Society and Policy

YouTube on Tuesday began offering a free deepfake detection tool for government officials, journalists and political candidates, giving them a way to identify…

Anthropic has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense and other federal agencies after the Pentagon moved to label the AI company a “Supply-Chain…

Meta is facing a new lawsuit in the United States over its Ray-Ban Meta AI smart glasses, with plaintiffs alleging the company misled consumers about privacy…

Hundreds of tech workers have signed an open letter urging the Department of Defense to withdraw its designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” arguing…

ByteDance said it will strengthen safeguards on its new AI video generator, Seedance 2.0, after facing backlash from major Hollywood studios that accused the…

India has ordered social media platforms to tighten enforcement against deepfakes and AI-generated impersonations, while dramatically shortening the time…

New York lawmakers are moving to halt the construction of large new data centers, proposing a three-year moratorium as concerns mount over electricity demand,…

Tinder is testing a new AI-powered feature called Chemistry as it looks to address slowing growth and user burnout from endless swiping. The feature, which is…

Indonesia has allowed Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok to resume operating in the country on a conditional basis, weeks after authorities blocked the service over…

India is offering foreign cloud providers a major new incentive to run AI and other computing workloads from inside the country, proposing zero taxes through…

Meta said Wednesday that it will begin charging developers to run third-party AI chatbots on WhatsApp in markets where regulators are requiring the company to…

A deal where the U.S. government could eventually own up to 50% of TikTok U.S. would’ve sounded impossible not that long ago. But that’s exactly what Perplexity…