A coalition of 78 civil rights, labor, consumer protection, technology accountability and community organizations on Monday urged the US Senate to remove existing artificial intelligence (AI) sandbox provisions from the proposed Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY Act), warning that the measure could allow financial institutions to test AI systems without legal protections for consumers, [...]

Apple filed a motion on Monday asking a US judge for a preliminary injunction barring two former employees, both now working for OpenAI, and OpenAI,  the company that created and maintains ChatGPT, from accessing, acquiring, using or disclosing alleged confidential information as ‌it moves ahead with its trade secrets case. Last month Apple sued OpenAI [...]

India’s arrest safeguards are again under scrutiny after police arrested more than 100 students two days after the government promised in writing to withdraw cases against non-violent demonstrators, organisers said. The July 25 assurance had ended seven weeks of protests at Jantar Mantar. Such episodes undermine the legitimacy of law enforcement and erode public trust [...]

Mobs in South Africa have looted foreign-owned shops, forced migrants out of townships and displaced tens of thousands of African nationals, conduct that breaches the equality and dignity guarantees of the country’s own constitution and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and that repudiates the Pan-African solidarity that sustained the anti-apartheid struggle. At [...]

A group of 25 mainly democratic states on Monday sued the Trump administration over its latest attempt to implement sweeping global tariffs. The lawsuit, filed in the International Trade Court (CIT), argues that the tariffs are arbitrary, capricious, and contrary to the law under which they were ostensibly imposed. President Trump invoked the tariffs in [...]

INTERPOL announced on Monday that it has released a new report entitled “African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026,” which reveals that artificial intelligence (AI) now drives over 55 percent of cybercrime across Africa, with financial losses doubling to $484 million since 2024. In commenting on the significance of the report, the director for cybercrime at INTERPOL, [...]

Machine-generated text reconstructed from brain activity is now accurate enough to approximate what a person heard, imagined or attempted to say, a capability that, offered as criminal evidence, would let prosecutors put words in a defendant’s mouth while bypassing nearly every safeguard the Federal Rules of Evidence builds around human testimony. Federal rulemakers are looking [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday reported that in the five years since the Taliban’s resurgence, the group has fostered a hostile environment and spurred one of the world’s worst human rights crises. HRW called on governments around the world to take decisive action as opposed to passively providing condolences, stating that the international response [...]

A $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund established to pay people who say the government unjustly prosecuted them was rescinded Sunday night. But the settlement between President Donald Trump and his own Justice Department that created the fund remains unchanged. The order, dated August 2 and signed by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal attorney, [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday condemned a deadly airstrike by the Russia’s-Africa Corps in central Mali, saying the strike appeared to be an arbitrary attack that may have violated international humanitarian law. The Russian government-controlled Africa Corps launched the airstrike that killed eight civilians, including three children, on June 15. The strike hit the [...]