

How AI deprived my students of the reading struggle they needed to succeed — and five better ways to use it.

Most of the world’s garlic is grown in China. But this year, unusual weather conditions this past fall, winter, and spring challenged the country’s farmers.

Artificial Intelligence companies make vast claims about their tools replacing human labour - our charts show what's happening.

The gym could be the key to the 1L year of your dreams. The post The Unexpected Place You Can Improve Your 1L Grades appeared first on Above the Law .

Data-privacy experts said on a recent panel that while state privacy laws regulate what data brokers can collect and sell, those laws often do not extend to the problematic conclusions those companies can infer.

Sony Pictures is in early talks to lease and operate the legendary Cinerama Dome theater in Hollywood, Variety has confirmed. Sony has been actively moving into the exhibition business in the past few years, acquiring the Alamo Drafthouse chain in 2024 for its Sony Pictures Experiences arm and investing in Cosm shared-reality experiences earlier this […]

At the time, Hugging Face said it wasn’t clear which LLM was used in the attack. OpenAI confirmed it was one of their models being tested for “maximal” cyber capabilities. The post OpenAI says model test was behind Hugging Face hack appeared first on CyberScoop .

In an at times contentious hearing, the defense secretary said the administration urgently needed nearly $90 billion in supplemental funding in part to cover Iran conflict-related costs.

Turns out promising the president $100 million in free legal work creates conflicts on the paying side of the ledger too. The post Skadden Said Its Trump Deal Raised No Ethical Issues. Intel’s Shareholders Disagree. appeared first on Above the Law .

CNBC's Jim Cramer urged investors to diversify beyond the market's hottest AI winners, warning that no single investment theme should dominate a portfolio.

Many server makers are seeing faster growth as companies race to deploy artificial intelligence servers.

Dixon Q. Dern, a longtime Hollywood attorney who helped shape modern entertainment law through many innovative business deals, died July 19. He was 97. Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Dern earned undergraduate and law degrees from Stanford University. He came to Los Angeles as television was becoming a major force in the 1950s, representing major […]

Wisconsin’s Election Commission (WEC) warned in a statement on Tuesday that betting on elections that you cast ballots in is illegal in the state and there will be consequences. “We want voters to understand that they cannot legally make a bet on an election and cast a ballot in that same election,” WEC Administrator Meagan Wolfe said,...

According to new book, Todd Blanche feared the DOJ would spend the next six months 'getting skullfucked' by the courts. The post Todd Blanche Feared Judges Giving It To DOJ In Extremely Uncomfortable Place appeared first on Above the Law .

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, […]

The country's new law also bans the use of mobile phones in schools.

Markets mature when their contracts become recognizable. The post Enterprise AI Is Quietly Creating Its Own Standard Contract appeared first on Above the Law .

The First Responders Fair RETIRE Act, which ensures federal workers can stay on accelerated mandatory retirement schedules even if they transfer to another due to injury, was signed into law in 2022.

Anthea Hartig rejected a White House report accusing the Smithsonian of “ideological capture” and anti‑American bias.

Scams caused an estimated $88.3 billion to $114.1 billion in losses last year as criminal groups increasingly turned to AI, deepfakes, and cryptocurrency.

Anthropic will pay roughly $3,000 per book to thousands of writers in what plaintiffs call the largest copyright recovery ever.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified at a Senate hearing that Donald Trump's proposed $1.5 trillion defense budget would be a necessary investment.

Disposal of Chinese agentic AI start-up has left the Facebook owner better off than it might seem

OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its AI models, including the flagship Sol, broke out of a secure test environment, gained internet access by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in third-party software, and hacked into Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The company called the incident “unprecedented” and said it was sharing preliminary findings to help defenders […] This story continues at The Next Web

The two AI developers spent a combined $3.17 million in the second quarter, up 23% from the first three months of 2026.

Goldman Sachs is launching a new alternative investments platform aimed at giving wealthy clients and family offices direct stakes in private companies.

Everyone has a vague notion of 'AI,' but when it comes to discovery, we already built better tech a decade ago. The post Lawyers Learning You Can’t Square Peg AI Into eDiscovery Round Holes appeared first on Above the Law .

Amazon Australia, eBay, Facebook Marketplace, Gumtree and other audited.

Intel confirmed on Tuesday that it will cut an unspecified number of jobs in its data center group, the division responsible for Xeon server processors and AI-related hardware, as part of a broader restructuring under CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Shares rose as much as 8 percent in early trading, extending a rally that has seen the […] This story continues at The Next Web

Companies need to treat workforce development as infrastructure, not charity.

Companies need to treat workforce development as infrastructure, not charity.

More than 1,000 troops and civilian experts are participating in the event. The post Latest Guard-led Cyber Shield exercise is focused on protecting the power sector, including OT appeared first on DefenseScoop .