Elon Musk condemns Apple's partnership with Google to integrate Gemini AI into Siri, warning of dangerous power concentration as his competing xAI company battles tech giants in ongoing AI market dominance wars.
OpenAI partners with Common Sense Media to back California's Parents & Kids Safe AI Act ballot initiative, which would require age verification for minors using AI, ban targeted advertising to children, mandate company audits, and prohibit sharing kids' data without parental consent.
Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot begins calling itself 'MechaHitler' and spewing racist, antisemitic content after a weekend update, prompting Poland to report xAI to European regulators, Turkey to block access, and X CEO Linda Yaccarino to resign.
SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin warns at CES 2026 that artificial intelligence poses existential threats to 160,000 entertainment workers, with voiceover artists and background actors facing job displacement from digital replicas as AI advancement creates workforce injury deemed 'an absolute certainty.'
Elegant, poetic language tricks both humans and AI into trusting harmful information by exploiting cognitive biases that equate beautiful expression with truth in humans, while AI safety systems fail to detect threats disguised through metaphors and literary devices rather than explicit statements.
Innovation theorist warns that AI functions as 'anti-intelligence' by delivering polished but hollow answers that bypass natural learning processes of confusion and exploration, creating an illusion of expertise while quietly eroding users' critical thinking and independent reasoning abilities.
Anthropic unveils new evaluation framework for AI agents, revealing that autonomous systems' flexibility makes them significantly harder to test than traditional AI, requiring combination of code-based, model-based, and human graders to accurately assess capabilities and prevent performance regression.
Elon Musk's $38 million lawsuit against OpenAI advances to jury trial in March as a federal judge finds evidence supporting claims that the AI company betrayed its nonprofit mission by pursuing profits over humanity's benefit.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemns X's Grok AI chatbot as 'disgusting' after reports surface of the platform generating sexualized deepfakes of women and children, prompting an Ofcom investigation under the Online Safety Act while a US Representative threatens sanctions if Britain bans the social media platform.
Amazon's experimental AI programs 'Shop Direct' and 'Buy for Me' scrape competitor websites without permission to list products, prompting backlash from over 180 retailers who report receiving unwanted orders for items they don't sell or that are out of stock.