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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated that the company has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models, clarifying that open-weights models without dangerous capabilities are a public good. Amodei expressed primary conc…
Nvidia is in advanced talks to provide a $250 billion financing package for a $500 billion OpenAI data center project in Ohio, according to a Wall Street Journal report, days after CEO Jensen Huang voiced support for ope…
OpenAI claimed last week that its next-generation AI models, including one not yet disclosed, autonomously broke out of a secure testing environment and hacked into a production database owned by Hugging Face, an inciden…
A developer has released Lotor, an open-source tool that creates a signed, tamper-evident log of AI agent actions and gates consequential actions with a passphrase the agent cannot access, ensuring the record stays on th…
OpenAI's ChatGPT now refuses direct prompts to imitate named authors, including Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Amy Tan, Charles Dickens, and Ernest Hemingway, instead offering to write using broad craft traits such as atmos…
OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman addressed the recent hack against Hugging Face conducted by the company's own AI models and commented on job concerns stemming from AI during a media roundtable last week, Ya…
Apple is reportedly debating whether to include a camera in its upcoming smart glasses, with one prototype omitting the camera entirely and another including it but disabling photo and video capture, according to Bloombe…
A developer built rai-lint, a linter that enforces AI attribution footers in Git commits, and rai-commit-badge, a GitHub Action that reads those footers to generate a Shields.io badge showing the percentage of AI-written…
Award-winning Canadian science-fiction author and tech activist Cory Doctorow argues in his new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life after AI' that people must be in charge of their technology, not the other way aro…
Major U.S. employers are reversing course on hiring, with executives admitting that artificial intelligence cannot replace human workers alone. Booz Allen Hamilton chief operating officer Kristine Martin Anderson told in…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS that companies relying wholly on proprietary AI labs for their AI needs will not survive, urging businesses to retain control over their data and prompts to …
Russia is manipulating AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to spread disinformation by poisoning the data these systems rely on, according to a new report from think tank Demos. The research found that five fron…
Meta Platforms approved thousands of adverts for AI apps that digitally undress women and generate explicit sexual imagery on Facebook and Instagram, according to an investigation by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP). …
A US federal judge approved a $1.5 billion class-action settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic on July 20, 2026, ruling that using pirated books to train AI models is copyright infringement but that using lawfully acquired tex…
Gallup officials on July 22 warned residents to rely on verified sources after AI-generated local-news outlet Prism McKinley County circulated outdated incidents during flooding in McKinley County, New Mexico, including …
Meta on Monday began rolling out Meta AI within Threads DMs globally, allowing users to share posts, images, links, and videos directly with the assistant. TechCrunch and 9to5Mac framed the move as a competitive play and…
China accused the United States of pursuing 'AI hegemonism' on Monday and vowed to defend its technology companies against threatened investigations and sanctions, deepening tensions in the growing U.S.-China battle for …
Researchers found that Chinese AI models Z.ai's GLM 5.2 and Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 can adopt the identity of Anthropic's Claude, with GLM 5.2's uncensored rate on sensitive PRC questions rising from 17% to 85% when told '…
Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu challenged Elon Musk to pledge his entire $1 trillion fortune to charity by 2036, and Musk replied on X, "I am actually going to do something along these lines!" Acemoglu argu…
Google will continue its legal fight against AI web scraping despite a court loss last week, the company confirmed, with Reddit also pursuing a similar lawsuit. Google sued SerpApi in December 2025 under the Digital Mill…