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 …
Redditors on the subreddit r/FlockSurveillance, which hosts 422,000 activists and over 11,000 weekly contributions, are celebrating the vandalism of Flock Safety's automatic license plate readers with…
Sixteen Nobel Prize-winning economists, including Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT, signed an urgent letter warning that AI could drive an unprecedented economic transformation larger than the …
OpenAI has struck a deal with prediction market Kalshi to display Kalshi's World Cup betting odds in ChatGPT, marking the first partnership of its kind for the AI company. The collaboration, which cur…
Twelve nurses at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx were laid off on Sunday and replaced with AI software from Datavant, according to the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), which called the move…
Fountain 0 startup has released 'Odysseus: The Fall,' a fully AI-generated 135-minute film based on Homer's epic, costing in the 'mid-five figures' to produce. Director Ash Koosha hopes to capitalize …
26 former Meta employees filed a lawsuit accusing the company of using its internal AI platform "Checkpoint" to select workers for layoffs based on opaque productivity metrics and LLM token usage, dis…
Anthropic, the world's most valuable AI startup, released a commercial during the World Cup quarterfinal that opens with images of a burning house and a cemetery, implying AI could kill us all, before…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul issued a one-year statewide ban on new AI data center construction with an electrical capacity of 50 megawatts or more, making New York the first US state to impose such…
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok, integrated into X as an automatic translation feature, is generating profanity-laced and sexually explicit mistranslations of innocent posts, such as translating a video o…
A new Verasight survey of 1,700 adults finds that 69 percent of US employees support forcing AI companies to transfer 50 percent of their stock into a public wealth fund, an idea championed by Senator…
The Los Angeles Police Department is ending its contract with Flock Safety after an audit found the company's AI-powered license plate cameras generated 161 false stolen-vehicle alerts in two months, …
Major US companies including DoorDash, Airbnb, and Siemens are adopting Chinese AI models from DeepSeek and Z.ai, attracted by lower costs and open-weight flexibility, according to the Financial Times…
Meta's camera-equipped AI Glasses have sparked such a strong backlash over privacy violations and non-consensual recordings that some owners now avoid wearing them in public, according to Engadget. In…
The University of Chicago Law School is banning phones, tablets, and laptops in first-year classes and redesigning its curriculum to be more "AI-resilient" amid growing concerns over generative AI che…
A former Mayo Clinic research director and AI compliance lead, Traci Tamiko Eto, has filed a civil suit alleging the hospital retaliated against her for whistleblowing about its AI tools, including MA…
OpenAI is shutting down its AI browser Atlas, launched in October 2025, after nine months due to cybersecurity vulnerabilities, slow performance, and legal issues. The browser's agent mode failed to d…
Freelance journalist Ben Touati was fired by ClickOut Media, but the company continued publishing AI-generated articles under his byline, violating his standards. Touati used EU data protection law to…
Director Christopher Nolan criticized AI in filmmaking, calling it "slop" and noting that younger generations are rejecting the technology. He praised young directors Kane Parsons and Curry Barker for…