AI ethics in the headlines.

Z.ai, the developer of the GLM family of AI models, has completed construction of a 1GW-class AI data center using only Chinese-made AI chips, with part of the facility already operating. The site is intended to support training and development of the company’s frontier models. Z.ai also operates several computing clusters containing more than 10,000 […]

Ausgew�hlte Tesla-Teams sollen Kameras am Arbeitsplatz tragen. Die Aufnahmen sollen dem Roboter Optimus beibringen, wie Menschen arbeiten. ( Gigafactory Berlin , Roboter )

Paytm will invest up to Rs 100 crore in Paytm Money as AI boosts engagement and monetisation across equity broking, margin trade funding and wealth products, supporting further expansion and growth. The post Why is Paytm doubling down on Paytm Money? appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

Community Colleges Rethink Program Value Joshua.Bay Tue, 07/21/2026 - 03:00 AM An initiative co-created by the Aspen Institute and the Community College Research Center helped 10 colleges move more than 20,000 students into programs leading to jobs and bachelor’s degrees. Byline(s) Joshua Bay

Podcast Host Debuts Book Club for Student Conduct Nerds Emma Whitford Tue, 07/21/2026 - 03:00 AM The first Just Desserts & Dissertations book club focused on how conduct procedures impact students’ sense of belonging on campus. Byline(s) Emma Whitford

New Data Shows How California’s Black-Serving Institutions Are Performing Sara Weissman Tue, 07/21/2026 - 03:00 AM The state added the BSI designation two years ago. Now, new research reveals heartening numbers on Black student attainment, as well as some areas for improvement. Byline(s) Sara Weissman

Border Surveillance Scholar Denied Tenure at UT Austin Emma Whitford Tue, 07/21/2026 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Emma Whitford

On Techpoint Digest, we discuss how South Africa wants every SIM card to be a digital ID, how the FCCPC won a fight to regulate loan apps, and how Starlink has officially launched in Côte d'Ivoire.

CloudZA works with companies to understand their legacy systems and schemas and then come up with smart ways to modernise these environments.

Before an organisation can improve its data environment, it needs an accurate view of the environment it already has, says Juan Joubert, product manager at Blue Turtle.

Listen to the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast to hear anthropologist April Nowell explain the origins of language.

France moves closer to banning children under 15 from social media, while Australia’s experience shows weak age checks, poor enforcement and persistent harms may undermine such restrictions. The post French parliamentary committee approves U-15 social media ban appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

Staff told positions will be cut via voluntary and targeted redundancies as part of ‘evolution’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s biggest media company, Nine Entertainment , has blamed the “extreme state of disruption” from AI for its decision to cut another 30 newsroom jobs at the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age. On Tuesday, the managing director of publishing, Tory Maguire, told staff the company wa

Research during Hungary election shows AI recommended parties not running and gave highly volatile answers to identical prompts AI chatbots provide inaccurate, inconsistent and unreliable guidance to voters asking which party they should back, a study suggests, often recommending the wrong party, not mentioning the right one, or listing parties not even running. “The results raise serious concerns about the reliability of general-purpose AI systems in electoral contexts,” the study , published b

It has been a busy year for Wall Street debuts. While a few IPOs have captured most of the headlines, 203 companies have begun trading on either the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq market so far in 2026. Many made splashy entrances, but their performance has been more uneven since the spotlight moved to the next major offering. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has gained 7.5% this year, while the S&P 500 has climbed 9%. New listings have been more of a mixed bag. In total, roughly 49% of the c

The proposal aims to provide a browser-based mechanism for measuring advertising performance without relying on cross-site tracking.

A subtle policy update shines a light on how Apple differs from Google.

New data shows why publishers are developing strategies around agentic traffic and brand visibility in AI answer engines.

US specialist venture firm Dimension Capital raises $800mn fund to back AI-designed medicines

Europe needs to avoid relying on an unpredictable Washington for strategic capabilities, says Henna Virkkunen

Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’ The UK will not have enough water for future datacentres, the water industry has said in stark criticism of the government’s AI growth plans. Datacentres rely on large amounts of water to manage the heat generated by densely packed servers. Cooling towers, chillers and humidification systems make direct use of this water, with large volumes also consumed indirectly through high electrical pow

Ant International, the affiliate of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, has raised about US$1.2 billion in a Series A funding round to fuel its global expansion, the company said on Tuesday. Existing backers Ant Group and Alibaba Group Holding joined the equity financing alongside several international institutional investors, whose identities were not disclosed. The fresh capital would be used to accelerate the firm’s international growth and drive innovation in merchant payments, account...

The agency is giving employees in its healthcare and insurance division another shot at opting into the deferred resignation program.

The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.

The English-first bias in technology must be addressed.

This year, China’s biggest AI conference showed an industry racing to cut computing costs, put AI agents to work, manage new risks, and find business models that can last.

Long before China imported soybeans from Brazil and the United States, the crop powered the country’s economy in the northeast, shaping industry, empire, and the fate of many small towns.

The country’s first regulations on AI companion services also set new limits on chatbots designed to simulate emotional bonds with users.

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Increased power costs add to challenges facing tech giant’s AI ambition amid high spending and mounting debt

As hospitals increasingly use AI to improve patient care, the same technology is being used by hackers and nation-states to launch faster, more sophisticated attacks. Karen Habercoss, chief information security and privacy officer at the University of Chicago Medicine, explained how her health system is building a governance structure to manage that risk. The post The Same AI That Helps Patients Is Being Used to Attack Them, Hospital Exec Says appeared first on MedCity News .

Biglaw is widening its net. The post T14 Degrees Aren’t All That Anymore… appeared first on Above the Law .

Chinese robotics companies lack both sufficient data and a good “brain” to improve the interaction of their products with the physical world, according to industry insiders at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), which concluded on Monday in Shanghai. The most critical challenge for the embodied AI industry was to “link hardware, data, models and real-world scenarios into a closed-loop iterative system”, said Wang Xiaogang, co-founder of SenseTime and chairman of its robotics...

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Iran's interior minister traveled to Pakistan, a key mediator in the conflict, for talks.

“The threat environment has changed" and the lines between physical and digital attacks have blurred, said one security expert involved in FIFA World Cup Planning.

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 […]

Your tour of all things related to lawyer and judicial ethics, with University of Houston law professor Renee Knake Jefferson. The post Legal Ethics Roundup: SCOTUS Justices Testify About Enforceable Ethics, 20 AGs Want Clark Discipline Challenge Dismissed, Law Democratized On LawNext & More appeared first on Above the Law .

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is requiring service members to screen for low testosterone levels. Ironically, the military lifestyle itself is more likely to lower T levels.

It's a step toward making alternative energy accessible on a smaller, renter-friendly scale.