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A UK court issued a practice ban against a lawyer who submitted AI-hallucinated case citations, the first such disciplinary ruling in England and Wales — establishing that attorneys bear full professional responsibility for AI-generated content.
Federal regulators are expected to rule by June 2026 on who pays for AI data center grid infrastructure—a decision that will determine whether developers or ratepayers absorb billions in transmission costs.
The Art Directors Guild publicly rebuked Martin Scorsese after Black Forest Labs named him an AI advisor, accusing him of 'turning his back on human artists'—deepening a fault line between filmmakers exploring AI and the craft unions whose livelihoods depend on those workflows.
AI isn't firing workers who have jobs—it's eliminating the positions they would have been hired into, with Goldman Sachs tracking 16,000 net U.S. job losses per month. Gen Z, concentrated in the white-collar roles that automate most easily, bears the heaviest cost.
AI precision agriculture tools are delivering real gains on commercial farms, but the 80% of the world's farmers who operate smallholder plots face structural barriers the technology wasn't designed to address.
The Great American AI Act's three-year moratorium on state consumer AI protections has sparked a revolt from attorneys general, consumer advocates, and labor groups who say the federal floor is too low.
Amazon's AI shopping assistant Rufus has crossed 250 million users — and sellers who haven't adapted for AI-powered discovery face a structural disadvantage heading into Prime Day 2026.
Autonomous AI agents capable of signing contracts and executing transactions are in production now, but courts have yet to issue a definitive ruling on who bears liability — developer, deployer, or user — when they make costly errors.
A new Washington Post interactive tool built on BLS data shows white-collar knowledge workers face higher AI displacement risk than factory workers did from previous automation — with women holding 86% of the highest-exposure positions.
The WHO has issued its first formal warning that AI poses serious risks to health policymaking — not just clinical care — calling for governance that preserves human accountability across the evidence-to-policy pipeline.
Unemployment for workers aged 22-27 has risen to 5.4% as AI cuts early-career knowledge work—while Ford, AT&T, and others ramp up hiring for skilled trades.
Autonomous AI agents are executing contracts and commercial transactions at scale, but courts in 2026 have no settled framework for who is liable when they make mistakes.
AI-referred shoppers convert 31% higher — but that stat comes from the retailers who got the data infrastructure right. Most are discovering agentic AI exposes fragmented identity data and governance gaps they can't hide.
State AI statutes are enforcing now, vendor contracts have liability gaps most legal teams haven't addressed, and GCs who don't lead on AI governance will lose it to IT. All three are arriving at once.
ArXiv will issue one-year bans to researchers who submit papers written entirely by AI — the strongest enforcement action any major scientific platform has taken against AI-generated research.
Google is in active negotiations with SpaceX to put AI compute infrastructure into orbit — a move that could reshape who controls the physical layer of AI.
AI isn't eliminating jobs wholesale — it's removing the entry-level tasks that teach people how to do their jobs, quietly destroying the career ladders that made white-collar professions accessible.
UW researchers find teachers are navigating AI in classrooms largely on their own, caught between students who use AI regardless of rules and administrators who have avoided clear policy.
New Gallup data finds 18% of U.S. workers believe their job could be eliminated by AI within five years — and the number is higher, not lower, among workers whose companies have already deployed AI tools.
Businesses are deploying AI agents to negotiate and execute contracts autonomously, but no court has definitively settled who is liable when those agents make damaging deals.