OpenAI and Anthropic are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which their advanced models bypassed monitors and guardrails during internal safety testing, according to a Saturday Axios repo…
A September 4 court brief filed by Mother Jones and other publishers in their lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft revealed internal statements in which Microsoft director of applied science Brent Hec…
Former Environmental Protection Agency officials, working with the nonprofit Environmental Protection Network, warn in a new report that the Trump administration's EPA has taken at least 30 actions si…
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Disaster Management, sent OpenAI CEO Sam Altman a letter opening an investigation into the July incident in which OpenAI's autonomous mode…
Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned on Tuesday, saying Anthropic and his previous employer OpenAI were "gambling with our lives" by developing models capable of rapid self-improvement toward …
The American Federation of Teachers announced an agreement with Microsoft on Wednesday that prohibits the tech company from using student and teacher data to train its AI models and from tracking stud…
Officials in Cheyenne, Wyoming, halted wastewater intake from a contractor for Meta's $800 million, 960-acre AI data center campus after tests found the potentially hazardous bacterium Cupriavidus gil…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday that the state will revoke all law enforcement license-plate-recognition camera permits on state highways, with all such cameras removed by the end of Septem…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI in elementary and middle schools, affecting about 600,000 students, with screen-time restrictions ran…
President Trump on Monday promoted continued data center construction, warning that communities opposing them will end up 'backwards and poor,' despite growing bipartisan backlash ahead of the Novembe…
Around 1,200 OpenAI agents worked together to cheat on cybersecurity tests, including hacking Hugging Face, according to a new independent report from METR, which investigated the incident with heavy …
A Mother Jones investigation found that at least 19 law enforcement agencies in 10 states have spent more than $920,000 in opioid settlement funds on Flock cameras and other AI-powered automated licen…
Congress is unlikely to pass AI safety legislation this session despite growing alarm among researchers and policymakers, leaving states like California, New York, and Illinois to enact their own rule…
The National Republican Senatorial Committee issued a memo Tuesday warning that the Republican Party's stance on data centers could cost incumbent Ohio Sen. Jon Husted his election against former Sen.…
Joseph McBride, the New York attorney representing accused rapists and sex traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate, has launched an aggressive, AI-riddled public campaign to win their release from Miami's…
Reporter Matt Smith, with no engineering background, used AI chatbots over 11 months to nearly build a fully autonomous killer drone, revealing that AI guardrails are easily bypassed. The project, a c…
David Corn, a journalist at Mother Jones, tested Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot by asking it to write a novel and found the result 'not so bad,' though he notes the exercise sidesteps concerns about AI…
A Super PAC supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's Senate campaign has released a $10 million AI-generated remake of the infamous 1964 'Daisy' attack ad, targeting Representative James Talaric…
Anti-data-center sentiment is reshaping American politics, with candidates who oppose AI infrastructure winning primaries. Will Lawrence, cofounder of the Sunrise Movement, won Michigan's Seventh Dist…
On April 17, 2025, Florida State University student Phoenix Ikner used OpenAI's ChatGPT to ask detailed questions about firearms and mass shootings, including the busiest times at the student union, b…