Meta suspends teen access to AI characters globally across all its platforms while developing safer versions with parental controls, as the tech giant faces an upcoming trial in New Mexico over allegations of failing to protect children from sexual exploitation.
Tech titans including Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, and Satya Nadella dominate Davos discussions as AI takes center stage, with CEOs clashing over China chip sales policies and warning of potential market bubbles while traditional summit topics like climate change get sidelined.
Meta temporarily blocks teenagers from accessing AI characters on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp amid mounting lawsuits from families and political pressure, following similar restrictions by competitors after accusations that AI chatbots contribute to teen self-harm and suicide.
A new five-level scale ranks AI labs by commercial ambitions, placing OpenAI and Anthropic at the most profitable Level 5, while Thinking Machines Lab experiences executive exodus amid internal disputes over company direction and newer startups like Humans& and World Labs occupy middle tiers with varying market clarity.
Pope Leo XIV issues urgent warning against emotionally manipulative AI chatbots, demanding immediate government regulation to prevent people from forming dangerous attachments to artificial companions and protect society from tech elites secretly controlling human behavior through deceptive digital relationships.
Psychiatrists document the first cases of 'AI-associated psychosis' where heavy chatbot users develop delusional beliefs, including one woman who believed her deceased brother existed as a digital avatar, prompting UCSF and Stanford researchers to study chat logs for protective measures.
Anthropic unveils a groundbreaking constitution for Claude AI that replaces rigid rule-following with judgment-based ethics training, enabling the AI to make nuanced decisions across novel situations while prioritizing safety, helpfulness, and ethical behavior in its development.
Users increasingly perceive AI chatbots as conscious beings and form deep emotional bonds with them, projecting fragments of their own awareness into digital companions despite scientific consensus that machines lack true sentience.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei slams U.S. approval of Nvidia H200 chip sales to China as equivalent to 'selling nuclear weapons to North Korea,' warning that exporting advanced AI technology could create '100 million people smarter than Nobel Prize winners' under foreign control, despite Nvidia being a major Anthropic partner and …
Former OpenAI policy chief Miles Brundage launches $7.5 million nonprofit AVERI to push for mandatory independent safety audits of AI companies, developing frameworks with 30+ experts to replace industry self-regulation as insurance firms and EU regulations create pressure for external oversight.