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…
The New York Times has amended its copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, dropping one claim against OpenAI and modifying another against Microsoft. The case, which alleges unaut…
Meta reassigned roughly 7,000 employees into AI-focused groups in mid-May, coinciding with about 8,000 layoffs, according to The New York Times. The reassignments, which placed many staff into an inte…
ElevenLabs released an officially licensed AI replica of actor Michael Caine's voice to narrate a new audiobook of Homer's The Odyssey, ahead of Christopher Nolan's film adaptation. The project highli…
Dean Karlan launched a Substack newsletter, starting with an updated guide on which World Cup team to root for based on global happiness, using AI to reduce costs and enable real-time updates. He argu…
Figma CEO Dylan Field told The New York Times' "Hard Fork" podcast that AI-generated design produces average outputs and humans remain essential for creating novel work, as the company releases AI "vi…
Figma CEO Dylan Field said creative professionals should not fear AI-generated design, arguing that AI produces average work while humans can create something fundamentally new. He made the remarks at…
Several authors, including Anthony Horowitz, are openly using AI tools like ChatGPT for research and writing assistance, challenging the stigma against AI in publishing. A Cambridge study found that a…
Truthout published an analysis on June 17, 2026, arguing that corporate news coverage frames artificial intelligence as a contest among elites, using the Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI lawsuit as a…
A federal judge ordered Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer Parties to pay Blake Lively's legal fees after she accused him of sexual harassment and a smear campaign. The judge denied Lively's request for …
Contrary to widespread claims, only about one-third of Americans actively use generative AI tools like ChatGPT, with another third using them occasionally and a third never using them at all. Data fro…
Anthropic disabled its advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers on June 12 after a U.S. export control directive citing national security concerns, including a potential jailbreak. Th…
The US government issued an export-control directive suspending foreign-national access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, citing national security concerns over a reported jailbreaking metho…
Jeff Bezos' startup Prometheus has raised $12 billion in new funding, bringing its valuation to $41 billion, as the company works to develop an "artificial general engineer" aimed at accelerating inve…
Jeff Bezos announced his new AI startup, Prometheus, will focus on creating an "artificial general engineer" to design physical products, following a $12 billion funding round that values the company …
The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 12, #1097, features four categories all beginning with the phrase "starting with." The yellow group focuses on incantations, the green on animal group na…
AI spending is projected to reach nearly $2.6 trillion in 2026, a 47% increase from the prior year, as enterprises face mounting cost pressures from heavy AI usage. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has cal…
Nasdaq changed its rules to allow SpaceX to enter the Nasdaq 100 index almost immediately after its IPO, bypassing the standard one-year waiting period typically required for new stocks. The move, req…
A federal judge in Mississippi sanctioned four lawyers—two from each side of a dispute over solar project fees—for submitting court filings that contained fake, AI-hallucinated legal citations. U.S. D…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 2, 2026, directing federal agencies to collaborate with AI developers on a voluntary program requiring frontier models to undergo federal cyber…