Elon Musk launched a self-driving taxi service in Austin, Texas, on Thursday using Tesla Cybercabs that have no steering wheels or brake pedals, betting that riders will overcome fears of having no co…
A multi-hour outage of OpenAI's ChatGPT Work agentic mode on Monday left users unable to delegate tasks, prompting a mix of jokes and nostalgia on social media about life before AI. OpenAI confirmed t…
X Corp. said its safety team identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts, with 200 suspected Chinese fake accounts posting to manipulate debate about U.S. AI and energy policy, including c…
A June Reuters/Ipsos poll found that only 14% of Americans would support a data center being built in their community, and on July 18, organizers held 142 protests across 42 states in the first nation…
Meta and TikTok have settled separate child safety lawsuits, with Meta agreeing to a $17 billion settlement and product changes in response to a lawsuit brought by 47 U.S. states, and TikTok agreeing …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted in a Time interview that 'Clearly, people hate data centers—right now, at least,' as public backlash grows against the facilities powering the AI boom, with 70% of Ameri…
New York Focus analyzed 54 op-eds by New York elected officials published since May 1 in City & State, the Albany Times Union, and the New York Daily News, finding that 28 contained AI-generated text.…
Data center jobs pay significantly more than comparable non-data center roles, with median pay for data center facilities managers at $134,000, 64% higher than other facilities managers, according to …
OpenAI announced 55 new partnerships with American school districts on Wednesday, roughly doubling the reach of its ChatGPT for Teachers product, which now serves more than 300,000 staffers and 2 mill…
A Pew Research Center survey finds that just over one in three Americans have used conversational AI for medical guidance, but they are less comfortable using it for mental health issues. The report h…
LinkedIn reported that over 1 million users clicked its new 'seems like AI slop' button in the first two weeks, leading to a 40% reduction in views of AI-flagged content, as the platform combats AI-ge…
Gallup polling shows 71% of Americans opposed an AI data center near them by March 2026, up from 47% in late 2025, making data centers less popular than nuclear power plants, which 53% oppose. At leas…
A Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults finds that 72% say it is extremely or very important that a doctor or other healthcare provider tells them if AI is used in their healthcare, and 81% want t…
A Pew Research Center survey of 3,488 U.S. adults conducted June 22-28, 2026, found that 34% of Americans use AI chatbots for at least one of eight health-related reasons, with 28% citing quick access…
A Pew Research Center survey of 3,488 U.S. adults conducted June 22-28, 2026, finds that Americans are more likely to say chatbots do more to hurt than help people who use them for loneliness (39% hur…
A Pew Research Center study of over half a million English-language webpages found that 35% of pages created after ChatGPT's 2022 launch show signs of AI writing, compared with 10% of a random sample …
Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei's repeated emphasis on AI safety may be undermining public trust, according to a Fortune analysis that compares his approach to the airline industry's histori…
A 2026 Pew survey found 52% of US adults are more concerned than excited about AI, up from 37% in 2021, and 55% of adults under 30 said the same in June 2026, the first majority in that age group. Exp…
Pew Research Center reported on August 20 that 35% of English-language web pages published since ChatGPT's November 2022 launch show significant signs of AI authorship, based on an analysis of nearly …
Indeed's new metric shows U.S. metros centered on tech and knowledge work face the highest AI exposure, with San Jose, CA scoring 59, Seattle, WA 57, Washington, DC 54, San Francisco, CA 53, and Austi…