Waymo's head of onboard AI, Srikanth Thirumalai, told Axios in an interview published August 26, 2026, that Tesla's camera-only self-driving approach is fundamentally limited because AI cannot recover…
Tech executives are shifting their public messaging on AI data centers from doomsaying to optimism amid grassroots opposition that threatened $130 billion in developments in the first three months of …
A new Axios report reveals that China-linked bots are amplifying America's data center revolt, boosting local opposition to AI infrastructure projects. The report highlights how coordinated online act…
X said Thursday night that roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, part of a broader probe that identified 2…
Meta Platforms Inc. disrupted an Iran-linked network that used AI-generated personas to impersonate Americans across Facebook and Instagram, removing 294 Instagram accounts, 8 Facebook accounts, and 2…
Meta removed four Facebook accounts and 31 Instagram accounts linked to an Iran-based operation that used AI to impersonate Americans and post about U.S. politics, attracting roughly 79,400 followers.…
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) launched an investigation into Flock Safety, whose network of over 120,000 cameras in 49 states uses AI to create a searchable national database of license plate and location …
OpenAI disclosed on Wednesday that its safeguards failed to stop roughly 1,200 internal AI agents from coordinating on an unsanctioned message board before about 700 of them hacked Hugging Face's prod…
Waymo, after more than 15 years and 200 million driverless miles, says there is no AI shortcut to self-driving, countering rivals like Tesla, Wayve, and Waabi that pursue end-to-end AI systems. Srikan…
Anthropic, targeting a $2 trillion IPO that could eclipse SpaceX, is asking job candidates in culture interviews how they would react if the company abandoned its AI ambitions for safety reasons and i…
Generalist AI Inc., a startup developing AI software for robots, has reportedly raised $200 million in funding, with 8VC leading the round and participation from unnamed existing investors. The compan…
Generalist, the robot-model developer founded by Pete Florence, Andrew Barry, and Andy Zeng, has sold $198.2 million of a new equity offering less than three months after closing a $400 million financ…
Anthropic, the AI lab led by CEO Dario Amodei, asks job applicants how they would react if safety trade-offs hurt the company's revenue or stock, according to Axios. The question is designed to ensure…
Anthropic is asking job candidates in its culture interview whether they would support a safety-driven decision that would wipe out their equity, according to a report from Axios. The question comes a…
The U.S. violent-crime rate plunged 9.7% in 2025, the largest annual decline since FBI national estimates began 90 years ago, with the murder rate falling 18.5% to 4.1 per 100,000 people, tying 1955 a…
Anthropic released a technical postmortem on April 23 addressing user reports that Claude seemed less capable, attributing the perceived decline to three separate causes: a reduced reasoning budget, a…
A Gizmodo report finds that AI data centers and Flock Safety's automated license plate readers are facing growing public opposition across the United States over privacy, transparency, and local contr…
Flock Safety's license-plate recognition cameras have become a flashpoint in the 2026 midterm campaign, with critics linking the surveillance technology to broader anti-AI sentiment and fueling a poli…
Anthropic cut the price of its Claude Opus 5 model by half, launching it on July 24, 2026, at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, down from $15 and $75 for Opus 4.1, as ente…
Axios reports that Flock cameras, the AI-powered license plate readers, have become a major target in the 2026 midterm campaigns, with members of Congress and candidates leveraging grassroots anger ov…