The White House unveils a National AI Policy Framework aiming to override state AI laws with federal oversight, targeting risks like child safety and AI scams, but critics warn of internal contradictions that could undermine its effectiveness and raise doubts about Washington's ability to build the bipartisan consensus needed for …
Y Combinator-backed compliance startup Delve, valued at $300 million, is under fire from an anonymous whistleblower alleging it fabricates compliance evidence, potentially exposing hundreds of clients to criminal HIPAA liability and GDPR fines, while a security researcher simultaneously uncovers critical vulnerabilities in its systems.
Three Tennessee teens are suing Elon Musk's xAI, alleging the company's Grok image generator was knowingly released despite its ability to produce child sexual abuse material, with the lawsuit seeking class-action status for thousands of alleged victims who report severe psychological trauma.
EU lawmakers are pushing to ban AI-generated explicit images without consent as part of a landmark AI Act vote set for March 26, while also proposing to delay high-risk AI system rules until December 2026.
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping nearly 100,000 articles without authorization to train its AI models, while also accusing the company of trademark violations and revenue harm through AI-generated responses that replace their original content.
ByteDance halts the global launch of its AI video tool Seedance 2.0 after Hollywood studios, including Disney, fire off cease-and-desist letters over viral AI-generated clips depicting celebrities like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, forcing the TikTok parent company to overhaul its intellectual property safeguards before proceeding.
A Florida man uses ChatGPT to sell his home in just five days, receiving five offers within 72 hours and saving thousands in commissions by leveraging AI for pricing, marketing, and contract generation.
A federal judge grants Amazon a temporary injunction blocking Perplexity's Comet AI browser from accessing Amazon's website, citing strong evidence of unauthorized access, as Amazon claims the startup secretly used AI shopping agents to scrape its site and compromise customer data.
Nearly 10,000 authors, including Kazuo Ishiguro and Richard Osman, publish a deliberately empty book titled 'Don't Steal This Book' at the London Book Fair, demanding the UK government block AI companies from using copyrighted creative work without permission or payment.
Nielsen's Gracenote is suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, claiming the AI giant scraped its human-curated entertainment metadata without permission to train models like ChatGPT, despite repeated ignored licensing attempts.