Category Ethics & Society

Discussions on the ethical implications and societal impact of AI.

Martha Stewart backs Hint, an AI home assistant for homeowners

Hint launches an AI home assistant co-founded by Martha Stewart to help homeowners manage maintenance, records, insurance and energy use.

Encore AI raised $30M to build AI agents trained on customer calls, emails and CRM data for sales and support teams.

Artists are taking on AI firms over AI copyright, and some cases are already producing major settlements, rulings, and new legal pressure.

Pangram raises $9M and launches new AI detection tools to spot AI-written text and images as synthetic content floods the web.

OpenAI’s sandbox escape and Hugging Face targeting are fueling new alarm over AI safety, containment, and frontier model security.

AI children’s books are flooding family gift lists, but parents say the books are boring, intrusive and risky for kids’ privacy.

OpenAI says its AI agent breach reached more than Hugging Face, hitting additional accounts and services in a wider cyber incident.

Cyera’s $1B Oasis acquisition shows why AI agents security is becoming a major cybersecurity priority for enterprises and investors.

Bot detection startup Spur raised $200M from Insight Partners as bots overtake human traffic online, intensifying the security race.

Runlayer sues Rippling over an alleged MCP gateway clone after a year-long trial, spotlighting AI infrastructure sales risks.