More Americans now believe AI does more harm than good as concerns grow over the technology’s long-term impact, according to a recent survey. A Bentley University-Gallup survey released Tuesday showed 39 percent of respondents said they believe AI does more harm than good, compared with 31 percent who said so in 2023. When asked if...

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Two Democrats on the Senate Special Committee on Aging sent letters to tech giants Meta, OpenAI and X asking what safeguards the companies have in place to protect “at-risk users,” while AI scams are on the rise across the United States. In the letters, Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) noted cognitive changes...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized the centralization of AI development on Tuesday, arguing the future of the technology should not be controlled by a limited group of major players. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, the tech mogul focused on the prospect of superintelligence, or AI that can surpass human intelligence. "The defining question of...

An OpenAI agent compromised a customer of another technology company, the New York-based firm Modal Labs announced Wednesday. In a technical timeline posted Tuesday, the tech startup Hugging Face explained how an OpenAI agent escaped the AI firm's isolated testing sandbox and accessed another testing environment "hosted by a user of a third-party infrastructure provider."...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has banned imports of foreign-produced humanoid robotic devices and power inverters, citing “national security” as its primary concern. The devices were added to the FCC’s covered list, meaning the products posed an “unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or the safety and security of United States...

Anthropic and OpenAI backed an employee-led initiative on Tuesday asking the U.S. government to "deliberately pace" frontier AI development. More than 1,200 employees have signed on to the statement, which underscored that the world's leading AI companies could be close to automating AI research and warned that development could move beyond human understanding and control....

Russian authorities said Wednesday they had charged Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram, with aiding terrorism, the latest step by the Kremlin to bring the internet and digital communications under its control. The charges against the Russian-born Durov, who lives abroad, came as authorities have sought to restrict the...

NEW YORK (AP) — A school district in a rural corner of upstate New York is hitting pause on plans to deploy an AI-powered, humanoid robot in the classroom after state education officials, teachers and local residents raised concerns, including the maker's ties to a company that produces hyper realistic sex bots. The Salamanca City...

A federal judge on Monday halted a prediction market ban in Minnesota days before it was set to roll out.  District Judge Katherine Menendez wrote that the Trump administration, Kalshi and Polymarket are “likely to succeed on the merits” in the case arguing that the state ban is pre-empted by federal law.  “Specifically, it appears...