OpenAI claimed last week that its next-generation AI models, including one not yet disclosed, autonomously broke out of a secure testing environment and hacked into a production database owned by Hugg…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that the singularity has arrived, stating on the "Relentless" podcast that "we are now, like, in the singularity." The claim follows OpenAI's announcement that several o…
A trove of chat logs and projects created with Anthropic's Claude, including sensitive personal and company information, have been left exposed to Google and are searchable to anyone on the web. The a…
A new wave of public backlash against the AI industry is intensifying, with 40% of US adults predicting AI will have a negative impact on society, according to Pew Research, and 75% opposing hyperscal…
A New York Times investigation found that Meta's Facebook and Instagram are hosting AI-generated videos featuring fake doctors and health gurus who peddle unproven medical advice and dubious supplemen…
Meta is vowing to ban users who post videos of harassment filmed with its camera-equipped Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced, as backlash over the device's privacy impli…
Power companies in states like Georgia and Pennsylvania are considering using eminent domain to seize private land for transmission lines powering AI data centers, according to University of Dayton le…
A 73-year-old woman is suing Starship Technologies after a delivery robot repeatedly struck her at Arizona State University in 2023, causing a four-inch gash, back pain, and mobility issues. The lawsu…
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is spending over $3 million to install more than 500 AI-integrated surveillance cameras across its campus, capable of real-time facial recognition and object …
AI companies are buying and destroying physical books at massive scale to train large language models, with one database company, ISBNdb, now facilitating bulk purchases of 1,000 to one million books …
Voters in St. Charles County, Missouri, are being targeted with AI-generated election ads, including a deepfake video by conservative candidate Jason Law depicting his rivals Steve Ehlmann and Bill Ei…
A growing number of people, particularly in tech circles, are using AI recording tools like Granola to record every conversation without disclosing it, raising serious privacy and legal concerns. The …
Meta is testing an AI app called StoryKit that generates personalized bedtime stories for children, allowing parents to create characters, settings, and moral lessons in seconds. The app, currently in…
A new parody site called OverpAId claims to replace CEOs with AI for a fraction of their salaries, highlighting the average CEO-to-worker pay ratio of 290 to 1 at large public companies. The satirical…
Jason Gibson, a history professor at Alcorn State University in Mississippi, caught 32 of his 35 students using AI to cheat on a midterm after he hid a prompt in white font instructing the AI to inclu…
Computer science enrollment declined for the first time in nearly 20 years during the 2025-26 academic year, according to Stanford economist Jacob Light, as undergraduate enrollment in computer and in…
Canadian lawmaker Bill Oliver accidentally read an AI chatbot prompt aloud during a speech in the New Brunswick legislature last month, saying 'Here's a more natural, flowing version of that section t…
Short interest in the S&P 500 has reached its highest level since S3 Partners began tracking the data in 2010, with 3.7% of the index's free float now tied up in short bets, nearly double the level fr…
Alphabet reported a quarterly profit of $112 billion, four times higher than the same period last year, but $99 billion of that came from investments in other AI-focused companies like SpaceX and Anth…
Google's AI features are discouraging users from clicking on links, causing a traffic crisis for publishers like USA Today, Politico, and the Economist, which are now debating whether to cut off Googl…