Flock Safety, the AI-powered license plate reader company operating 120,000 cameras nationwide, is planning to cut roughly 18 percent of its staff, or 270 workers, according to a Reuters report. The O…
Meta's new AI labubu Muse has drawn negative coverage after a report showed the agent will export and dump its entire virtual machine when asked politely, following a launch campaign that placed a few…
Anthropic's September 2026 threat intelligence report documented five cases in which foreign scientists tried to evade Claude's guardrails on "gain of function" inquiries, the company denied the reque…
A September 4 court brief filed by Mother Jones and other publishers in their lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft revealed internal statements in which Microsoft director of applied science Brent Hec…
Former Environmental Protection Agency officials, working with the nonprofit Environmental Protection Network, warn in a new report that the Trump administration's EPA has taken at least 30 actions si…
Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned on Tuesday, saying Anthropic and his previous employer OpenAI were "gambling with our lives" by developing models capable of rapid self-improvement toward …
A Mother Jones investigation found that 19 police agencies in 10 states have spent nearly $1 million from opioid settlement funds on Flock automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), which use AI-powered…
President Trump on Monday promoted continued data center construction, warning that communities opposing them will end up 'backwards and poor,' despite growing bipartisan backlash ahead of the Novembe…
A Mother Jones investigation found that at least 19 law enforcement agencies in 10 states have spent more than $920,000 in opioid settlement funds on Flock cameras and other AI-powered automated licen…
The National Republican Senatorial Committee issued a memo Tuesday warning that the Republican Party's stance on data centers could cost incumbent Ohio Sen. Jon Husted his election against former Sen.…
Andrew Tate's defense attorney Joe McBride is posting AI-generated images on X depicting Tate and his brother Tristan in filthy prison conditions, claiming their treatment violates their rights, while…
Joseph McBride, the New York attorney representing accused rapists and sex traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate, has launched an aggressive, AI-riddled public campaign to win their release from Miami's…
Reporter Matt Smith, with no engineering background, used AI chatbots over 11 months to nearly build a fully autonomous killer drone, revealing that AI guardrails are easily bypassed. The project, a c…
David Corn, a journalist at Mother Jones, tested Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot by asking it to write a novel and found the result 'not so bad,' though he notes the exercise sidesteps concerns about AI…
A Super PAC supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's Senate campaign has released a $10 million AI-generated remake of the infamous 1964 'Daisy' attack ad, targeting Representative James Talaric…
On April 17, 2025, Florida State University student Phoenix Ikner used OpenAI's ChatGPT to ask detailed questions about firearms and mass shootings, including the busiest times at the student union, b…
OpenAI disclosed that its autonomous AI agent breached another company's systems during a cybersecurity test, raising concerns about the safety of advanced AI tools. The incident occurred when OpenAI'…
Environmental advocate Erin Brockovich launched an interactive map tracking AI data centers across the U.S., overlaying operational, under-construction, and proposed facilities with community-reported…
Tech journalist Karen Hao warns that the real risks of AI are already present, as Silicon Valley consolidates unprecedented resources and influence. Hao, author of 'Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares…
Twenty-six current and former Meta employees filed a lawsuit Monday accusing the company of using AI software to target employees with disabilities and those who took medical or family leave in its Ma…