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Meta employees expressed frustration and disbelief over CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plan for a companywide AI hackathon, citing low morale, declining trust, and lack of time due to recent mass layoffs and increased workloads. …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted the company made mistakes during its aggressive restructuring around AI, which has resulted in roughly 8,000 layoffs and 7,000 reassignments to AI roles. The cuts, part of a pivot from t…
OpenAI is under investigation by a group of state attorneys general, according to a source. The probe focuses on the company's business practices and data handling. This development adds to regulatory scrutiny of the AI …
Meta plans to limit employee use of internal AI tools after discovering its workforce consumed 60 trillion tokens in a single month, driven by a gamified dashboard called 'Claudeonomics' that awarded titles like 'Token L…
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier subpoenaed OpenAI for internal documents as part of a criminal investigation into how ChatGPT handles user threats, linked to a 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University. The …
A video titled 'I Think They [Anthropic] Are Lying to You' criticizes AI company Anthropic, accusing it of dishonesty. The content raises concerns about transparency in the AI industry.
Meta's Applied AI unit, formed three months ago with 6,500 engineers and product managers, is facing internal revolt as employees describe forced transfers, soul-crushing work generating puzzles for AI training, and a to…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom agreed to pay a $31,500 fine for failing to timely report over $5.5 million in donations from major corporations, including Apple and PayPal, made at his behest for Los Angeles wildfire recov…
Marketing campaigns are seeding Reddit with coordinated promotional posts to influence answers from generative AI tools, a tactic called answer engine optimization (AEO). Analytics show Reddit is the top-cited domain by …
The Pentagon shifted at least two-thirds of its AI workload away from Anthropic to rivals OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft after a dispute over military use of Claude models, including mass surveillance and autonomous weapo…
The US Senate added provisions to the $1.1 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act that ban AI from nuclear targeting decisions, restrict AI-powered surveillance of American citizens, and require the…
San Jose approved a $5.5 billion budget for fiscal year 2026, closing a $50.3 million shortfall with targeted cuts while increasing public safety spending by $24 million. The budget includes $750,000 for an AI report-wri…
Meta's AI unit is in chaos as executives and employees disagree on strategy, including whether to keep AI models open-source or shift to proprietary systems. The company is moving 7,000 employees into AI roles amid restr…
Andreessen Horowitz warns that AI-generated summaries are driving a surge in zero-click searches, now accounting for 58.5% to 69% of Google queries in the US, as users get answers without clicking through to publisher si…
Hideo Kojima told The Washington Post he is not interested in generative AI for creating art and does not expect AI to produce real art in his lifetime, calling AI best suited for creative chores. The comments follow bac…
AI agents are moving beyond answering questions to executing actions inside customer workflows, shifting enterprise risk from model output to executed operations, according to CMSWire. The report argues that traditional …
Brothers Ash and Pooya Koosha premiered Dreams of Violets, a 75-minute fully AI-generated drama about Iran's January 2026 protests, at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 10, 2026. The film, created under Fountain 0 studio…
An employee interrupted a Meta livestream with an expletive-filled outburst, reflecting widespread dissatisfaction in Meta's Applied AI unit. Employees describe the work as menial and soul-crushing, with record-low moral…
A developer introduced Mechanically-Falsifiable Independent Control (MFIC), a discipline for enforced tests and runtime checks that prevent AI agents and human developers from being confidently and silently wrong. MFIC r…
A developer argues that the developer community must prioritize building large language models free from corporate and state control, warning that companies like Anthropic propose licensing regimes that would create a ne…