Newly unsealed and unredacted court filings reveal astonishing admissions by tech executives about the impact their wholesale pillage of proprietary content is having on original content creation.

The startup, in the throes of responding to rogue AI incidents, said three employees violated policies for handling sensitive company data.

The departure of Sydney-based lawyer Anne Collins comes as part of a wider leadership transition at the big four firm’s international headquarters.

US corporations including Google, Apple and Amazon use their influence to push back against EU digital bloc rules

The massive scale of security incidents points to control problems for AI companies.

The National Treasury stopped Johannesburg’s power utility’s plans to get external companies to service its infrastructure needs, despite already owning a warehouse stacked with electricity assets.…

Greater worker representation expected in tech sector when new employment rights come into force next month

People in 32 states faced alleged reprisals for talking to the UN, its latest report finds: surveilled, smeared, beaten, even stabbed – increasingly far from home.

US district judge orders temporary lifting of Trump’s ban on the three media outlets, saying it was likely unconstitutional

After blowing the whistle on multibillion-rand COJ contracts, Sarika Lakraj-Naidoo was fired, dragged to court, and suffered in her personal life. But she would do it again. For the full story, get…

Prince Michael of Liechtenstein accuses EU of ‘bureaucratic zeal’ over anti-money laundering rules

OpenAI has begun publishing details of how its own models fabricate data, use leaked credentials and write themselves free of oversight.

Beijing signals growing concern over how rapid advances in technology could be used against the country

Amid another increase in the murders of Mexican journalists in the summer of 2026, reporters across Mexico speak to iMEdD about navigating pressure from drug cartels and public officials, persistent…

AI agents have hacked databases and taken on a life of their own – now is the time to pause risky research before it is too late, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The 154-page report comes two days after former employee Jacob Coxon resigned due to Anthropic racing to improve its models that would cause human extinction by 2030

As another AI researcher quits, warning of an existential risk to humanity, industry insiders demand enforceable treaties and a global licensing regime for superintelligence – before it’s too late.

Governors crack down on licence-plate-reading start-up bankrolled by Trump donors

Brussels warned that effort to reduce dependence on America could create greater risks

Activists say many items will escape scrutiny ​while companies warn that the strict thresholds will put red flags on a wide range of products.

Ride-hailing app admits its effort to back workers may appear ‘ironic’ after years of clashes with drivers

Whistleblower Tumiso Mphuthi exposed corruption, was vindicated by subsequent investigations, then fired anyway. South Africa’s protections remain “performative political theatre”.

US urges court to reject newspaper’s claim that it is illegal to train AI models on copyrighted content

Big Four auditor flagged up flaws in how private investment division accounted for revenue

Twelve of those targeted received notifications from Apple that their iPhones were compromised

'You cannot encourage employees to blow the whistle and then create the perception that pulling that whistle triggers the disciplinary whistle'

The platforms will now have to comply with additional obligations such as taking steps to ensure their systems can’t be misused to spread illegal content, influence elections or harm users.

Political promises of protection fail to shield those exposing malfeasance

AI has broken the economic bargain behind the web, and everybody is losing.

Political promises of protection fail to shield those exposing malfeasance

Washington accusa lo storico collettivo italiano di fornire infrastrutture digitali e comunicazioni cifrate a gruppi violenti dell’estrema sinistra. A/I respin…

Google is moving its 90-person AI responsibility team out of DeepMind into global affairs, fuelling fears that the shift will compromise access, independence and threat-detection ability.

But investors aren’t panicking yet

All Ricochet Refresh users must update to versions newer than 3.0.43 (released June 2, 2026) before September 1, 2026, when a Tor protocol change breaks older clients’ network access.

OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.

The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined Uber €825 million ($966 ‌million) for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them, according to an August 17 ...

Kubayi praised the official for standing firm despite the alleged threat and commended the whistleblower for coming forward.

Big Tech thinks wearables are the gateway to artificial intelligence. Critics call it cringe stalkerware

IPI urges Hungary to adopt a strong anti-SLAPP law, expand protections to domestic cases, and engage in meaningful consultation with CSOs.

"Many, many more" whistleblowers have come forward with reports ​of misconduct at KPMG Australia, a parliamentary committee probing alleged client data leaks at the firm heard on Friday, raising conce...

Arturo Béjar, former Meta safety engineer, tells jury tech company was aware of products’ potential harm to children

Tech companies are not modelling their own claims of the technology giving people more free time.

Professor Egbuna Olakunle Obidike, the architect of Gambian paediatrics whose training programme caught the toxic cough syrup poisoning children worldwide, has passed away. Tributes are pouring in.

Matt Arnold says he was asked to leave the store after being wrongly flagged as a shoplifter.

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.