Policy

A proposed artificial intelligence pledge ahead of the COP31 climate talks is under fire from critics who say it sets no firm goals and leaves signatories to police themselves.

In a New York Times expert roundtable, AI Now’s Kate Brennan argues governments should keep harmful AI products off the market, as they do with drugs and planes.

Critical bugs in PHP, the language behind much of the web, have forced sites from DeviantArt to government agencies offline while they rush to patch.

Meta softened new terms for business accounts after publisher backlash, but legal experts say the wording could still let it use scraped site content for AI.

Travis Knight, director of Laika’s stop-motion film Wildwood, says generative AI is at odds with his studio’s handmade work, while still seeing benefits in medicine and science.

Three leading AI companies had their biggest-ever lobbying quarter this summer, federal filings show, as they work harder to shape AI rules in Washington.

Meta has paused a feature for sharing Muse AI conversations after security researchers found that shared chats could be discovered and opened by strangers.

A before-and-after photo Donald Trump shared of a White House column was flagged by Google’s SynthID detector as made or edited with OpenAI tools.