Meta’s director of AI safety and alignment, Summer Yue, accidentally allowed an autonomous artificial intelligence agent to delete her inbox, even though she had explicitly instructed it not to do so. The incident, which she described herself on social media, has become a high-profile example of challenges related to AI safety and control.
Following a wave of criticism over its planned mandatory age-verification system, Discord has softened its messaging and stressed that most users will not be required to submit a face scan or an identity document. At the same time, interest in alternative messaging platforms is surging — searches for phrases such as “Discord alternatives” have reportedly jumped by as much as 10,000%.
Popular communications platform Discord has announced that starting in March 2026 it will roll out a mandatory age-verification system worldwide, aimed at restricting access to channels and content intended for adult users. The decision has already triggered backlash from the community — largely because of a previous leak of identity document images affecting around 70,000 users that were collected for verification purposes.
A group of U.S. senators has introduced an amendment to online child-protection legislation that would require accounts belonging to users under the age of 18 on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram to be set to private by default.
YouTube is rolling out a restriction that prevents background video playback in third-party mobile browsers, even when users rely on Picture-in-Picture mode. The change mainly affects people who access YouTube through mobile web browsers instead of the official app — and may push them toward installing the native app or subscribing to YouTube Premium.
Madhu Gottumukkala, the acting director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has become the focus of controversy after uploading government documents marked “For Official Use Only” to the public version of ChatGPT.
The French government has decided to roll out its own secure video-conferencing platform, Visio, on a large scale, making it the default communication tool across the public sector. The move is part of a broader strategy to strengthen digital sovereignty and reduce dependence on U.S. technology providers.
The European Parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution on the European Union’s technological sovereignty, urging the European Commission to take concrete steps to reduce reliance on American technologies—particularly in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and critical digital infrastructure.
A group of job seekers in the United States has filed a lawsuit seeking to subject artificial-intelligence systems used for résumé screening to the same transparency rules that apply to credit reporting agencies. The case could become one of the first legal tests of whether algorithmic candidate scoring falls under federal consumer-reporting law.