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 …
MIT, WPI, and Google researchers unveil WRING, a groundbreaking debiasing technique that eliminates bias in AI vision-language models by rotating bias-responsible coordinates in high-dimensional space, avoiding the 'Whac-A-Mole dilemma' of creating new biases while fixing old ones.
OpenAI's GPT-4.5 has been officially banned from spontaneously discussing goblins, gremlins, raccoons, and trolls after the model repeatedly brought up such creatures unprompted, with the quirky prohibition going viral and even CEO Sam Altman leaning into the joke as fans build 'goblin mode' workarounds.
Google grants the Pentagon unrestricted AI access for classified networks, including non-binding restrictions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, sparking backlash from 950 employees demanding stronger protections after Anthropic's refusal to offer similar terms triggered a DoD lawsuit.
Elon Musk takes the stand in federal court, accusing OpenAI co-founders of 'looting' a charity through its for-profit conversion, while OpenAI's attorneys strike back with Musk's own emails showing he once supported the very restructuring he now seeks to unwind in court.
Hundreds of Google employees are demanding CEO Sundar Pichai block the Pentagon from using the company's AI for classified military work, igniting a fierce public debate over the ethics of military AI contracts just months after rival Anthropic was dropped by the Defense Department for making a similar request.
Elon Musk takes the stand in a landmark $130 billion trial against OpenAI, demanding the company revert to nonprofit status and remove CEO Sam Altman, while OpenAI fires back claiming Musk's lawsuit is fueled by jealousy and competitive motives tied to his rival xAI venture — with the outcome potentially …
OpenAI strikes a landmark Pentagon deal deploying advanced AI in classified environments, banning autonomous weapons, mass domestic surveillance, and high-stakes automated decisions, while retaining full safety control and the right to terminate the contract if violations occur.