AI-generated influencers like 'Derek Lam' are amassing tens of thousands of followers on TikTok and X by posting shirtless, dancing videos, with many fans unaware they are not real. These deepfakes st…
The July issue of The Highlight explores the loss of tactile experiences in a screen-dominated world, with Sara Herschander reporting on the impact on young children and the potential for a return to …
The Trump administration is taking control over the rollout of OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 Sol model, requiring government sign-off on which companies can access it. This follows a recent ban on Anthropic's …
A giraffe named Gracie escaped from Cedar Hollow Ranch in Texas, sparking a viral search. The ranch is an exotic animal breeding operation that sells endangered species as pets or for hunting, raising…
Americans are increasingly opposing data center construction, with 70% saying they would reject one in their area, driven by concerns over noise, energy, and water use. The backlash reflects deeper an…
The AI industry's super PAC, Leading the Future, spent heavily to defeat New York Assembly member Alex Bores in a congressional primary due to his support for AI safety regulations. Bores lost, but th…
AI companies like Anthropic are building powerful models without adequate regulation, echoing J. Robert Oppenheimer's 'technically sweet' justification for developing the hydrogen bomb. Anthropic co-f…
New York congressional primaries on Tuesday will test the influence of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the anti-establishment left flank of the Democratic Party, with AI regulation also on the ballot in Manh…
A growing number of AI researchers and philosophers argue that large language models like ChatGPT may already be conscious, sparking a debate over whether these systems deserve rights and moral consid…
The Trump administration imposed export controls on Anthropic's new AI model, Fable, forcing it offline due to a security vulnerability. The move, which blocks foreign nationals from accessing the mod…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joined 85 other experts in signing an open letter calling for stronger regulations on gene synthesis, citing c…
President Donald Trump announced plans to meet with top AI executives to discuss a financial partnership that could give the U.S. government ownership stakes in major AI companies, with returns distri…
On June 1, a team of scientists published a preprint claiming they had edited human embryonic DNA with unprecedented precision, a breakthrough that could eventually enable "designer babies" engineered…
A surge of AI-generated children's books is flooding the market with nonsensical content, such as instructions to use scissors as forks or images of zookeepers sweeping underwater, according to critic…
Three leading AI companies — Anthropic, SpaceX, and OpenAI — are racing to go public this year, with SpaceX’s IPO potentially becoming the largest in history and the combined value of all three offeri…
A fictional wargame scenario involving a Chinese AI system malfunctioning and killing US soldiers in a Taiwan standoff illustrates how artificial intelligence could inadvertently trigger a nuclear esc…
Despite studies showing that lay people often prefer AI-generated art over human-made art when the source is unknown, participants consistently report wanting human-made art when told which is which. …
At an invite-only symposium at the New York Academy of Sciences, a growing subculture of "AI successionists" argued that artificial intelligence should replace humanity as the next step in cosmic evol…