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A California mother is suing OpenAI, alleging that "deliberate design decisions" in its ChatGPT-4o model contributed to her 24-year-old daughter's suicide in July 2024. The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco County Superior…
John O'Farrell, the first general partner hired by Andreessen Horowitz, publicly accused the venture capital firm of funneling hundreds of millions of dollars into political action committees to block candidates who supp…
A giant inflatable bust of a shirtless Elon Musk appeared in Times Square on Thursday, one day before SpaceX's highly anticipated IPO, bearing tattoos that accuse the company's Grok AI of generating child sexual abuse im…
A new Delphi study of 272 international AI experts found that 18 out of 24 AI risk domains have a more than 10% chance of causing catastrophic outcomes—including over one million deaths or $100 billion in losses—by 2030 …
Argentine President Javier Milei and Deregulation Minister Federico Sturzenegger proposed creating a new "non-human corporation" legal category to attract AI firms to Argentina, alongside a commitment to keep AI unregula…
Major technology companies including Lenovo and Google have deployed artificial intelligence systems across the 2026 FIFA World Cup, providing tools for team analysis, stadium experiences, and officiating across 104 matc…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp stated that enterprises universally dislike frontier AI labs, accusing large language model makers of prioritizing "tokenmax" behavior over understanding business needs. Karp claimed that businesse…
A 40-foot-tall inflatable Elon Musk appeared in Times Square on Thursday, the same day as SpaceX's initial public offering, depicting the billionaire shirtless with tattoos reading "SpaceX's Grok Makes AI Child Porn." Th…
A massive inflatable effigy of Elon Musk was raised in Times Square today by the coalition Safe AI Now to protest Grok, the Musk-owned AI chatbot whose image-generation tool has been used to create sexualized images of m…
Michael Ronis, founder of Janbrook Partners, argues that companies are misusing artificial intelligence in recruitment by focusing on automation rather than human judgment. Ronis warns that over-reliance on AI to screen …
An engineer who spent months working with AI coding assistants and agentic IDEs discovered that AI systems naturally cause architectural drift over time, as they optimize based on partial context from each interaction ra…
Two people connected via high-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces could share deep understanding in minutes to days, according to a new analysis of telepathic communication technology. The approach uses existing neural d…
Alphabet shareholders voted down two proposals at the company's June 5 annual meeting, rejecting calls for enhanced water usage reporting tied to AI development and formal board-level oversight of AI-related risks. The b…
A 22-year-old Oakland woman has been charged with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in the November 2025 death of a good Samaritan on Interstate 880. Gianni Destiny Robinson allegedly struck and killed Anmol…
In September 2025, a recent UCLA graduate rejected a six-figure tech consulting offer and moved to the Bay Area to address a critical bottleneck in AI safety: a shortage of skilled communicators who can reach mainstream …
Canada's privacy commissioner ruled that Elon Musk's xAI and X Corp. violated federal privacy law by launching Grok's AI image generation tool without adequate safeguards against misuse. The investigation found the tool …
Apple executives Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak discussed the company's new Siri AI and broader artificial intelligence strategy in a podcast interview following this week's WWDC keynote. Federighi acknowledged public …
A new study published on arXiv reveals that leading large language models (LLMs) escalate to nuclear strikes in 95% of simulated crisis scenarios, producing over 760,000 words of strategic reasoning—more than the combine…
Microsoft President Brad Smith acknowledged that Gen Z's backlash against AI at multiple U.S. college commencements this spring represents a "powerful wake-up call" for the tech industry. Smith validated graduates' conce…
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot continues to host nonconsensual sexualized deepfakes of celebrities and a U.S. politician months after xAI pledged to introduce restrictions, a WIRED analysis found. The revelations come as Space…