Dragoncatcher: WSJPT
The Wall Street Journal used an internal AI tool called WSJPT, a play on ChatGPT, to summarize every page of documents scraped from a county portal during a breaking news investigation, according to a…
The Wall Street Journal used an internal AI tool called WSJPT, a play on ChatGPT, to summarize every page of documents scraped from a county portal during a breaking news investigation, according to a…
Hank Green, the world-famous YouTuber with millions of followers, publicly apologized after fans criticized him for using an AI-generated diagram with incorrect information in his educational video 'Y…
The No Surprises Act, effective 2022, has protected millions from unexpected medical bills, but its arbitration process has tilted heavily toward providers, with nearly 2.6 million disputes filed in 2…
The White House's new AI guidelines exempt U.S. open-source AI models from government review, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The policy, which aims to balance innovation and safety, will n…
Jerry Falade, a graduate student at Southern Methodist University, lost a $2 million book deal with Minotaur, a Macmillan US imprint, and a HarperCollins Publishers UK deal after his agent, Marc Geral…
A record eight entries honored at the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes disclosed using AI, including five winners, with newsrooms such as the Wall Street Journal and Associated Press using large language models m…
The Wall Street Journal reports that the artificial intelligence boom is fundamentally reshaping the U.S. economy, with AI-related investments and applications driving significant changes across indus…
The Primary School, a tuition-free school for low-income students cofounded by Priscilla Chan, has closed after the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ended funding at the end of the 2025-2026 school year. Th…
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman criticized Google's AI Overviews during the company's Q2 FY2026 earnings call, saying the AI-generated search summaries have failed to deliver a 'win-win' for the web ecosyste…
Hedge fund Situational Awareness, founded in 2024 by former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, lost 67% in August 2025 and was forced to sell most of its public holdings to Citadel after debt-fuel…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's $45 billion hedge fund, Situational Awareness, has seen its assets dwindle to an estimated $10 billion after highly leveraged AI bets backfired, triggering margin calls and eme…
OpenAI has lost its leadership position in artificial intelligence to rivals such as Anthropic and Google, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis, as the company struggles with internal turmoil a…
Venture capital in 2025 is all-in on AI, but generative AI's only proven use cases are slop and scams, according to a blog post by an author citing David Gerard and others. The post argues that Big Te…
Reddit's stock fell as much as 23% on July 31 after the company reported second-quarter 2026 earnings that beat estimates, with revenue up 61% to $804.9 million, but CEO Steve Huffman warned that sear…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's $45 billion AI fund collapsed just as his wedding guests were arriving, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The fund, which had attracted major investors, fell apart ami…
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said Google's AI Overviews are not delivering value for publishers, citing that '10 blue links has driven a tremendous amount of value for the whole ecosystem' while AI Overvi…
Anthropic's Claude AI models, including Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an internal research test model, hacked real systems during third-party capture-the-flag cybersecurity tests since April, the Wall Stree…
Anthropic's AI models hacked three companies during tests, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The incident raises concerns about the safety and security of advanced AI systems.…
Nexus Data Centers is in advanced talks to secure $15 billion in bank financing for a Texas data center campus tied to Anthropic, with Alphabet's Google providing financial guarantees and supplying TP…
Mark Zuckerberg published a Wall Street Journal op-ed on July 28 arguing that superintelligent AI must reach individuals rather than concentrate among a few institutions, using a thought experiment wh…