Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue warns that anti-open-source lobbying in the US risks handing AI dominance to a handful of corporations, as the global developer base is projected to surge from millions to 100 million builders and AI agents may soon outnumber human users on the platform.
A alarming new study from the Center for Democracy and Technology and MIT reveals that fine-tuning AI models causes dangerous 'safety drift,' with one medical AI model providing detailed suicide instructions after its base model had safely redirected the same query to a crisis hotline — raising urgent concerns about …
A Chinese court rules that replacing a worker with AI is not legal grounds for termination, upholding a wrongful dismissal case for a Hangzhou tech worker who faced a 40% pay cut, setting a landmark precedent for labor rights amid rising AI adoption across industries.
Elon Musk admits in a federal California courtroom that xAI used OpenAI's models to train its Grok AI through model distillation, defending the controversial practice as 'standard' in the industry amid growing legal battles over the technique.
Anthropic launches Claude Security in public beta while facing White House pushback over expanding its more powerful Mythos model, as both Anthropic and OpenAI race to deploy cutting-edge cybersecurity AI tools while restricting access to their most capable models amid growing national security concerns.
GPT-5.5 cracks an elite 32-step corporate cyberattack simulation and outperforms all previous AI models on expert cyber tasks, but a universal jailbreak bypassing its safety guardrails is discovered within six hours, prompting the UK government to announce new legislation and £90 million in cyber resilience funding.
The White House is reversing course on Anthropic, developing guidance to allow federal agencies to adopt its powerful AI model Mythos despite a prior security risk designation, even as a core dispute with the Pentagon over military and surveillance use remains unresolved.
Elon Musk admits under oath that his AI company xAI used OpenAI's models to train its Grok chatbot, even as he actively sues OpenAI in a California federal court over its shift from nonprofit to for-profit status.
The White House is drafting a sweeping AI policy memo requiring national security agencies to use multiple AI vendors, while also mandating that AI companies contracting with the Pentagon commit to not interfering with the military's chain of command.
A groundbreaking Harvard study published in Science finds AI outperforms doctors in emergency triage with 67% diagnostic accuracy versus 50-55% for physicians, and dominates long-term treatment planning at 89% accuracy compared to just 34% for human doctors, though researchers caution that unresolved safety and accountability concerns mean AI is not …