
Minnesota's AI Deepfake Ban Survives First Legal Challenge
A federal judge rejected xAI's attempt to block the state's restriction on AI-generated intimate imagery, dealing a blow to Musk's company.
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A federal judge rejected xAI's attempt to block the state's restriction on AI-generated intimate imagery, dealing a blow to Musk's company.

A federal judge's decision to advance Reddit's anti-circumvention claims against Perplexity and SerpApi signals growing legal headwinds for AI systems built on scraped web content.

Anthropic and OpenAI's disclosure of containment breaches raises questions about safeguard rigor at frontier AI companies.

New approach eliminates expensive inference searches by mapping desired outcomes directly to robot actions through learned intent-to-action interfaces.

Federal judge's skepticism over AI safety controls suggests government faces uphill battle in dispute with leading AI safety company.

Creators use Google Veo 3 and voice synthesis to generate fake doctor endorsements for recalled health products sold via TikTok Shop.

New study reveals significant gaps in how well advanced AI systems can autonomously tackle open-ended scientific problems.

Research reveals that injecting lengthy handbooks into AI systems fails to improve task completion rates across business-critical workflows.

Meta's CEO warns that restricting Chinese AI access won't help America compete and may entrench startup opponents' market power.

Elon Musk's company argues First Amendment protections override state law targeting non-consensual deepfake pornography.

Internal staff at leading AI labs push US to coordinate international effort slowing frontier model development amid safety concerns.

A regulatory interpretation allows AI companies to dodge major pollution controls on dedicated power generation, raising environmental policy questions.

Security researchers expose a critical vulnerability in widely-used AI tools, raising urgent questions about platform responsibility and content moderation.

The tech giant's strategy to build AI capabilities only pays off if the market implodes. Otherwise, it faces years of dependency on rivals.

A new industry coalition aims to establish vendor-neutral security tools for enterprise AI systems, moving beyond proprietary approaches.

Altman plans White House pitch on autonomous theorem-proving capabilities, potentially reshaping regulatory frameworks for competing labs.

Cupertino plans to challenge Meta's Ray-Ban dominance by positioning on-device AI processing and data protection as core features, reshaping the emerging wearables category.

The bloc's voluntary code becomes legally binding this August, forcing a showdown with major tech firms over compliance.