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Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

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Potentially impacting all AI search engines and chatbots known to poorly paraphrase source links, a German court has ruled that Google is liable for false statements in AI Overviews. The preliminary ruling came in a case flagged by The Decoder, where two publishers found that Google’s AI Overviews incorrectly linked them to scams and other […]

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School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon

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The injured teenage survivor of a January 2025 shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee high school recently sued the manufacturer of an “AI gun detection” system that failed to detect the handgun that left two dead, including the shooter. According to the lawsuit, which was filed in Davidson County court last month, the security company Omnilert

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S&P 500 blocks fast SpaceX entry, won’t waive rule for unprofitable AI firms

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SpaceX has requested unusually swift entry into several leading stock market indexes as a condition of its historic stock market debut. But the S&P 500 stock market index representing many of the largest profitable US companies has surprised market analysts by refusing to bend the rules for Elon Musk’s space and AI company. The June

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“We pissed off a lot of people”: Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests

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One of the world’s biggest data center projects was designed to be nearly three times the size of Manhattan, stretching across multiple Utah sites. But intense local backlash in Box Elder County has now pushed the developer to cut the project plans in half before construction starts. Residents’ top concern was the Stratos data center

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Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling

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Critics hope to keep Elon Musk from escaping a strict data-privacy order imposed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shortly before he took over Twitter. The FTC order placed restrictions on X’s data use for 20 years, while requiring regular independent audits and granting the agency authority to request documents as needed to ensure compliance.

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Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out

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UK regulators today ordered Google to put clearer attributions and links to publishers’ content in its AI-generated search features. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also said Google must give publishers a way to opt out of AI features in search. “In a world first, publishers will now have effective tools to prevent their

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Trump plan to test AI models has a problem—US security teams were gutted by DOGE

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On Tuesday, Donald Trump finally signed his executive order expanding the government’s efforts to conduct voluntary safety testing of frontier AI models. Now, critics are warning that the order may be short-sighted, offering only performative reassurances that the government is actively monitoring for AI risks, while changing very little about how and when models are

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Trump plan to test AI models has a problem—US security teams were gutted by DOGE

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Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches

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Mathematicians warned against rising tech industry influence in a declaration describing the many challenges that AI poses to mathematics research. The timing of the declaration comes two weeks after OpenAI publicized one of its AI models as having disproved an 80-year-old mathematical conjecture in geometry. The declaration was developed by a working group of 16

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Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman after multiple ChatGPT-linked murders

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On Monday, Florida became the first state to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT’s allegedly dangerous design. In a complaint filed in state court, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier accused OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, of prioritizing profits over the safety of Floridians. The civil lawsuit comes after Florida opened an unrelated criminal probe into OpenAI,

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