Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle are expected to see their combined free cash flow shrink to almost nothing in 2026 and turn negative to $125 billion in 2027, according to a Washington Post …
A Gizmodo explainer distinguishes surveillance pricing from dynamic pricing, surge pricing, and algorithmic pricing, noting that New York has passed a law requiring disclosure when prices are set by a…
An estimated 99% of Fortune 500 companies now use some form of automation in hiring, with 88% using AI for initial screening and about 70% allowing AI to reject candidates without human oversight, acc…
At the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng offered divergent views on AI's future, with Hinton warning that AI could surpass human intellig…
The Washington Post reports that the largest U.S. technology companies are spending heavily on artificial intelligence, with capital expenditures projected to reach $400 billion in 2026, up from $200 …
The Business Software Alliance, a trade group representing Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, Salesforce and IBM, told the federal General Services Administration that proposed contract rules requiring AI sys…
ISBNdb, a book database company, removed its landing page offering printed books for AI training and denied ever purchasing, scanning, or selling books, following 404 Media's reporting. The company st…
Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, has spent tens of millions of dollars acquiring millions of antiquarian books to scan for training its large language models, then destroying them, according t…
A new report reveals that Anthropic purchased between 500,000 and 1 million rare, antique, and out-of-print books to strip, scan, and destroy them for AI training data, with internal documents stating…
OpenAI and Anthropic have asked the U.S. government to consider slowing down the pace of artificial intelligence development, endorsing a call for government intervention to regulate AI progress, acco…
Anthropic spent tens of millions of dollars secretly buying, scanning and destroying millions of physical books to train its Claude chatbot, according to more than 4,000 pages of unsealed court docume…
AI is enabling cybercriminals to personalize phishing attacks at scale, according to a Washington Post opinion piece. The technology allows attackers to craft convincing messages tailored to individua…
OpenAI chief Sam Altman is renewing his 'democratic AI' pitch, framing the AI race as a binary between U.S.-led democracies and authoritarian governments, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pushes for t…
A Washington Post study claiming ChatGPT has a strong left-wing bias is flawed due to artificial constraints and mislabeling of political positions, according to a replication analysis. When the 30-wo…
Silicon Valley workers earning $550,000 a year still feel insecure, with one husband asking his wife to take over parenting so he could become his company's top AI user, and a founder using Claude to …
ISBNdb, a company that offers high-volume book acquisition services for AI companies, says printed books published before 2022 are ideal for AI training data because they are free of AI-generated text…
Bill Gurley, a prominent venture capitalist, argues in a Washington Post op-ed that open models for AI were inevitable and beneficial for competition, countering concerns from companies like Anthropic…
Peter Thiel, cofounder of Palantir and a major Silicon Valley political financier, published his fullest public argument yet on his 'Antichrist' theory in a second co-authored essay for First Things, …
Jessica Contrera, a former Washington Post reporter, spent months observing a single mother and her two daughters in Shaker Heights, Ohio, to report a story on how AI is changing family life, which wa…
Sen. Mitch McConnell's office released a photo Sunday night showing the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican smiling beside his wife, Elaine Chao, while holding a Washington Post Sports section, but the im…