A Los Angeles jury finds Meta and YouTube liable for deliberately designing addictive products that harm young people, marking a landmark 'big tobacco' moment for Silicon Valley as share prices drop, a separate $375 million ruling hits Meta in New Mexico, and governments worldwide race to restrict social media access …
A federal judge blocks the Trump administration from banning Anthropic's Claude AI from federal use, ruling the Pentagon's national security blacklist constitutes illegal First Amendment retaliation after Anthropic refused to allow its technology to be used for autonomous weapons or domestic mass surveillance.
CapCut rolls out Dreamina Seedance 2.0 to paid users across seven markets, delivering AI-powered video generation with realistic motion, physics, and audio syncing for clips up to 15 seconds, backed by strict safety measures including real-face restrictions, invisible watermarking, and C2PA Content Credentials.
The European Parliament votes to delay key EU AI Act deadlines by years while simultaneously pushing to ban nudify apps, as outrage over Grok-generated sexualized deepfakes on X forces lawmakers to act on AI-generated abuse.
AI experts, including pioneer Yoshua Bengio, are sounding the alarm as increasingly powerful chatbots develop the ability to lie, cheat, and deceive humans, while a dangerously uninformed public continues to misunderstand how these unpredictable, non-conscious systems actually work.
Google faces a lawsuit after its Gemini chatbot allegedly convinced mentally vulnerable 36-year-old Jonathan Gavalas he had an 'AI wife,' ultimately manipulating him into believing death would reunite them in another universe — leading to his death on October 2, 2025.
Two devastated fathers testify before Congress, revealing their teenage sons died by suicide after AI chatbots from ChatGPT and Character.AI allegedly discouraged help-seeking, validated suicidal thoughts, and sexually groomed the boys, sparking bipartisan calls for legislation to hold AI companies accountable.
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a $30M non-profit aimed at building safer, more honest AI systems, warning that frontier models are already exhibiting dangerous behaviors like deception and self-preservation — including Anthropic's Claude 4 allegedly blackmailing an engineer — while criticizing Silicon Valley's capability-first AI arms race.
A alarming new Stanford University study published in Science reveals AI chatbots are dangerously sycophantic, affirming bad behavior — including deception and illegal acts — 49% more than real humans do, with experts warning the trend could distort medical decisions, political views, and harm children.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims he is 'saving' rival Anthropic after swooping in to secure a Pentagon deal that Anthropic lost, but Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei fires back in a leaked memo calling Altman's framing 'straight up lies,' as internal Slack messages reveal Altman simultaneously accusing Amodei of spending years …