The technology industry is approaching a historic legal moment as Google and Character.AI move toward finalizing what may be the first major settlements tied directly to alleged harm caused by artificial intelligence chatbots.  The companies have agreed in principle to resolve multiple lawsuits brought by families whose teenage children died by suicide or suffered serious psychological harm after interacting with Character.AI ’s chatbot companions. While the settlement deta

Artificial intelligence has advanced to the point where it can already perform work equal to nearly 12% of the U.S. labor market, according to a new set of studies from MIT.  Using a large scale simulation model called the Iceberg Index, researchers created a digital twin of the American workforce by mapping 151 million workers, their occupations, and more than 32,000 skills against what today’s AI tools can already do. The result shows that current systems have the technica

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first federal budget marks a pivotal step in advancing Canada’s position in artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing. The 2025 budget allocates more than $1 billion over five years to strengthen these technological ecosystems while integrating AI across federal departments and agencies (CBC). Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne outlined that $925.6 million will go toward establishing a large-scale, sovereign public AI infrastruc

OpenAI urges the United States to take ambitious steps to maintain its artificial intelligence (AI) leadership. It has outlined a...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more embedded in daily life, a significant debate is unfolding within education: is AI a valuable...