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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia unsealed a ruling that Google must allow its ad technology to work with rival products and share more data with customers to weaken the company’s dominance in online marketing, effectively ensuring that the tech titan’s business will continue largely unscathed. Judge Leonie M. Brinkema found that Google broke the law to protect its control over technology that places ads on pages across the web.

President Trump's longtime pollster is offering Republican candidates a detailed playbook for neutralizing Democratic attacks over AI data centers—down to what languag

A mother’s viral post criticizing Meta’s AI for compiling details about her young daughters has sparked a debate on what privacy looks like in a future where technology can instantly build dossiers on people by crawling the internet. Kalie Robins, a Utah mom who posts videos about her family’s travels, uploaded a clip of herself singing in the car, her daughter in the background, when she saw a prompt underneath the post asking: “Who’s the child passenger?” Robins thought Meta wanted to verify her daughter’s identity, and she clicked to deny the request.

The DeepMind Institute seeks to provide a forum for Google, DeepMind, and outside researchers to tackle the biggest questions around artificial general intelligence's impacts on society, according to an announcement shared with Axios. The institute—led by Shane Legg as Managing Editor alongside Google SVP James Manyika and DeepMind Chair Demis Hassabis—aims to make complex academic research accessible to the public and highlight the diversity of perspectives.

In July 2026, All Tech Is Human and the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab convened paired workshops in New York City to examine how agentic and generative AI are reshaping work from two different vantage points: those of mid-level professionals and senior leaders. The groups were asked mirrored questions to enable comparison. Both described the same broad shifts: AI is not simply automating tasks, but reconfiguring the lived experience of work itself, with technical deployments currently outpacing organizational and human adaptation.

Members of Congress and governors are under increasing pressure to regulate AI, but more than two dozen of them who spo

When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of business and technical uncertainties. So she started with what she calls a “remarkable fact” that is not in question: A handful of so-called hyperscalers are investing huge amounts of money to build AI data centers.

The Trump administration has a new villain in the battle over how fast AI development should move: effective altru

The Gates Foundation has pledged to spend at least $1 billion over the next two years to expand global access to artificial intelligence and use it to tackle social inequalities. The foundation’s annual Goalkeepers report advocated an urgent effort to ensure that A.I. “helps narrow gaps between the richest and poorest rather than widening them.” The funding will be used to support A.I.

Rep Michael McCaul (R-TX)—founder and co-chair of the Congressional Childhood Cancer Caucus—introduced the