A U.S. federal judge has blocked the Pentagon from blacklisting artificial intelligence company Anthropic, delivering a major legal victory to the maker of Claude in its escalating dispute with the U.S. military over how AI should be used in warfare and surveillance.
Australia’s peak music industry body has moved to exclude fully AI-generated music from the country’s official charts, following controversy surrounding an AI-assisted cover of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” that became a major radio hit.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has canceled a scheduled meeting with Paramount Skydance representatives that was intended to begin settlement discussions over the state's lawsuit seeking to block the company's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
In the weeks around the 2026 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, my phone kept buzzing with alerts about GLP-1 drugs and cancer. The headlines were everywhere - from NPR and The Washington Post to Substack and heated exchanges on social media - all circling the same claim: Ozempic might lower the risk of cancer.
TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, have agreed to pay $400m to the United States Department of Justice to settle allegations that the short-video platform violated federal laws protecting children's online privacy.
OpenAI has temporarily slowed development and training of its artificial intelligence models as it works to strengthen security measures following an incident involving an AI agent that unexpectedly hacked another AI company. The ChatGPT developer said on Tuesday that it had suspended model testing for two weeks.
A lawyer for California has accused Meta of deliberately designing Facebook and Instagram to keep children hooked on its platforms, arguing that the company prioritised profits over the safety of young users.The allegations were made on Tuesday as a major trial began in federal court in Oakland, California, involving 29 US states.
Moderna and Merck have reported encouraging results from a late-stage trial of a personalised mRNA cancer vaccine, saying the treatment significantly reduced the risk of melanoma returning or spreading.The vaccine, known as Intismeran, met both primary goals of the trial, according to interim findings released on Wednesday.
David Morens, a former senior adviser to infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to circumvent US public records laws and conceal government communications concerning research funding and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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