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Google filed a civil lawsuit against Chinese cybercrime operation Outsider Enterprise, alleging the group used Gemini and other AI tools to generate phishing code and deploy scam text messages. The operation sent 2.5 mil…
Mozilla added an AI "kill switch" to Firefox, with only 1% of users disabling the feature entirely and 3% turning off some AI features selectively. The company launched Smart Window in beta, offering three hosted AI back…
Kevin O'Leary is pushing to build a massive data center to meet America's growing need for compute power in the age of AI. The project faces significant opposition and regulatory hurdles, which O'Leary argues must be ove…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, its new best publicly available model, alongside a 319-page system card detailing safety restrictions and performance trade-offs. The model introduces additional safeguards including 30…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO is expected to make him the world’s first trillionaire, but his actions as head of the Department of Government Efficiency directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Musk knowin…
Billionaire Peter Thiel has backed a new AI-powered tribunal called Objection that allows wealthy individuals to challenge news articles they disagree with, with the first case targeting a Hollywood Reporter journalist's…
A survey of nearly 52,000 Americans by Anthropic found that 64% fear job losses from AI and 56% worry about losing their ability to think independently. Daily AI users expressed significantly less concern, yet most respo…
Community opposition groups have blocked or delayed $130 billion in data center projects across 40 states this year, according to Data Center Watch. The 188 organized groups are using environmental reviews, public hearin…
A new PwC report finds that artificial intelligence is driving up U.S. healthcare costs, with one of its most widespread uses being to justify higher medical bills. AI note-taking tools are documenting more specific diag…
U.S., French, and Italian authorities seized the domains CFAKE.com and SOCFAKE.com, which hosted thousands of AI-generated nude images of famous women without their consent, including politicians, royalty, and entertaine…
Only 1% of Firefox users have activated the browser's AI kill switch, which Mozilla added after community demand for control over artificial intelligence features. Mozilla CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo said the feature's value…
Ukrainian drone manufacturer Aero Center revealed that fully autonomous drones killed Russian soldiers during a battlefield test two years ago, marking a potential first in warfare. The drones were preprogrammed to activ…
Craig Brittain, a former Arizona Senate candidate, alleged in a Threads post that an FBI agent confronted him while he was peacefully protesting ICE at Delaney Hall in Newark, and the agent refused to provide his name. B…
Google filed a civil lawsuit against Chinese cybercrime ring Outsider Enterprise, which used Google's Gemini AI to build phishing websites and sent 2.5 million scam texts in two weeks. The operation involved 9,000 fake w…
A giant inflatable caricature of Elon Musk appeared in Times Square on Thursday, one day before SpaceX's record-setting initial public offering, as advocacy group Safe AI Now protested the company's AI platform Grok for …
AOL cofounder and Revolution CEO Steve Case described artificial intelligence as a "huge, huge opportunity" but warned it will likely be a "net negative" for jobs, speaking at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspe…
As backlash against data center development grows nationwide, cities are exploring AI to reduce housing costs by streamlining regulatory processes that add $131,734 to the price of a typical home. Regulatory burdens now …
The Department of Veterans Affairs failed to classify its generative AI chatbots as high-impact use cases, despite clinicians using them for patient documentation, according to a VA Inspector General report. The watchdog…
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned Wednesday that advanced AI models like Anthropic's Mythos "can be used to destroy the financial system" if weaponized by malicious actors. Speakin…
New Microsoft research finds that roughly 70% of skills used in most jobs are expected to change by 2030, with AI literacy appearing in job listings six times more often than a year ago and 66% of leaders saying they wou…