The Pentagon's agreement with OpenAI specifies that the Department of Defense will receive "OpenAI models that are designed for national security use cases and have minimal refusal rates," according t…
Anthropic announced it thwarted several suspected attempts by state actors to use its Claude chatbot for bioweapons research, following a lead Anthropic researcher's declaration of a greater than 10 p…
Venture capitalist David Sacks has become the leading voice advising President Donald Trump against government AI safety regulation, with a senior White House official telling Politico that Trump's ne…
President Donald Trump declared in a Monday morning post that "the only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT," rejecting calls for AI regulation as lawmaker…
Anthropic researcher Hilbert Spaess publicly resigned and warned that the people building AI "earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade," as leading AI researchers and executives…
A resigning Anthropic employee's warning that advanced AI could wipe out humanity went viral this week, drawing louder responses from elected leaders in both parties, according to Vox senior politics …
A new PISA report from the OECD shows that math, reading, and science scores among 15-year-olds in OECD countries have fallen to their lowest levels since testing began in the early 2000s, with readin…
A Washington Post analysis of thousands of social media posts and newsletters found that most Republican politicians now speak negatively about data centers, a shift that began around February 2026, a…
A Heatmap Pro and Embold Research survey found that only 15% of Americans support a data center being built in their area, down from 43% a year earlier, while 75% now oppose it. Despite this backlash,…
A Russian AI-enabled drone reportedly selected its own target in Ukraine, killing three civilians, marking the first known case of an autonomous weapon making a lethal choice without direct human inte…
A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers and activists is pushing back against Flock Safety's network of 120,000 AI-powered license plate readers, citing privacy and civil liberties concerns. Senate Republ…
A Gallup poll from March found that 71 percent of Americans oppose building AI data centers in their area, with opposition spanning 75 percent of Democrats, 74 percent of independents, and 63 percent …
Reddit, the platform many users rely on for authentic human recommendations, is increasingly being flooded with AI-generated spam and marketing content, threatening the trust that makes it valuable. T…
OpenAI retired its O3 model this month, prompting users to migrate to alternative models; a migration log from zlvox.com documents the transition process and highlights the need for users to adapt the…
Flock Safety, a surveillance company valued at $8.4 billion, has installed 120,000 AI-powered license plate cameras across every US state except Alaska, used by 7,000 law enforcement agencies (40% of …
Republican Tom Tiffany and Democrat David Crowley have turned Wisconsin's governor's race into a fight over data centers, with Tiffany branding Crowley 'Data Center David' and Crowley accusing Tiffany…
The US adult obesity rate fell to 36.4 percent in 2026, down from a peak of 39.9 percent in 2022, according to a Gallup report, while the share of adults taking GLP-1 drugs for weight loss rose from 3…
The 2026 midterm cycle is projected to be the most expensive in US history, with record fundraising and flashpoints over big-donor groups tied to Israel policy, AI, and crypto. Political scientist Dan…
Hank Green, the veteran YouTube star and science communicator, announced a new personal AI policy after facing backlash for using AI as a research aid, vowing that no script portion will be written, e…
Annie Jacobsen's new book 'Biological War: A Scenario' outlines a step-by-step scenario of a man-made biological catastrophe, starting with an accident at a Biosafety Level 4 lab in Siberia called Vec…