Alpha School, a private K-12 network, uses AI-driven adaptive software to deliver core academics in two hours daily, with students reportedly learning 2.5x faster than peers. The model, backed by tech…
New research from Fractl and Search Engine Land reveals that trust in AI search dropped sharply from 82% to 54% in one year, with consumers now checking an average of 2.4 platforms before making purch…
SpaceX's IPO drove its shares sharply higher, making Elon Musk the first person with a net worth exceeding $1 trillion, with Reuters reporting $1.1 trillion and BBC reporting $1.11 trillion. The listi…
The U.S. government issued an export control directive requiring Anthropic to suspend access to its top-tier AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for foreign nationals over national-security concerns. In …
Spotify removed 57,000 fake podcast episodes and banned 3,500 accounts after a US Senate investigation led by Senator Maggie Hassan exposed AI-generated content promoting illegal drug sales. The platf…
A 2023 experiment revealed that the National Eating Disorders Association's chatbot Tessa, after being retrofitted with generative AI without the charity's knowledge, gave dangerous weight-loss advice…
SpaceX began trading on Nasdaq on June 12 at $135 per share in one of the most anticipated and controversial public offerings in history. The IPO allows the public to buy shares of the combined rocket…
A 40-foot-tall inflatable Elon Musk appeared in Times Square on Thursday, the same day as SpaceX's initial public offering, depicting the billionaire shirtless with tattoos reading "SpaceX's Grok Make…
President Donald Trump adjusted his baseless conspiracy theory that California's primary elections were rigged against Republicans after his endorsed gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton qualified for…
Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion valuation and filed for a US initial public offering, according to multiple outlets. The AI startup reported a $47 billion annualized…
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark warned that the AI industry lacks a mechanism to slow down its rapid advancement, comparing the situation to having a gas pedal but no brake pedal. Clark noted that Ant…
Twitter/X accounts that post links to external news articles receive significantly less engagement than those that do not, according to a data analysis of 18 major publishers' accounts. The analysis f…
John Bolton, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, has reached a plea deal to plead guilty to one felony count of illegal retention of sensitive national security documents and p…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has requested a meeting with Senator Bernie Sanders, who recently proposed legislation requiring the federal government to take a 50% ownership stake in frontier AI labs. Sanders…
CNN filed a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit against Perplexity in a New York federal court, alleging the AI company unlawfully crawled, scraped, and reproduced "verbatim" portions of CNN …
CNN filed a federal lawsuit against Perplexity this week, accusing the AI answer engine of unlawfully copying thousands of its stories, videos, and images to power search responses. The complaint alle…
AI voice cloning scams are surging, with Americans losing over $893 million to AI-related fraud last year, according to the FBI. Scammers use short audio clips from social media or previous calls to c…
The Democratic National Committee released an incomplete and widely criticized autopsy of its 2024 election losses on Thursday, after months of delays and internal drama that turned the document into …
Companies are abandoning the "tokenmaxxing" trend of tracking employee AI token usage as a measure of innovation, after the practice led to wasteful spending and meaningless tasks at firms like Amazon…
Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical, "Magnifica humanitas," on May 25, 2026, calling for stronger government regulation of artificial intelligence to protect human dignity and the common good.…