A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.

Partisan websites disguised as independent, local news outlets are shaping chatbots’ responses about key races.

The verdict could, "in theory," result in an award of about $219 billion in civil penalties, Attorney General Raul Torrez said in a news conference Friday.

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

An unreleased Pentagon probe investigated the kill chain that hit a school in Minab.

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The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

The remarkable revelation comes after previous warnings about countries such as Russia possibly weaponizing a global frontier long agreed in treaties to be used for only peaceful purposes.

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While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

The pending transfer of the 2,000-pound munition, involved in scores of incidents resulting in civilian casualties, sets

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SILICON VALLEY - The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and GrokAI have released a statement agreeing that claiming artificial intelligence "could potentially kill all humans" sounds much more awesome than ju...

The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.

Water is one of the most commonplace, essential substances in the human world.

Talarico’s comments on Fox News came in contrast to positions he took in the Texas House opposing GOP restrictions on trans student-athletes.

Emissions of planet-heating methane and CO2 from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis, paper says

404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.

Students in the nation's largest school district return to classrooms next week.

Legislation to make it easy for Californians to install plug-in solar panels is headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he’s removing Flock camera from state roadways.

MapQuest is getting an unexpected boost from its decision to defy President Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario.

Gene editing reduced cholesterol by about 50% in an extremely small sample of patients over a year of follow-up, according to a new research update.

To make its workforce “AI native,” Meta explored slashing the size of many teams across the company by as much as 60% in two waves, internal documents show. Staff revolted - and hours before a big lay...

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In a move that could help drastically slow the advancement of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared C2N Diagnostics' PrecivityAD2 blood test for patients as y...

The class action suit claims that Amazon never obtained consent from Twitch streamers to be used to train its AI models.

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...

3D assets marketplace CGTrader is being flooded by AI slop, but nobody is buying it, suggesting AI isn't "repricing the market."

The six month moratorium on major electrical infrastructure projects is the latest tactic meant to delay the massive data center meant to support America’s nuclear weapons.

"There is simply nothing fair about a company using theft to build for purely commercial purposes a multi-billion dollar business while those from which they steal receive nothing," Round Hill said.

In July 2026, prolonged hot and dry conditions in western Europe led to the spread and intensification of extreme wildfires. The month also saw the highest sea surface temperature (SST) ever recorded ...