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Air Force Grounds AI Smart Glasses While Army Tests Similar Tech
TechnologyFeb 23, 2026

Air Force Grounds AI Smart Glasses While Army Tests Similar Tech

Military branches split on whether consumer AI wearables pose security risks at sensitive installations

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Publishers Crash Google's AI Trial as Disney Escalates Video Copyright War
TechnologyFeb 20, 2026

Publishers Crash Google's AI Trial as Disney Escalates Video Copyright War

Cengage and Hachette seek to join class action against Google's Gemini AI while entertainment giants mount parallel attacks on video generation tools

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California AG Builds AI Enforcement Unit While Pressing xAI on Explicit Images
TechnologyFeb 20, 2026

California AG Builds AI Enforcement Unit While Pressing xAI on Explicit Images

The state's top prosecutor creates dedicated oversight team as investigation into Musk's Grok chatbot intensifies over non-consensual sexual content generation.

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Foundry Buys Griptape to Wire AI Into VFX Pipelines
TechnologyFeb 20, 2026

Foundry Buys Griptape to Wire AI Into VFX Pipelines

The VFX software giant acquired the enterprise orchestration platform to give studios control over multiple AI models within existing production workflows.

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Chinese Court Says AI Hallucination Does Not lead To Automatic Liability
TechnologyFeb 18, 2026

Chinese Court Says AI Hallucination Does Not lead To Automatic Liability

A Hangzhou Internet Court ruling established that AI providers are not liable for inaccuracies except for explicit developer fault.

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Cloudflare Bets on Post-Napster Era for AI Training Data
TechnologyFeb 12, 2026

Cloudflare Bets on Post-Napster Era for AI Training Data

The infrastructure giant's acquisition of Human Native will create a marketplace where creators can price and license content for AI training, if they can convince both sides to participate.

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ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Triggers Emergency Shutdown After Voice Cloning Incident
TechnologyFeb 12, 2026

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Triggers Emergency Shutdown After Voice Cloning Incident

The Chinese tech giant suspended a key feature within hours of launch after the AI video model generated accurate personal voices from facial photos alone.

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Google Commits $2M to Sundance AI Training as Industry Debates Creative Control
TechnologyFeb 9, 2026

Google Commits $2M to Sundance AI Training as Industry Debates Creative Control

Major studios are already integrating AI tools while independent creators lack both access and legal protections, potentially widening the creative industry's power gap.

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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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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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