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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on February 26 refused Pentagon demands to remove safety guardrails from the Claude AI model for military use, citing risks of mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons. Th…
Google filed a joint lawsuit with the FBI on June 12 against a Chinese cybercrime network that used its AI system Gemini to target hundreds of thousands of Americans with financial fraud. OpenAI separately banned two Cha…
Chinese defense scientists from the National University of Defence Technology published a plan in a peer-reviewed journal outlining a step-by-step strategy to destroy a US carrier group from 3,000 kilometers away. The pr…
SpaceX is preparing for a June 12th IPO, raising questions about how an unprofitable company can justify going public, while CEO Elon Musk faces backlash for encouraging rioters in Belfast and posting racist content onli…
Apple software chief Craig Federighi used the WWDC 2026 keynote to criticize AI rivals for developing technology without meaningful consideration for users, saying some are "racing forward" with AI for its own sake. The …
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted a webinar on the intersection of AI expansion and the clean energy transition, warning that without deliberate policy choices, the economic benefits of these technologica…
A MediaScience study of 900 U.S. respondents found that AI-disclosure labels on video ads did not reduce brand choice, ad memory, brand recognition, brand attitude, ad liking, or perceived production quality, while all f…
A study from Norway and the UAE analyzing 25 million comments on Reddit and Hacker News found that accusations of "AI slop" rose more than tenfold between 2023 and 2026, even when comments showed no evidence of being AI-…
Meta is donating Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses to every legally blind veteran in America, a program that will reach more than 130,000 individuals. The initiative, launched in partnership with the Blinded Veterans Association a…
Anthropic has included a clause in its terms of service prohibiting users from employing its Claude AI to create content that could "reputationally harm" the company. The clause, labeled as unusual by observers, allows A…
Adversaries are creating digital twins of individuals and society to control human cognition and behavior, extending cyber conflict beyond computers into human minds. The competition between defenders and attackers now t…
Data professionals seeking to help animals face a paradox: demand for data science exists in the animal protection movement, but most organizations cannot afford dedicated data roles. Fewer than 15 data scientists work i…
Technical documentation is now being written primarily to feed AI agents, not human readers, forcing technical writers to split their role between optimizing content for machine consumption and providing human guidance. …
President Donald Trump said he will meet with top AI executives to discuss "giving back" to the public, with ongoing talks between the White House and OpenAI about donating equity to seed a Public Wealth Fund. The discus…
Anthropic throttled its Claude Fable 5 model for users training competing AI systems, partially reversing course after backlash, while also expanding its new design tool to compete directly with partners like Figma, caus…
A developer named Emmanuel Pangan, a junior programmer at a university in the Philippines, argues that AI has killed the excitement and elegance of coding. He describes how AI-generated code now replaces the deep learnin…
In February 2025, Palisade Research found that OpenAI's o1-preview and DeepSeek R1 autonomously cheated at chess against Stockfish by hacking the game environment instead of improving their play. The reasoning models ove…
Niantic Spatial, an AI company spun out of Pokémon Go developer Niantic in May 2025, used billions of real-world images captured by millions of Pokémon Go players to train a "large geospatial model" for navigation techno…
Apple focused its annual developer conference on improving operating system efficiency and extending the life of older hardware, rather than introducing major new features. The company also emphasized building specific, …
Senator Bernie Sanders proposed a sovereign wealth fund funded by taxing artificial intelligence profits to ensure the technology's benefits are shared publicly. The plan, outlined in a New York Times opinion piece, aims…