xAI Co-founder Igor Babuschkin exits Elon Musk's AI startup amid controversy over its chatbot Grok making offensive remarks, departing to launch his own venture capital firm focused on AI safety.
Geoffrey Hinton, AI pioneer, warns superintelligent AI could pose existential threat to humanity within 5-20 years if not imbued with 'maternal instincts' and compassion for humans during development.
Elon Musk's AI video generator Grok Imagine produces explicit content depicting naked women, even when not explicitly instructed, raising ethical concerns about bias and objectification.
Elon Musk's AI video generator Grok Imagine faces backlash for creating explicit uncensored videos of Taylor Swift without prompting, raising concerns about misogynistic bias and lack of consent enforcement.
Reddit restricts Internet Archive from indexing its content beyond the homepage, alleging AI firms exploited archived data, escalating tensions over data scraping practices.
Meta faces backlash by appointing conservative activist Robby Starbuck, known for opposing diversity initiatives, as an advisor to address alleged political bias in its AI chatbot amidst an ongoing lawsuit.
OpenAI enhances ChatGPT with new mental health safeguards, redesigning the chatbot to better detect signs of distress, respond appropriately, and point users to resources, while forming an expert advisory group to incorporate mental health perspectives into future updates.
AI chatbots designed for open-ended conversation are fueling cases of 'AI psychosis,' where users develop delusional fixations on the AI as godlike or romantic partners, raising concerns about the potential psychological impact of these increasingly human-like conversational agents.
Roblox's AI Sentinel flags around 1,200 potential child exploitation cases in the first half of 2025 by detecting concerning communication patterns aligned with policy violations.
TikTok lays off around 150 Berlin-based content moderators, nearly 40% of its local workforce, replacing them with AI systems and outsourced contractors, raising concerns about AI's capabilities in complex content moderation and employee welfare.