Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei released a manifesto titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" four days after former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's viral posts about accelerating AI development, arguing that…
Residents of Wisconsin Rapids, a city of about 18,000, are fighting a proposal by Russian-founded PNK Group to convert a closed paper mill into an AI data center, citing environmental and community co…
A Financial Times report quotes a financier who says recent 'AI-native' job candidates are 'alarmingly shallow,' and that critical thinking—a skill more common among humanities graduates—is the most i…
Google shut down AlphaFold, DeepMind's AI-powered protein structure prediction tool, and removed Demis Hassabis from his role directing DeepMind, according to reports from Engadget and Ars Technica. T…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei expressed concern that employees are joining the AI company for salary rather than its mission, despite the company's $965 billion valuation and public benefit corporation s…
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…
An interdisciplinary group of academics from around the world have signed Stanford University's Critical AI group's 'Manyfesto,' which calls for AI to be governed as a normal technology and asserts th…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's warning that overregulating AI could lead to a surveillance state is met with skepticism by critics who point to his own actions, including allowing advertisers to mine ChatGPT…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pushing an 'AI optimism' message through advertisements and a Wall Street Journal op-ed, but the company's AI strategy remains scattered after failed products like AI-gener…
Y Combinator's Startup School drew about 6,000 young founders to San Francisco's Chase Center for panels featuring AI leaders and networking events, with Y Combinator hand-selecting attendees and offe…
Generative AI has not improved productivity at the level of individual companies or the economy as a whole four years after ChatGPT's release, according to Matt Scherer, a fellow at Open Markets Insti…
The 2026 World Cup is the first to fully integrate AI, with FIFA developing its own FIFA AI Pro model in partnership with Lenovo and deploying it across analytics, refereeing, player protection, and f…
A new report from human rights nonprofit Witness warns that the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a content-credentialing network backed by OpenAI, Meta, YouTube, LinkedIn, and…
Senator Marsha Blackburn, running for Tennessee governor, released a campaign ad attacking China over farmland purchases, despite no evidence of Chinese front companies buying land in the state. The a…
A new documentary funded by Automattic, the parent company of Tumblr and WordPress, urges the public to rally behind open-source code as a principle against platform decay and unregulated closed-sourc…
A journalist attended an 'intellectual social salon' about AI after receiving an Instagram invitation, finding a no-frills gathering in an Upper East Side apartment where most attendees expressed nega…
Generative AI could be a doomed technology akin to the Wankel engine, warns Matt Scherer, a fellow at Open Markets Institute, in a Hard Reset piece. Scherer argues that if the AI bubble bursts, the ec…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp used a CNBC interview to promote the company's new 'AI sovereignty' manifesto and an expanded partnership with NVIDIA offering open-weight AI models to U.S. government agencies,…
Frontier AI companies OpenAI, Anthropic, and NVIDIA did not participate in San Francisco Pride events this year, avoiding public stances on diversity amid a broader corporate pullback from Pride celeb…
A new report from the Brookings Institution warns that policies to protect workers from AI displacement must accelerate, recommending early exposure to trades training and human-in-the-loop roles. Aut…