The New York Times and several other publishers asked a federal court to penalize OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement, accusing the AI company of using their articles without permission to train…
The Mercury News and other media outlets filed a motion seeking sanctions against OpenAI, alleging the company destroyed evidence and misrepresented its ability to locate stolen news stories in traini…
Anthropic will lease the entire 16-floor building at 330 Hudson St. in Manhattan's Hudson Square, aiming to double its New York workforce to 1,000 employees by the end of 2026. The 465,630-square-foot…
Anthropic is leasing an entire 16-story building at 330 Hudson Street in Lower Manhattan, totaling 466,000 square feet—a 30x increase from its current New York footprint. The AI company plans to doubl…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for July 8, #1123, features categories including 'Cut into thin pieces,' 'Motif,' 'Guitar playing techniques,' and 'House of ____.' Players can find hints and ans…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is using Anthropic's AI model Mythos to audit government software for vulnerabilities, according to three sources. The audits, conducte…
A new analysis warns that over-reliance on AI for ethical decisions leads to 'moral deskilling,' as people outsource reasoning, blame, and permission to machines. Studies show AI advice is often trust…
Some AI researchers argue that scaling large language models may not be sufficient to achieve human-level intelligence, pointing to alternative approaches such as world models, pure reinforcement lear…
A study of the top 10,000 websites' robots.txt files found that 38% of GPTBot rules were written in the last quarter of 2023, following the crawler's launch and the New York Times lawsuit. Most sites …
The US, China, and Russia are collectively investing over $2 trillion in AI, drones, hypersonic weapons, and satellite systems, reshaping the global arms race. The Pentagon's fiscal 2026 budget includ…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for July 7, #1122, features pop-culture categories including rooms in Clue, student athlete designations, words ending in 'twist', and hidden 'Sesame Street' char…
The New York Times reports that philosophy majors are in high demand at AI firms, with companies hiring philosophers to tackle questions of ethics, consciousness, and reasoning in artificial intellige…
Voters are increasingly using AI tools as nonpartisan researchers for the 2026 midterm elections, viewing them as efficient alternatives to traditional news and voter guides. Experts warn that these t…
A man walked into the White House in 2023 with an AI chatbot-generated recipe for a pandemic, and by 2026 the New York Times reported that leading AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude can now gu…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for July 3, #1118, features categories including positive feelings, retro expressions of approval, bad things to give someone, and things pronounced 'T'. The answ…
Habitual publisher traffic is collapsing as AI bot traffic surged 187% in 2025 while human traffic grew only 3.1%, eroding the click-based value exchange. Direct traffic to major publishers fell 19.9%…
Together AI, an open-source AI infrastructure startup, reached a valuation exceeding $8 billion after a significant funding round, more than doubling its valuation since early 2025. The company, which…
AI investment is on pace to top a trillion dollars a year, diverting capital, industrial real estate, electricity, and labor from housing, manufacturing, and other sectors, according to a New York Tim…
San Francisco tech workers earning mid-six-figure salaries are being priced out of the housing market by a new wave of 'AI elite' arrivals, as AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic prepare for public…
The New York Times published a headline stating "Half a million known virus cases" during the Omicron peak, when the US alone exceeded that many cases daily, implying a factor-of-1000 error. The autho…