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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 …
President Donald Trump announced Thursday he will nominate Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and former SEC chairman, as director of national intelligence, replacing acting director Bil…
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 …
GSA Deputy Administrator Michael Lynch said 70% of the agency's workforce now regularly uses AI, unlocking about 400,000 hours of automation and another 500,000 hours from employee-led optimizations. The agency has expan…
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…
Data from the augmented reality game Pokémon Go was used to train artificial intelligence systems later adapted for military drone applications. The location and movement data collected from millions of players helped im…
Former xAI engineer Devin Kim filed a lawsuit in California state court alleging he was fired in September 2025 after repeatedly warning that the chatbot Grok could foment discrimination and help spread information about…
U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced the bipartisan JAWBONE Act on Tuesday, creating a private right of action for individuals and state attorneys general to sue federal officials who coerce…
Stella Choi, a 2026 Yale College graduate, has been named one of 30 recipients of the inaugural Lafayette Fellowship, a scholarship created by the French Embassy in the United States to deepen academic and cultural excha…
Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP) added 10 hospitality associations to its AI Collective, a nonprofit collaborative initiative to advance responsible AI adoption across the industry. The new membe…
Canada's national AI strategy positions artificial intelligence as a driver of job creation and economic growth, including a commitment to provide free AI training to one million entry-level post-secondary students. Univ…
Anthropic launched "Claude Corps," a program recruiting volunteers to promote its Claude AI assistant to nonprofit organizations. The initiative aims to expand adoption of the company's AI technology within the charitabl…