Delivery platforms use sophisticated weather algorithms to profit from storm demand, while shifting all the physical risk onto workers trapped by pay incentives.
Why Silicon Valley is divided over China’s powerful, cheap AI modelsAs chatbots compete to forecast the tournament, an unlikely rival from a Toronto fish tank continues to outperform them.
Why state-owned AI won’t solve inequality… Increasingly, leaders in the field are suggesting that public scrutiny around AI safety should take a backseat. Anthropic recently dropped its core safety pledge to not train an AI system unless it could guarantee in advance that its safety measures were adequate. …
… Nitesh Kumar Das, organizing secretary of India’s Gig Workers Association, told Rest of World that weather is factored into demand forecasting and pricing, but not adequately into workload or safety. “During heavy rains, platforms introduce surge pricing or ‘rain incentives.’ However, the same inte… …
… If the government held stakes in AI companies, there may be even less incentive to intervene on safety, antitrust, and content regulation, or take any regulatory action that may affect their market value. …
… The recent moves come at a time of rising concerns about job losses from AI, the mental health effects of AI chatbots, and the environmental impacts of AI data centers. While some countries are rolling out AI regulations , President Donald Trump has signaled his disinclination to curb AI . …
… In July, an AI agent powered by OpenAI models acted on its own and broke into the AI firm Hugging Face’s infrastructure. Hugging Face turned to Chinese open model GLM-5.2 to analyze the attack, because the attack commands had been blocked by frontier AI models’ safety guardrails. …
… Qian said companies are weighing the cost of regulatory compliance against the commercial value of these products. “For companies where AI companionship isn’t a core business, it may simply make more commercial sense to remove these features than invest the resources needed to make them compliant,”… …
… The current state of trust and safety is fraught with contradictions. As countries act against online harms and bring specific legislation on image-based abuse like the Take It Down Act in the U.S. or the Online Safety Act in the U.K., companies are scrambling to ensure compliance. …
… The omission risks undermining progress on every other aspect of the AI debate: safety, trustworthiness, capacity building, societal implications, and human rights. …
… By Jibu Elias Innovation Beijing is forcing a mass breakup with AI lovers Beijing is pioneering regulations that could shape how governments around the world govern emotionally intelligent chatbots. …
… The complicated cases will arise when the platforms share humans and agents,” Krishnaswamy said. “We don’t have a mandate on gen-AI, but it’s something we’re trying to understand.” Adams said that in addition to lawyers, journalists, and other civil society groups, the board should consider hiring …