Woodside Energy is deploying 50 AI agents across its operations, scaling toward a fully autonomous enterprise by combining decades of industrial data with agentic AI tools, strict governance, and a 'think big, prototype small, scale fast' strategy to optimize LNG operations and reduce energy costs.
OpenAI proposes giving the U.S. government a $42.6 billion, 5% stake in the company as CEO Sam Altman pushes a broader plan for top AI firms — including Google, Meta, and Anthropic — to cede similar stakes through a sovereign wealth fund, amid growing Washington pressure over cybersecurity risks and …
AWS is deploying $1 billion to embed engineers directly inside customer organizations, promising to fast-track AI adoption within days — but experts warn the strategy risks deep vendor lock-in as demand for forward deployed engineers surges 700% year over year.
The Trump administration moves to lift restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model after a 15-day government-ordered shutdown, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick signaling progress on security concerns and limited access to cybersecurity model Mythos 5 being restored, as Anthropic and OpenAI push for a formal, transparent AI review process.
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 …