AI ethics in the headlines.

The Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) has launched a practical framework to guide pension scheme trustees, advisers, and administrators through responsible AI leadership.

Automated platforms can translate messages in seconds, but as a school principal, I've learned that true belonging requires a human connection ...

Two educators grapple with the same question from opposite perspectives.

Thrive Capital's Joshua Kushner and former Liberty Media boss Greg Maffei are involved in the controversial bid to buy a stake in a subsidiary of the non-profit that oversees the beloved World Cup soccer tournament.

In China, the AI boom that put actors and models out of work has found a new use for them. It is renting their faces. A growing set of platforms now pays people $15 to $700 to license their likeness for AI-generated content, Rest of World reported. Producers browse catalogues of faces by gender, age […] This story continues at The Next Web

Hollywood powerbroker Ari Emanuel rallied to the defense of his friend and business associate David Ellison, claiming that the state attorneys general trying to block Paramount’s Warner Bros. Discovery deal are threatening to “destroy” competition in the entertainment industry. Emanuel, who is CEO of TKO Group and former head of Endeavor, penned an op-ed published […]

A party-line vote in the Senate installed Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence, a job that has drawn increasing scrutiny during Donald Trump's second term as president.

The former SEC chairman will replace acting intelligence chief Bill Pulte, whose brief tenure oversaw repeated personnel cuts to the nation’s top spy office.

NEW YORK (AP) — A school district in a rural corner of upstate New York is hitting pause on plans to deploy an AI-powered, humanoid robot in the classroom after state education officials, teachers and local residents raised concerns, including the maker's ties to a company that produces hyper realistic sex bots. The Salamanca City...

Details have been released of an emergency call with hundreds of cyber-security experts after the ChatGPT hack of a tech company.

CNBC's Jim Cramer urged investors to take profits as stocks go parabolic, saying those explosive rallies often unravel just as quickly once momentum fades.

For a year, the story of Chinese AI has been simple. It is nearly as good as the American frontier, and it is effectively free. That second part may be about to change. Chinese developers could start charging cloud platforms commercial licensing fees to host their open-weight models, Goldman Sachs told the South China Morning […] This story continues at The Next Web

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NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk's social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, launched its own bank account-like product where users can send money to one another. The service, known as X Money, is not a new bank. X Money is using technology and banking services provided by Cross River Bank, and branding that...

CNBC's Jim Cramer said investors are rotating out of memory-chip winners and into companies with growth outside the data center buildout.

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.

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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.