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New Stanford-Harvard research reveals widely used AI models produce harmful medical recommendations at concerning rates, with most errors stemming from omissions rather than bad advice.
Tennessee Senator Becky Massey introduced SB 1493 making certain AI training a Class A felony, while Trump targets state AI laws through federal preemption.
Google's semantic search evolution forces publishers toward defensible journalism with unique data as AI summaries reduce clicks to shallow news coverage.
Meta researchers achieve 100× data efficiency using reinforcement learning for content moderation, outperforming supervised training while addressing label scarcity.
Google released December 2025 AI implementation guide documenting sustainability reporting experimentation with NotebookLM, Gemini tools, and prompt templates.
Google's 18-day algorithm rollout disrupted rankings while Alphabet spent $4.75B on AI infrastructure and Big Tech consolidated control over digital advertising markets.
Elon Musk's xAI files federal lawsuit challenging California's AB 2013, arguing the transparency law violates constitutional protections and hands competitors a roadmap to replicate proprietary AI models.
Large language models reshaped news consumption patterns starting in August 2024, but publishers who blocked AI bots experienced worse outcomes than those who didn't, according to research published December 31, 2025, by Rutgers Business School and The Wharton School.
