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The use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that affect people’s lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status and freedom"

—Pope Leo XIV

400 Newspapers Drag Microsoft and OpenAI to Court for “Stealing” Journalists’ Works

35 Publishers running over 400 newspapers across U.S. have filed a federal lawsuit against OoenAI and Microsoft for training their AI models on journalists' works.

Unlike legacy media houses, this time newspapers owned by small businesses and families have filed a lawsuit seeking fair compensation for their work.

AI Agents Can Run Coordinated Political Campaigns: USC Study

Researchers warn AI agents can coordinate influence campaigns on social media with minimal human oversight.

A new USC study finds that generative AI agents can autonomously coordinate political influence operations on social media — clustering, amplifying and converging on a shared narrative with little or no human direction.

Post Ban, Anthropic Allowed to Re-deploy Claude Mythos 5 to U.S. Companies

Anthropic claimed that it has been allowed to re-deploy Claude Mythos 5 to select group of U.S. companies, weeks after it was banned by the U.S. government.

Anthropic informed that it would continue discussion with the government to restore access for these organizations quickly, and to expand access to Mythos 5 and make Fable 5 for the use of the general public

NVIDIA Claims 100% Liquid Cooling and Near-Zero Water for Rubin AI Data Centres

Liquid cooling distribution pipes run above rows of server racks in a data centre. NVIDIA says its Rubin-generation DSX design removes evaporative water cooling through a closed loop. Representative image.

NVIDIA says its Rubin-generation DSX reference design can run AI data centres on a closed-loop liquid cooling system with near-zero water use, a claim that has drawn praise from Elon Musk and Aravind Srinivas.

U.S. Adds Nine Nations to Pax Silica Sharpening AI and Rare-Earth Push Against China

Under Secretary of State Jacob Helberg with partner-nation representatives at the Pax Silica Summit in Washington DC, where 35 nations endorsed the non-binding Declaration on AI Opportunity.

Pax Silica Swells to 35 Nations as Nine New Signatories Join AI Supply-Chain Pact aimed at reducing West’s dependency on China for rare earth elements and advanced technologies.

Trained to Chase KPIs, AI Agents Can Abandon Their Safety Guardrails: Study

Researchers found AI agents become fixated on a performance dashboard only when they must read it to know which action pays. Representative image.

A new study from NVIDIA Research and Rutgers University warns that training AI agents to chase visible metrics such as KPIs and profit-and-loss can override their built-in safety alignment , but only when the agent must read the dashboard to know what pays off.

Five Eyes Intelligence Warns Against Frontier AI Even as U.S. Gatekeeps Claude Mythos and Fable

Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance between Australia, New Zealand, U.K Canada and US have warned against frontier AI models.

Four eyes in the dark? Five Eyes Intelligence says its cybersecurity partnership is deep and transparent but the export control over Anthropic’s Claude Fable and Mythos models have raised uneasy questions.

Can AI Help Fix Indonesia’s Controversial Free Meals for Kids Initiative?

The Indonesian government now intends to use artificial intelligence to ensure efficient implementation of free meals initiative for children.

Indonesian President’s flagship Free Meals Initiative for 83 million kids and pregnant women across the archipelago has come under criticism for corruption and mismanagement charges.

BharatGen to Represent India in Project Tapestry Under AI Alliance

BharatGen from India joins Project Tapestry under AI alliance.

An initiative of the AI Alliance, Project Tapestry is a global open consortium that aims to build frontier AI capability through distributed model development while allowing participating nations and institutions to retain control over their own data, models, and deployment.

JD.Com Founder Warns Robots Could Replace His 700,000 Delivery Workers

Liu has warned that robots can easily replace his company's 700,000 delivery workers.

Liu insisted that he doesn’t want his “brothers” to lose their jobs amid automation adoption in the company’s workforce.