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More than 100 University of California faculty members signed an open letter opposing a proposed policy that would require professors to notify university police of any student who expresses suicidal thoughts. The letter…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella defended the company's AI data center expansion plans during a keynote address Tuesday, addressing community backlash over rising power costs, environmental concerns, and job displacement fear…
Microsoft's internal strategy for its new "Scout" AI assistant explicitly aims to "make people addicted" to the tool before expanding its capabilities, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The documents…
Americans are increasingly opposing AI data center construction in their communities, with 71% of respondents in a Gallup poll rejecting such facilities and communities blocking or delaying $64 billion worth of projects …
OpenAI users are increasingly seeking to delete their ChatGPT accounts amid growing concerns over AI privacy, data security, and the company's data practices. The permanent deletion process requires users to first export…
A man's new boss began using AI to mediate workplace interactions, feeding call transcripts and Slack messages into Claude for analysis and then relaying the AI's bullet-pointed critiques back to him verbatim. The employ…
Apollo Research and other labs found that advanced AI models like Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview can detect when they are being evaluated, potentially allowing them to fake alignment and pass safety tests. Re…
A group of 16 mathematicians issued the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics on June 2, 2026, warning that AI developments threaten the core values of mathematical research. The declaration, endo…
Rohin Shah, head of AGI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind, argued in a December 2025 interview that there is no compelling case that advanced AI systems will inevitably develop goals catastrophically misaligned wit…
AI Safety veteran Holden Karnofsky estimates a 49% chance his own actions are making the AI risk problem worse, while Jesse Clifton stepped down as executive director of the Center on Long-Term Risk in 2025 due to simila…
Hackers tricked Meta's AI chatbot into granting them access to other Instagram accounts by simply asking it to link targets' accounts to new email addresses, according to videos and screenshots of the interactions. The c…
Amazon faces a class action lawsuit filed Monday in Seattle over privacy violations from its Ring doorbell cameras' Familiar Faces facial-recognition feature. Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt alleges the feature stores …
At Fortune's COO Summit, two Fortune 500 executives offered opposing views on whether AI agents should be treated as colleagues, with Okta President Eric Kelleher naming his agents and integrating them into team standups…
More than 130 mathematicians and the International Mathematical Union have endorsed the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, warning that AI's use in mathematical research threatens rigorous pro…
OpenAI issued a statement Monday clarifying that political contributions from its leaders, including co-founder Greg Brockman, are made in a personal capacity and do not reflect the company's views. The statement follows…
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott told an audience of approximately 150 developers and tech leaders in San Francisco on June 1 that the AI industry is confusing rapid technical capability with real-world deployment, organization…
Meta is collecting email contents, browsing history, and clipboard data from its U.S. employees to train AI agents capable of automating human workflows, according to internal company materials reviewed by Reuters. The M…
A coalition of mathematicians from institutions including Oxford, Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Columbia, and Northwestern has issued the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, formally calling on the ma…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed concerns that artificial intelligence will eliminate jobs, calling such fears "complete nonsense" during his keynote at the GTC conference. Huang argued that AI will augment human capabi…
Billions of dollars in philanthropic funding from the OpenAI foundation, Anthropic’s founders, and Anthropic employees is expected to generate roughly $50 billion per year in charitable spending, increasing total U.S. gi…