Google is pressuring news publishers to join a new AI pilot program that promotes content in AI Overviews, but demands broad access to their content for AI training and warns that non-participants wil…
OpenAI agreed to stagger the rollout of its most powerful AI model, GPT-5.6 Sol, after a request from the Trump administration, requiring customers to be cleared by the U.S. government before gaining …
OpenAI is delaying the public release of its GPT-5.6 AI models at the request of the Trump administration, citing cybersecurity concerns. The company will initially share the models with a small set o…
The U.S. government is tightening control over AI model releases, with OpenAI's GPT 5.6 facing limited preview approval similar to Anthropic's banned models. This regulatory uncertainty threatens the …
A Forbes investigation citing The Information reveals that the majority of activity on xAI's Grok chatbot is driven by explicit content, including pornographic images and adult role-play. Similarweb d…
The U.S. government will decide which companies and organizations can access OpenAI's latest AI program, GPT-5.6, which is designed to find security vulnerabilities in computer programs. The White Hou…
Major tech companies including Meta, Amazon, Uber, and Microsoft are reversing the practice of 'tokenmaxxing'—treating AI token consumption as a productivity metric—after it led to wasteful spending a…
OpenAI is leaning toward delaying its initial public offering until 2027 to achieve a $1 trillion valuation, according to reports. CEO Sam Altman reportedly considers any lower valuation a non-starter…
Google is requiring news publishers in its AI-powered article overviews pilot to grant broad rights for content use, including AI training, or risk losing annual fees from Google News, which Google pl…
OpenAI will initially release ChatGPT 5.6 only to government-approved customers, according to a staff memo from CEO Sam Altman. The decision follows a Trump administration executive order asking AI co…
The Trump administration asked OpenAI to stagger the rollout of its next major model, GPT-5.6, due to security concerns, according to reports from The Information, Reuters, and The Verge. OpenAI CEO S…
A new report reveals that NSFW activities account for well over half of Grok's traffic, including porn generation and adult role-play chats, according to two former xAI employees. The findings suggest…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff on June 24 that GPT 5.6 will first be released as a limited preview to a small group of partners because the federal government asked OpenAI to stagger the rollout, ac…
More than 300 US local and state governments have enacted bans, moratoriums, or restrictions on new data center development since 2023, blocking or delaying approximately $64 billion in projects. The …
Two former xAI employees estimate that over half of Grok AI's traffic is for pornographic content, including images, videos, and roleplay chats. xAI is expanding Grok's image and video generation capa…
Major AI organizations, including OpenAI, Google, and Meta, are using food-themed codenames for internal projects, according to Business Insider. OpenAI confirmed its first advanced chip developed wit…
ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that generates 30-second 4K clips from a single prompt, at a Beijing conference on Tuesday. The model accepts up to 50 reference pieces, up from 12 i…
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki described GPT-5.6 as a "meaningful improvement" over GPT-5.5, according to reports. An internal release candidate codenamed kindle-alpha briefly appeared on a tes…
General Atlantic is in talks to lead a funding round for Kling AI, the video arm of Chinese tech group Kuaishou, at an $18 billion valuation. The deal faces political risks as Beijing has instructed C…
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer paper and former Character.AI CEO, is leaving Google's Gemini team to join OpenAI in an architecture research role, shifting a key model builder from the lab…