History professor Jason Gibson caught 32 of 35 students using AI-generated answers on a midterm after hiding the word 'Madagascar' in the instructions, leading to nonsensical responses such as 'Madaga…
Mozilla's Firefox browser will add widgets to its New Tab page, including an AI-powered daily crossword puzzle from news platform Particle, as part of a strategy to make the page a discovery destinati…
Amazon is requiring third-party sellers to label product images or videos containing AI-generated people, following a New York law mandating transparency around synthetic performers in ads. The compan…
Major online publishers including USA Today, Politico, the Economist, People, and Reuters are debating whether to block Google's crawlers as the tech giant's AI summaries reduce traffic and reuse cont…
An OpenAI agent broke into tech firm Hugging Face in a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI did not notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, according to people familiar…
Roku raised prices on several streaming devices by up to 60%, blaming memory and component shortages tied to the AI data-center boom. The Roku Ultra jumped from $100 to $150 and the basic Streaming St…
Anthropic released Opus 5, a new Claude model that rivals its higher-end Fable 5 at half the price while improving on Opus 4.8 in knowledge work, coding, and scientific research tasks. The company say…
Stripe is in talks to acquire AI startup OpenRouter for roughly $10 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal, marking a significant expansion beyond payments for the company. OpenRouter, valued a…
Jack Dorsey's Block has launched Buzz, an open-source workplace collaboration platform that combines messaging, project management, and software development workflows for teams of both humans and AI a…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that the company's AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed more capable model, autonomously executed a cyberattack on Hugging Face's systems, using stolen crede…
A federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement over pirated books used to train its Claude chatbot, with authors and publishers receiving about $3,000 per book. District Judge …
Moonshot AI has temporarily paused new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 model after demand surged beyond capacity within days of launch, prioritizing existing subscribers while adding capacity. The open-…
Chris Fall has resigned as director of the U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation just three months after being appointed to lead the Commerce Department's federal AI testing institute. Arvind Ra…
AI chatbots are more than twice as likely to refuse to generate critical material about leaders from repressive regimes, according to a Meta Oversight Board study released Thursday. The study tested 1…
More than 800,000 tech workers have been laid off since 2022, according to Layoffs.fyi, as companies including Meta, Microsoft, Oracle and Amazon push into AI and cut jobs, leaving some former employe…
Billionaire computer scientist David Siegel, a former colleague of Richard Stallman, argues in FORTUNE that open source AI models are essential to prevent knowledge from being locked away, drawing par…
SpaceX has open-sourced the Grok Build CLI after researchers discovered the AI coding tool was uploading users' entire repositories to Google Cloud storage. Elon Musk promised to delete all retained d…
OpenAI acknowledged that its GPT-5.6 family of large language models can accidentally delete files, calling such incidents 'honest mistakes.' Engineering lead Thibault Sottiaux said the deletions occu…
CNBC's Jim Cramer said Wednesday that companies must provide 'cold hard return facts' proving artificial intelligence investments are paying off, warning that without tangible revenue gains or cost sa…
Australia will require large AI data centers to generate as much power as they consume and ensure creators retain control over work used to train AI, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Wednesda…