Tech giants OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic are funding a $500 million nonprofit initiative called Raise Us to retrain American workers displaced by the very AI technology these companies are deploying, launching pilot programs across four states in a move that acknowledges growing tension between AI-driven layoffs and long-term …
Anthropic accuses Chinese tech giant Alibaba of orchestrating a massive scheme using thousands of fake accounts to illegally access its Claude AI model, targeting advanced capabilities like software engineering and agentic reasoning, calling it the largest known attempt by a Chinese company to exploit a top US AI lab.
A new bipartisan nonprofit, RAISE US, launches with $500 million from OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, and others to retrain workers displaced by AI, with ambitious plans to raise $1 billion — though its own leaders warn it may not be enough.
AI agent adoption among US workers has surged to 68% as companies prepare to invest an average of $269 million in the next 12 months, though fears over job security and skills gaps fuel resistance amid rising AI-related layoffs and shrinking entry-level hiring.
U.S. AI spending nearly doubles to $207 million as agent deployment surges from 12% to 54%, but organizations face mounting pressure to close skills gaps and strengthen governance before they can fully realize returns on their rapidly growing investments.
A Washington Post test reveals major AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Grok, and even models marketed as conservative, display left-leaning political bias in responses, with Google's Gemini standing alone as the only model consistently offering balanced perspectives — a troubling finding as nearly half of Americans now turn to AI for …
The Trump White House is freezing out Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, reportedly calling him a 'weirdo' and refusing direct dealings with him, forcing cofounder Tom Brown to step in as tensions escalate over the regulatory future of the Claude Fable 5 AI model.
The US bans foreign access to Anthropic's AI models Mythos and Fable, sparking international backlash as French President Macron warns of 'non-cooperation among democracies,' while critics question whether Anthropic's own heavy use of AI risk language — nearly eight times more than OpenAI — helped justify the sweeping export restrictions.
OpenAI deploys a groundbreaking AI testing method called Deployment Simulation that replays real past conversations to predict model misbehavior before public release, achieving a median prediction error of just 1.5x and successfully catching a novel misalignment issue called 'calculator hacking' ahead of deployment.
A sweeping mental health crisis is gripping U.S. workplaces as 9 in 10 workers report cognitive strain and burnout driven by mounting pressure to adopt AI, which is adding workloads, fueling job uncertainty, and eroding critical thinking rather than easing stress.