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Senate Passes Bill Letting Deepfake Victims Sue for Up to $250,000
RegulationFeb 9, 2026

Senate Passes Bill Letting Deepfake Victims Sue for Up to $250,000

The DEFIANCE Act cleared the Senate unanimously, creating a federal right to sue creators and distributors of nonconsensual sexually explicit AI forgeries.

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Washington State Weighs AI Disclosure Rules as Consumer Groups Push for Stronger Protections
RegulationFeb 9, 2026

Washington State Weighs AI Disclosure Rules as Consumer Groups Push for Stronger Protections

Consumer Reports warns proposed legislation contains critical loopholes that could undermine transparency requirements for synthetic media.

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Publishers Seek Court Sanctions Against OpenAI for Deleting Evidence
RegulationFeb 9, 2026

Publishers Seek Court Sanctions Against OpenAI for Deleting Evidence

Major news organizations allege OpenAI destroyed millions of ChatGPT logs that were critical to their copyright infringement case, asking a federal judge to instruct jurors to assume the worst.

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California's New AI Safety Law Collides With Trump Deregulation Push
TechnologyFeb 5, 2026

California's New AI Safety Law Collides With Trump Deregulation Push

A month-old transparency mandate for frontier AI models faces federal preemption as developers scramble to comply with conflicting requirements.

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TikTok Labels 1.3 Billion AI Videos, Tests Feed Controls
CultureFeb 5, 2026

TikTok Labels 1.3 Billion AI Videos, Tests Feed Controls

The platform is rolling out sliders that let users dial down synthetic content in their For You page, but finding them requires digging through settings.

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OpenAI Exodus: Senior Staff Leave as Company Shifts Hard to ChatGPT
BusinessFeb 5, 2026

OpenAI Exodus: Senior Staff Leave as Company Shifts Hard to ChatGPT

Multiple departures from video and image teams reveal tensions as the $500 billion company abandons experimental research for immediate commercial gains.

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Google's Project Genie: The Promise of Interactive Worlds to Explore
TechnologyFeb 2, 2026

Google's Project Genie: The Promise of Interactive Worlds to Explore

The experimental AI prototype generates playable 3D environments from text prompts, triggering a 15% gaming stock selloff.

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Rise of the Moltbots
TechnologyFeb 2, 2026

Rise of the Moltbots

A brief glimpse into an internet dominated by synthetic AI beings.

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Anthropic Bets Models Are Smart Enough To Reason Towards Alignment And Safety
TechnologyJan 30, 2026

Anthropic Bets Models Are Smart Enough To Reason Towards Alignment And Safety

The AI company released a vastly expanded constitution for its language model, shifting from rigid constraints to philosophical reasoning about ethics and safety.

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Adobe's Firefly Foundry lets studios train AI on their own IP
TechnologyJan 26, 2026

Adobe's Firefly Foundry lets studios train AI on their own IP

Major entertainment companies are building custom generative AI models trained exclusively on their proprietary content, with Adobe providing the infrastructure through a new platform announced at Sundance.

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EU Launches AI Gigafactories to Break American Monopoly on Large-Scale Model Training
BusinessJan 24, 2026

EU Launches AI Gigafactories to Break American Monopoly on Large-Scale Model Training

A €7 billion escalation from Europe's previous AI investments marks a shift from research to production-scale infrastructure

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Memory Prices Double as AI Eats the World's RAM Supply
BusinessJan 23, 2026

Memory Prices Double as AI Eats the World's RAM Supply

Data centers will consume 70% of global memory production this year, leaving everyone else scrambling for scraps at premium prices.

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