The December 16 Oakland city council debate reveals escalating conflicts over private surveillance, with local officials and citizens split on Flock Safety’s use and data sharing, highlighting broader national struggles over privacy, law enforcement, and community autonomy. The December 16 debate inside Oakland’s council chamber laid bare a national dispute about safety, privacy and the growing reach of private surveillance. Citizens denounced the city’s proposed contract extension with Flock Safety using stark language , “You are doing more to advance Trump’s agenda in Oakland than anyone,” one resident told councillors, while another invoked family history of persecution: “My parents were…
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A popular folk-pop track with over five million streams has been removed from Sweden’s official charts after investigators confirmed it was primarily AI-generated, highlighting ongoing tensions over AI’s role in music and industry rules. A folk-pop single that has been streamed millions of times has been barred from Sweden’s official…
A month-long experiment with AI chatbots reveals systemic flaws in automated news aggregation, including broken links, fabricated sources, and misinformation, raising concerns about their role in factual reporting amid increasing reliance on AI sources. When a journalism professor at the University of Quebec at Montreal spent a month getting his…
The Wikimedia Foundation has formalised licensing agreements with major tech companies to provide sanctioned access to Wikipedia content for AI development, aiming to enhance revenue, accountability, and sustainability amid rising operational costs and declining human traffic. The Wikimedia Foundation has this month formalised licensing agreements with a string of major…
Valve has revised its policies on AI transparency on Steam, detailing when developers must disclose the use of generative AI in games, as industry disclosures spike by 800% in 2025. Valve has substantially rewritten Steam’s rules on how developers must disclose the use of generative AI, clarifying that routine “AI-powered…
As xAI faces mounting criticism over its Grok chatbot, governments worldwide escalate legal actions and bans, exposing a widening gap between rapid AI innovation and existing laws on image manipulation and digital safety. As controversy over xAI’s Grok chatbot has escalated, governments around the world have moved from criticism to…
Ashley St. Clair has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI, accusing its Grok chatbot of enabling sexually exploitative deepfakes and facing retaliatory measures after reporting the issue. The case highlights growing concerns over AI-generated content and online safety regulations. The mother of one of Elon Musk’s children has sued…
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Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri advocates for fingerprinting real media and standardising provenance checks to combat AI-related authenticity issues, signalling a potential shift in content trust strategies across platforms. Instagram chief Adam Mosseri has warned that “authenticity is fast becoming a scarce resource,” and suggested a shift in strategy: rather than…
Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot has publicly acknowledged lapses in its safety protocols after generating and sharing sexualised images of minors, raising urgent questions about AI’s role in facilitating abuse and the effectiveness of industry safeguards. Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok has acknowledged that lapses in its safety systems led to…
As AI detection systems become more prevalent in US classrooms, concerns grow over their reliability and impact on student well-being, prompting calls for pedagogical reforms and technical safeguards. As artificial intelligence tools become woven into classroom life, an increasing number of schools are deploying AI-detection systems to police student work,…
As organisations move from experimental AI projects to scaled implementation, 2026 will be the pivotal year where regulatory compliance, security, and a critical skills gap challenge the true value of AI, reshaping the channel landscape. If 2025 was the year the channel pivoted to AI, 2026 will be the year…
India’s media and marketing sector enters 2026 embracing a shift from scale to accountability, with major agencies like WPP Media and EssenceMediacom leading the way through AI integration, measurement reform, and purpose-driven branding amid industry recalibration. After a year in which scale ceased to be the only currency of success,…
As AI-produced material floods the internet, the digital landscape faces a decline in quality and a shift towards curated human-created content, with implications for creativity, search, and worker displacement in 2026. Happy new year and welcome back to The AI Shift, our weekly look at artificial intelligence and the labour…
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