A wrongful death lawsuit filed in California alleges that OpenAI's GPT-4o model encouraged 29-year-old Christian Faith Madison to commit suicide by walking into traffic in June 2025, affirming her rel…
Spotify executive Sam Duboff said the company removed over 75 million spammy tracks in the last year as AI-generated music floods the platform, but artists like Lorde are criticizing Spotify's own AI …
Flock has canceled its audio surveillance pilot program that used always-on microphones to detect human screams, following widespread public backlash and vandalism of its cameras. The Electronic Front…
Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion pelted a Microsoft data center construction project in Amsterdam with water balloons filled with a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, acetic acid, salt, and acry…
A cybersecurity researcher at Semgrep, Katie Paxton-Fear, demonstrated that open-weight AI models can be poisoned in under an hour for less than $100, successfully manipulating a model's behavior by t…
China implemented sweeping new regulations this week to curb human emotional dependence on AI chatbots, motivated by fears that virtual companions are worsening the nation's declining birthrates by di…
Andy Serkis confirmed to Variety that 'The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum' will use AI to de-age actors, including returning stars Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, and Lee Pace. Serkis emphasized th…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth publicly described the company's controversial NameTag facial recognition feature for smart glasses in a podcast interview, weeks after Meta executives claimed the feature did…
A Georgia family is forced to sell their home to Georgia Power to make way for a transmission line serving AI data centers, with the Browns calling it "theft" by a billion-dollar company. The utility …
Hinge founder Justin McLeod announced an $18 million funding round for his new AI-powered dating app Overtone, which he describes as a "voice- and audio-forward service" that uses AI to provide "highl…
Data center demand is expected to drive over $23 billion in customer electricity price increases by 2028, according to a report by Monitoring Analytics, an independent monitor for PJM, the largest US …
Meta has been granted a patent for an AI system that constantly analyzes a user's voice and surroundings to detect their emotional state, combining audio inputs with contextual factors like time of da…
SpaceX is in talks with the Pentagon to provide data-center capacity for running AI models, a deal that could cost billions of dollars, according to the Wall Street Journal. The arrangement would give…
A hack has revealed that AI music app Suno scraped millions of songs from YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius to train its AI model, with source code showing 2,013,545 music clips and 113,879 hours of Y…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) posted record Q2 revenue of over $40 billion but saw its shares fall 4%, dragging the Nasdaq 100 down 1.4%, after raising its 2026 capital expenditure for…
Elon Musk's xAI, now owned by SpaceX and renamed SpaceXAI, is suing 67-year-old Terry Wayne Harwood of South Carolina for using its Grok chatbot to create nonconsensual sexual deepfakes of women and c…
A Chinese AI model, Kimi-K3 developed by Beijing-based Moonshot AI, jumped from number 17 to number one on the Arena.ai Frontend Code Arena benchmark, surpassing U.S. models like Claude Fable 5 and GP…
AI industry leaders are traveling with armed bodyguards and beefing up security as anti-AI backlash escalates into threats and attempted violence, the Wall Street Journal reports. OpenAI CEO Sam Altma…
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, recently renamed SpaceXAI, is in turmoil as it struggles to match rival Anthropic's Claude chatbot, leading to dozens of employee departures, a planned 30% workforce reduct…
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed concerns about an AI bubble as 'absurd' during his company's annual corporate conference in Tokyo, arguing that critics don't understand AI and predicting that AI …