A new Gallup poll reveals Gen Z excitement about AI has plummeted 14 points to just 22%, as anxiety and anger surge to 42% and 31% respectively, even as career pressure mounts with 60% of enterprises reportedly planning to lay off employees who refuse to use the technology.
At the HumanX Summit in San Francisco, AI leaders are raising urgent alarms over skyrocketing compute costs forcing startups to raise up to $100 million for basic resources, growing security risks from unregulated AI agents, and widespread pushback against overhyped productivity claims tied to Andrej Karpathy's viral term 'AI psychosis.'
Gen Z's excitement about AI has plummeted 14% since 2025, with anger rising and nearly half of working Gen Zers now believing AI's workforce risks outweigh its benefits, even as most acknowledge the technology will define their futures.
A federal appeals court upholds the Pentagon's blacklisting of AI company Anthropic, keeping it barred from defense contracts after negotiations collapsed over the DOD's demand for unrestricted model access and Anthropic's refusal to allow its Claude AI in autonomous weapons or domestic mass surveillance systems.
X is rolling out Grok-powered auto-translation globally and an AI photo editor on iOS with natural language editing capabilities, but consent concerns loom as it remains unclear whether safeguards will prevent sexualized edits of others' images.
OpenAI launches a Child Safety Blueprint in partnership with child protection organizations, as AI-generated child sexual abuse cases surge over 8,000 in early 2025, outlining urgent steps to strengthen detection, legislation, and built-in AI safeguards against exploitation.
A shocking new survey of 2,400 C-suite leaders reveals 60% of companies plan to fire AI-resistant employees while creating an 'AI elite' class, even as only 29% report significant gains from generative AI — raising urgent questions about whether mass layoffs are a desperate financial shortcut rather than a genuine …
Anthropic deploys Claude Mythos Preview, a powerful AI model deemed too dangerous for public release, in a $100M cross-industry initiative called Project Glasswing, partnering with AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and CrowdStrike to identify and fix critical software vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them.
OpenAI is calling on California and Delaware attorneys general to investigate Elon Musk for alleged anti-competitive behavior, claiming he is coordinating with Meta's Mark Zuckerberg to sabotage the company ahead of an April 27 trial, while potentially benefiting his own xAI platform and Grok AI product.
California becomes the first state to approve an AI app to prescribe psychiatric medications without human oversight, as San Francisco startup Legion Health receives clearance from the state's medical board, sparking both excitement and serious concern from experts over algorithm-driven mental health treatment.