
The Hill - 1 hour 11 min ago
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) on Wednesday expressed concern about the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI). "I am still freaked out by AI, and it's actually accelerated much more quickly than I thought possible," the fourth-ranking House Democrat told The Hill's Miranda Nazzaro at the second-annual Hill Nation Summit. Lieu said Congress should consider how...

The Hill - 1 hour 27 min ago
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) on Wednesday expressed concern about the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI). "I am still freaked out by AI, and it's actually accelerated much more quickly than I thought possible," the fourth-ranking House Democrat told The Hill's Miranda Nazzaro at the second-annual Hill Nation Summit. Lieu said Congress should consider how to...

Digital Music News - 1 hour 51 min ago
The Australian government has announced plans to develop a comprehensive artificial intelligence regulatory framework featuring training-related protections for artists and others. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed his government's "Australian Standards for AI" in a Sydney University speech today. As things stand, the "clear, consistent, and mandatory" requirements at hand are still in the works; with […]...

NY Post - 2 hours 48 sec ago
The United Arab Emirates is getting broader access to prized US artificial intelligence chips after becoming a key military partner during the conflict with Iran.

The Guardian - 3 hours 14 min ago
Challenges of regulating social media or stopping hate speech show these firms can set their own terms and prices for countries like Australia Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese took a trip back in time during his much anticipated speech on artificial intelligence on Wednesday. Seeking to harness the momentous change bearing down on our lives, the prime minister told an audience at the University of Sydney that his government would keep pace with AI, even...

The Guardian - 3 hours 14 min ago
Prime minister's plan will create energy regulations for datacentres in Australia Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Environmental and community groups have called for a pause on datacentre development until new regulations are in place after Anthony Albanese promised "greater clarity and speed" over their approval. In his landmark speech on artificial intelligence at the University of Sydney on Wednesday, the prime minister said Australia would create a legal...

NPR - 4 hours 3 min ago
Lagging consumer spending and business investment offset the boost from strong exports thanks partly to the boom in artificial intelligence.

The Guardian - 5 hours 46 min ago
The Star Wars director has called AI technology the future' of film-making and advised there's nothing you can do about it' Star Wars director George Lucas has added his voice to the growing chorus of film-makers receptive to the rising use of AI tools in moviemaking. Speaking in an interview with A Rabbit's Foot , Lucas, 82, said: "Artificial intelligence means it's much easier for us to make movies." Continue reading...

New York Times - 7 hours 12 min ago
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the new data center requirements at the University of Sydney on Wednesday.

Mother Jones - 8 hours 14 min ago
OpenAI and its revolutionary chatbot ChatGPT have single-handedly accelerated AI's boom and threatened to upend much of how we work, create, learn, and communicate in the process. But when OpenAI was founded a decade ago, the company's approach to artificial intelligence wasn't taken seriously in Silicon Valley. Tech journalist Karen Hao has been covering OpenAI's […]...

TechRadar - 8 hours 51 min ago
SAS finds EU SMBs are seeing better results from real-world AI deployments Compliance is still a major headache for one in four leaders Preparing for the EU AI Act could have helped A new AI readiness report from SAS has claimed European small businesses are among the most ready to achieve the most ROI from artificial intelligence compared with other global regions. While North American SMBs perform better in planning, building and enabling, they fall short on actual deployment, indicating that...

The Independent - 9 hours 37 min ago
A group of 26 Meta employees has sued the company, claiming it used artificial intelligence systems that disproportionately targeted those on medical or family leave for layoffs...

ABC News - 11 hours 47 min ago
A group of 26 Meta employees has sued the company, claiming it used artificial intelligence systems that disproportionately targeted those on medical or family leave for layoffs...

The Guardian - 11 hours 57 min ago
PM lays out plan for datacentre development and rejects prospect tech companies will be given free use of Australian data Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese has promised "the strongest possible protection" for Australian creatives against misuse of their work by artificial intelligence models, warning it would be "theft" if writers, artists and musicians didn't have control of their...

TechRadar - 13 hours 10 min ago
UN SecretaryGeneral calls for a global ban on autonomous "killer robots" Guterres argues that delegating life-or-death decisions to machines is "morally repugnant" Governments should take a stance now not wait for something catastrophic to happen UN Secretary General Ant nio Guterres has called for lethal autonomous weapons, which he describes as killer robots' to be prohibited under international law following recent discussions at the first Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence...

Newser - 17 hours 15 min ago
Meta is facing a first-of-its-kind legal challenge over how it allegedly used artificial intelligence to decide who lost their jobs, Reuters reports. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Oakland, 26 anonymous employees say Meta relied on internal AI-driven tools and productivity metrics to rank staff for layoffs, a...

Nature - 18 hours 15 min ago
Games have long been a microcosm for studying planning and reasoning in both natural and artificial intelligence, often focusing on expert-level or even super-human play1–6. But real life also pushes human intelligence along a different frontier, requiring people to flexibly navigate decision-making problems that they have never thought about before. Here we use novice gameplay to study how people reason about new problem settings. Through a series of large-scale behavioural studies with over...

The Guardian - 18 hours 38 min ago
Lawsuit filed by dozens of employees says people who took maternity or disability leave were disproportionately selected for layoffs Dozens of Meta employees have sued the social media company over claims that it used artificial intelligence tools to tag workers for mass layoffs. The workers allege that those AI tools targeted them after they asked for protected or maternity leave or disability accommodation. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in the northern district of California, points...

The Hill - 19 hours 16 min ago
Anthropic on Tuesday launched a free version of its chatbot geared specifically towards teachers, as a growing number of educators utilize artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom. In a release, the company said its Claude for Teachers platform will provide K-12 teachers in the U.S. access to a library of teaching skills and a direct...

The Guardian - 21 hours 21 min ago
Chief executives of Australia's 100 biggest companies earned a median $4.8m in the 2025 financial year. Follow today's news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Luca has more on ACSI's CEO pay report, which reveals that Life360's founder Chris Hulls was the top-paid chief executive of an Australian-listed company in 2025's financial year. Hull earned $47.7m in realised pay, which was about 437 times more than the average Australian full-time adult...

NPR - 22 hours 15 min ago
What's it like to grow up and learn in the age of AI? NPR put that question to seven teenagers across the country.

The Guardian - 23 hours 58 min ago
Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history' A group of major publishers have filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of illegally using millions of copyrighted books to help build its Gemini artificial intelligence models, in "one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history". The case, filed in federal court in New York, has been brought by three publishers Hachette...