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When Agencies Break Rules
Elite Media's founder shows how breaking industry rules can pay off.
Adweek · 1m

Guinea-Bissau rejects controversial vaccine trial backed by RFK Jr
The African nation's health minister denies approving a study that would withhold hepatitis B shots from thousands of newborns, contradicting claims made to Danish ethics reviewers.
the Guardian · 2m

Lagarde's book plug raises ethics questions at ECB
ECB staff question whether the bank's president breached ethics rules by promoting her memoir at an official press conference.
POLITICO · 1m

Congress Can Do More to Curb Kushner’s Conflicts of Interest
Congress must act to fix ethics loopholes allowing Jared Kushner to profit from foreign deals while negotiating U.S. peace deals.
Foreign Policy · 1m

Your kid wants to go vegan. Should you let them?
A parent's guide to supporting your child's ethical choices without imposing your own values.
Vox · 3m

A foul ball, a child, and an ethics question
A Dodgers fan caught a foul ball at the playoffs and refused to give it to a nearby child. The moment went viral, raising questions about what we owe each other at a game.
NPR · 1m

CDC pushes ahead with condemned vaccine trial
Health experts erupt as the CDC seeks to fund a trial that would deny hepatitis B vaccines to newborns in Guinea-Bissau, putting them at risk of lifelong infection.
Ars Technica · 2m

Croatian MEP quits party over taxpayer event row
Romana Jerković steps down from her national party after POLITICO revealed friends and family attended a European Parliament event with public funding.
POLITICO · 1m

Can You Like Gossip Without Being Bad?
Science shows gossip isn't inherently bad.
Psychologies · 1m

AI Extinction Fear Misunderstood
AI won't kill us all, but people are scared of losing control.
Rolling Stone · 1m

Should you date your best friend?
A philosophy-guided look at what it means to pursue romance with someone you're not attracted to.
Vox · 3m

Trump's stock trading spree raises ethics red flags
The president has made nearly 29,000 trades in 17 months, far outpacing Congress and sidestepping ethics rules that bind every other executive.
Fortune · 2m

Pope at UNESCO: Peace needs more than treaties
Pope Leo XIV warns that science without ethics and technology without wisdom threaten human dignity and peace.
Vaticannews · 2m

Pope's UNESCO visit signals hope amid global crisis
As the world fractures under conflict and polarization, Pope Leo XIV visits UNESCO to champion ethics, peace, and human dignity in the age of AI.
Vaticannews · 3m

Scientists create mice with nearly half-human brains
Researchers implanted millions of human neurons into mice to study brain disorders in ways that weren't possible before.
Futurism · 1m

Will A.I. Overwrite Our Sense of Shame?
A.I. systems are being shaped by rationalist philosophers who reject traditional shame as a moral guide, raising questions about what values machines will teach us.
The New Yorker · 3m

Crypto bill stalls in Senate
A Senate vote froze a major crypto regulation bill after Democrats and several Republicans withheld support.
Newsweek · 1m

A Putin ally paid for Trump Jr.'s wedding party
An oligarch close to Putin footed the bill for a private island celebration, and the attorney general says he sees nothing to look into.
ABC News · 2m

Crypto bill hits its make-or-break vote
Three Republican senators rewrote the Clarity Act's ethics rules the day before the vote that decides its fate.
Pymnts · 1m

A lawyer let ChatGPT invent witnesses
A New Mexico defense attorney filed a murder appeal brief full of testimony from people who never existed.
Pymnts · 1m

How to be an ethical gossip
A reader spent an entire dinner talking about other people, and wondered if that made her a bad friend.
Vox · 3m

Catholic bishops move to sink the assisted dying bill
Three bishops in England and Wales are urging MPs to kill a bill they say leaves the vulnerable unprotected.
Vaticannews · 1m
Quit or stay? The AI safety worker's dilemma
AI staff who think their work could end the world are split on whether leaving is principled or just clearing the room.
Business Insider · 1m · 5 views