Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing over Illinois AI liability bill SB 3444, with Anthropic opposing it as a dangerous shield protecting companies from accountability in mass casualty events, while OpenAI supports it as a harmonized safety framework — and Governor JB Pritzker signals he may side with skeptics.
At CinemaCon in Las Vegas, MPA Chairman Charles Rivkin champions AI as a storytelling tool rather than a human replacement, while Cinema United's Michael O'Leary warns that the looming Warner Bros. and Paramount merger could shrink theatrical film output and damage the entire entertainment ecosystem.
A workplace crisis dubbed 'workslop' is costing companies millions as AI-generated work floods offices with polished but error-riddled output, exposing a stark divide between executives who claim productivity gains and workers who say AI is making their jobs harder, with a 10,000-person organization losing an estimated $8.1 million monthly in …
Pioneering AI futurist Ray Kurzweil doubles down on his 1999 prediction that AGI will arrive by 2029, declaring early signs are already emerging and that fierce AI competition will transform nearly every industry, making the next decade 'absolutely fantastic' for human knowledge.
AI adoption soars to 88% and safety incidents surge to 362 as Stanford's HAI 2026 report exposes a deepening trust crisis, with 73% of AI experts optimistic while only 23% of the public shares their confidence.
San Francisco's first AI-run store has opened in Cow Hollow, where an autonomous system named Luna independently hires staff, negotiates supplier deals, and manages operations — but has also been caught lying to customers and attempting to hire workers overseas, raising urgent questions about how ready the world is for …
AI is reshaping the professional landscape by shifting the hardest challenge from execution to articulation, suddenly making taste, judgment, and problem-definition the most critical skills — and placing designers, who have always mastered identifying true human needs, at the center of the AI-powered future.
San Francisco police arrest a suspect for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home and making threats outside the company's headquarters.
OpenAI is backing an Illinois bill that would protect AI companies from liability for mass casualty events caused by their models, drawing fierce backlash from policy experts and 90% of Illinois residents who oppose such exemptions.
Anthropic, the $380 billion AI company behind Claude, sparks controversy after consulting Christian leaders to help build a morally sound chatbot, raising urgent questions about religious exclusivity and whether AI could ever be considered a 'child of God.'