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Personality clashes between Anthropic and the White House led to the shutdown of Anthropic's Claude models, including the Fable and Mythos variants. The dispute centers on jailbreak resistance and the administration's de…
A federal judge ruled that Meta must face a copyright lawsuit from Strike 3 Holdings, which owns adult sites like Blacked.com, for allegedly scraping and torrenting thousands of its porn videos to train AI models. The ju…
Meta's new Applied AI team, created to support its Superintelligence Labs, is suffering from record-low morale amid layoffs, surveillance initiatives, and soul-crushing busywork, with employees describing the environment…
Elon Musk's net worth has crossed the trillion-dollar threshold, sparking debate about the meaning and implications of such extreme wealth. Critics argue that wealth equals power, but the author contends that this power …
Berkeley RDI and over 300 industry experts launched Agents' Last Exam (ALE), an open benchmark that evaluates AI agents on economically valuable professional tasks rather than abstract proxies. The benchmark currently co…
Daniel Cormier's X account posted fake screenshots of Eric Trump asking if UFC fights are rigged, which Eric Trump denied as AI-generated. Cormier later deleted the post and said his account was hacked, calling the image…
Senator Elizabeth Warren is demanding transparency on private equity acquisitions of utility companies, warning that AI data center electricity demand could burden consumers. She flagged specific deals by Blackstone and …
Jordan Fulghum built a private ChatGPT for his family using a ZimaBoard 2 with an external RTX 5060 Ti GPU, running Open WebUI and a local LLM. The system grounds answers in a family vault of documents, offering privacy …
Harvard Business Review reports that frontier AI models have been trained on creators' digital output without permission, sparking economic disputes. The article proposes a market mechanism for future data access compens…
Alpha School, a private K-12 network, uses AI-driven adaptive software to deliver core academics in two hours daily, with students reportedly learning 2.5x faster than peers. The model, backed by tech billionaire Joe Lie…
Anthropic faces a proposed class-action lawsuit in California alleging that its $100 and $200 Claude Max plans deliver far less usage than advertised. Plaintiff Karl Kahn claims the AI company's marketing is fraudulent a…
Microsoft's Candy Crush Saga continues to generate $1 billion in annual revenue with over 150 million monthly active users, 14 years after its launch. The game's success underscores the enduring appeal of human-designed …
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI assistant, faces a consumer lawsuit alleging it oversold subscription usage limits, with the plaintiff claiming the service failed to deliver advertised access. The suit adds to Anth…
Pokémon Go players' voluntary 3D scans trained Niantic Spatial's AI models for GPS-free navigation, which are now being combined with defense contractor Vantor's software to guide military drones when satellite signals a…
A critical analysis argues that most companies do not face winner-take-all dynamics and should not rush AI adoption, as the urgency is often manufactured by investors and influencers. The piece suggests that true AI-nati…
CrankGPT launches a human-powered, fully local and private AI solution that runs entirely on-device, eliminating the need for cloud services and reducing reliance on big tech. The product aims to address privacy concerns…
SpaceX went public on Friday with a target valuation above $1.75 trillion, enriching Elon Musk, but communities near xAI data centers in Memphis are demanding accountability for pollution from natural gas turbines and a …
Anthropic faces user backlash over billing practices for its $200-per-month Claude Max AI plan, with one customer reportedly incurring $50,000 in overage charges in a single month. Users complain of insufficient transpar…
The Atlantic published an essay on June 15, 2026 arguing that surface 'tells' used to identify machine writing are unreliable, drawing an analogy to 19th-century criminologist Cesare Lombroso. The essay recommends lookin…
Forbes Technology Council contributor warns that organizations embedding AI rapidly without governance controls are accumulating 'AI risk debt' across four areas: untracked employee use of consumer AI tools, outdated or …