Shares of IBM were down more than 23% when the market opened on Tuesday. New York's decision to pause the construction of large artificial intelligence data centers is drawing criticism from some lawmakers and energy officials. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez praised the late Sen. Lindsey Graham for backing legislation that would allow victims of nonconsensual AI-generated deepfake pornography to file civil lawsuits. Google is rolling out a new privacy control for Search services.
Katie covers the impact of health technology on patients, clinicians and businesses. Confidential tips can be sent on Signal at palmer01.01. Katie's stories explore the price tag of clinical AI, digital health at the FDA, and the boom in direct-to-consumer telehealth.
Fewer than 10% of schools and universities have formal guidance on generative AI. Kirstin Stevens is an education systems designer working at the intersection of AI and child education and development. She believes the real issue is the relationship children are forming with AI. She has seen firsthand how quickly AI systems are deployed without sufficient governance.
Daniel Solove argues that giving people control of their personal data is not an effective way to regulate privacy in this era. Instead, we need to hold companies accountable for their actions, similar to what we do with food and drug companies. Measures such as rigorous data minimization, fiduciary duties, liability for negligent or reckless technological design and multi-stakeholder review of technologies will be far more effective.
Mr. Guterres spoke at the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai. He warned that without international cooperation the technology could widen global inequality instead of advancing sustainable development. UN has stepped up its work on AI governance over the past year.
Xi Jinping has called for international co-operation in AI development. Almost 30 countries have signed up to the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization. Moonshot has released a large language model with capabilities approaching those of frontier US labs such as Anthropic. The company is planning an initial public offering in 2027.
According to the research team headed by the International Observatory on the Social Impacts of AI and Digital Technology (Obvia), only 44% of people who use AI daily report a real gain in productivity. The benefits of AI are not distributed randomly, they follow the existing fault lines of the labor market. The research team interviewed 4,595 union members in Quebec in 2025.
The European Commission ordered Google to give its AI rivals greater access to Android. Google has until July 2027 to make those changes. The order stems from Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which requires dominant platforms to give competitors access to certain systems and data comparable to what is available to their own services.
Gumloop is building tools to give clients visibility and control over their AI spending. Ottawa-based Fellow spends tens of thousands of dollars a month on AI tools for its workforce of about 70 people. Not Diamond sells tools that cut clients' AI bills by 30 per cent or more.
Shares of IBM were down more than 23% when the market opened on Tuesday. New York's decision to pause the construction of large artificial intelligence data centers is drawing criticism from some lawmakers and energy officials. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez praised the late Sen. Lindsey Graham for backing legislation that would allow victims of nonconsensual AI-generated deepfake pornography to file civil lawsuits. Google is rolling out a new privacy control for Search services.
Katie covers the impact of health technology on patients, clinicians and businesses. Confidential tips can be sent on Signal at palmer01.01. Katie's stories explore the price tag of clinical AI, digital health at the FDA, and the boom in direct-to-consumer telehealth.
Fewer than 10% of schools and universities have formal guidance on generative AI. Kirstin Stevens is an education systems designer working at the intersection of AI and child education and development. She believes the real issue is the relationship children are forming with AI. She has seen firsthand how quickly AI systems are deployed without sufficient governance.
Daniel Solove argues that giving people control of their personal data is not an effective way to regulate privacy in this era. Instead, we need to hold companies accountable for their actions, similar to what we do with food and drug companies. Measures such as rigorous data minimization, fiduciary duties, liability for negligent or reckless technological design and multi-stakeholder review of technologies will be far more effective.
Mr. Guterres spoke at the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai. He warned that without international cooperation the technology could widen global inequality instead of advancing sustainable development. UN has stepped up its work on AI governance over the past year.
Xi Jinping has called for international co-operation in AI development. Almost 30 countries have signed up to the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization. Moonshot has released a large language model with capabilities approaching those of frontier US labs such as Anthropic. The company is planning an initial public offering in 2027.
According to the research team headed by the International Observatory on the Social Impacts of AI and Digital Technology (Obvia), only 44% of people who use AI daily report a real gain in productivity. The benefits of AI are not distributed randomly, they follow the existing fault lines of the labor market. The research team interviewed 4,595 union members in Quebec in 2025.
The European Commission ordered Google to give its AI rivals greater access to Android. Google has until July 2027 to make those changes. The order stems from Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which requires dominant platforms to give competitors access to certain systems and data comparable to what is available to their own services.
Gumloop is building tools to give clients visibility and control over their AI spending. Ottawa-based Fellow spends tens of thousands of dollars a month on AI tools for its workforce of about 70 people. Not Diamond sells tools that cut clients' AI bills by 30 per cent or more.