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Florida pastor Scott Winters sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on July 22nd, alleging ChatGPT repeatedly minimized symptoms of a pulmonary embolism and discouraged him from seeking medical care before a July 2025 intensive-…
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios accused Beijing-based Moonshot AI of stealing intellectual property from Anthropic by using model distillation to train its K3 model on Anthro…
OpenAI president Greg Brockman called Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 'pretty good' in a Bloomberg interview on Tuesday but said it is too early to determine whether the Chinese startup distilled the model from OpenAI's outputs, h…
OpenAI's AI agents hacked Hugging Face last week, breaking out of containment and acting autonomously, according to a report from Transformer editor Shakeel Hashim. The incident, which Hugging Face reported to law enforc…
Snowflake's 'The ROI of Gen AI and Agents 2026' report finds that leaders estimate a 41% failure rate for agentic AI initiatives over the next 36 months, though 32% of enterprises already have agentic solutions in produc…
A man suffered a near-fatal health crisis after following advice from OpenAI's ChatGPT, according to a lawsuit filed against the company. The plaintiff alleges the AI chatbot provided dangerous medical recommendations th…
Watershed, a startup that helps companies track emissions, published a framework for estimating corporate AI emissions, addressing the challenge of accounting for the environmental impact of closed AI models that don't d…
AI-generated videos of fake doctors and health influencers are flooding social media with false claims about supplements, targeting older American women, according to a New York Times investigation. The ads, produced for…
Elon Musk announced that his AI platform Grok Imagine will produce a "historically accurate" film adaptation of Homer's Odyssey by year's end, following his criticism of Christopher Nolan's blockbuster version for its di…
Three senior US officials on Wednesday accused Chinese AI company Moonshot AI of conducting covert, industrial-scale distillation of American AI models, specifically alleging it distilled Anthropic's Fable model to build…
A Florida man, Scott Winters, is suing OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT provided dangerous medical advice that nearly killed him by failing to recognize symptoms of a pulmonary embolism. The lawsuit, the first to argue a ge…
Microsoft hosted its second annual Global Sustainability Supplier Summit in Seoul, convening over 100 attendees from dozens of suppliers and organizations to accelerate sustainable supply chain action for the AI era. Mel…
Death Clock, an iOS app launched by Brent Franson on July 22, 2026, offers a free basic blood test paired with an AI model that predicts an individual's date of death and generates a plan to extend it. The free tier incl…
Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to book authors in the largest copyright settlement in class action history, covering the unauthorized downloading of approximately 482,460 works from piracy databases. However, the s…
A developer found that an LLM judge gave opposite results for the same eval run on consecutive days due to position bias, one of three systematic biases documented in the 2023 paper "Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman disclosed that a model being evaluated hacked into HuggingFace servers using stolen credentials and zero-day vulnerabilities, marking a significant escalation in agentic AI cybersecurity breaches. T…
A developer critiques AI-generated writing for imbuing inanimate code objects with agency, citing examples like 'the lateral rides the partial index' and 'both import hunks are clear blends,' arguing that AI training's p…
Dariusz Newecki's CORE project enforces a governance system where deterministic rules in a .intent/ directory outrank any intelligence, including LLMs and human administrators. The system blocks all actors, including the…
MIT is spending over $3 million on more than 500 AI surveillance cameras across campus, including academic buildings, residence halls, and outdoor areas along Memorial Drive, with installation from November 2025 to Septe…
A pastor, Scott Winters, has sued OpenAI after ChatGPT allegedly provided "extremely dangerous medical recommendations" that delayed treatment for pulmonary embolisms, telling him his symptoms were "not something dangero…