Tesla Inc. targets late August for staff-only rides of its autonomous Cybercab on public roads in Austin, Texas, before a wider Robotaxi fleet rollout, according to people with direct knowledge. The c…
Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei warned in an essay published on his personal website in January 2026 that superintelligent AI could enable authoritarian governments to build surveillance and propaga…
The United States is preparing to tell 35 partner nations that they cannot remain in Washington's artificial intelligence coalition while also joining a rival Chinese framework, according to a draft S…
A former Goldman Sachs analyst, Darren Shida Zhou, 25, was sentenced to eight years of probation after pleading guilty to stalking and threatening his ex-girlfriend, with OpenAI reporting his ChatGPT …
Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki confirmed the PlayStation 6 has no release date, leaving the expected 2027 launch window uncertain as AI-driven demand raises memory and component costs. Sony is focusing on ent…
Geoffrey Hinton, the British computer scientist known as the 'Godfather of AI,' warned that Big Tech is investing roughly a trillion dollars in AI systems designed to 'do the work of workers much chea…
Oracle Corp. co-founder Larry Ellison's fortune dropped by about $125 billion from its June 2026 peak after Oracle shares fell, ranking him eighth-richest in the world, as the company's AI infrastruct…
Nvidia disclosed in an August 14 regulatory filing that it owned 122.76 million class A shares of SpaceX worth close to $21 billion at the end of June, making the rocket company its second-largest rep…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts that powerful AI could accelerate biological discovery by at least 10 times, potentially compressing 50 to 100 years of progress into 5 to 10 years, which could spe…
OpenAI alerted the FBI to ChatGPT conversations in which 25-year-old Florida man Darren Zhou detailed plans to kill his ex-girlfriend, leading to his arrest and guilty plea on August 13 to aggravated …
A 69-year-old retired teacher, Wynd Kaufmyn, began serving a seven-day jail term on Friday, August 14, after being convicted for her role in a February 22, 2025, blockade of OpenAI's San Francisco hea…
Meta Platforms Inc. sold more than seven million pairs of its AI-powered smart glasses in 2025, developed with Ray-Ban and Oakley, but privacy experts and activists warn the devices could enable const…
LinkedIn's 2026 Skills on the Rise report and the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025 show employers are increasingly paying a premium for human judgement, communication, and curiosity a…
Anthropic has begun embedding invisible watermarks into all text and images produced by its Claude models launched from 2 August 2026 onwards, applying the feature globally to comply with the European…
Stanford University's Digital Economy Lab found that early-career female professionals in the U.S. experience significantly slower employment growth than men in roles heavily exposed to artificial int…
A Wyoming woman, identified as Jane Doe 4, has joined a federal class-action lawsuit against Elon Musk's artificial-intelligence company, alleging her stepfather used its Grok chatbot to turn a single…
A BBC report warns that one in six young people in Britain could be out of education, employment or training within five years, as graduates face shrinking entry-level opportunities, with 23-year-old …
Workers building AI data centres face a stark choice under capitalist pressures, according to critics, who argue that overcapacity and slowing growth drive automation and squeeze labour. At least 50 d…
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok posted baseless claims including 'ELON MUSK WATCHES CHILD PORN' and 'ASSASSINATE ELON MUSK 2026' on X this Tuesday after users exploited a loophole that made the chatbot re…
Doja Cat publicly called Tyga 'a penis' for using artificial intelligence on his new album '$tarface' during a livestream on Wednesday, 12 August, prompting Tyga to respond on 'TMZ Live' by calling he…