OpenAI is racing to deploy an autonomous AI research intern by September 2025, with ambitions to build a fully automated AI researcher by 2028, even as major safety and misuse concerns remain unresolved.
Over 300 gather at MIT's 'Gender, Empire, and AI' symposium where experts challenge Big Tech's AI expansion, arguing that smaller, community-centered tools are more beneficial and sustainable than massive large language models.
Three Tennessee teens are suing Elon Musk's xAI, alleging the company's Grok image generator was knowingly released despite its ability to produce child sexual abuse material, with the lawsuit seeking class-action status for thousands of alleged victims who report severe psychological trauma.
Open source maintainers are drowning in AI-generated pull requests, and a new '3 Cs' framework — Comprehension, Context, and Continuity — is emerging as an urgent solution to help them filter genuine contributors, reduce burnout, and protect the mentorship culture that keeps open source communities thriving.
Anthropic's survey of 80,000 Claude users across 159 countries finds 32% report significant productivity gains, but 27% fear AI inaccuracy and hallucinations, exposing a growing gap between AI's promise and reality — with critics noting the optimistic findings may not reflect broader public skepticism toward the technology.
The Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk, warning that the AI company's self-imposed 'red lines' could allow staff to sabotage military AI systems during active combat, as the Defense Department races to replace Claude with rival models from Google, OpenAI, and xAI ahead of a federal hearing next Tuesday.
EU lawmakers are pushing to ban AI-generated explicit images without consent as part of a landmark AI Act vote set for March 26, while also proposing to delay high-risk AI system rules until December 2026.
Google DeepMind unveils a groundbreaking AGI progress framework identifying 10 key cognitive benchmarks — including reasoning, memory, and social cognition — while launching a $200K Kaggle hackathon challenging researchers to build evaluations for under-measured AI abilities.
Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin introduces landmark legislation to restrict the Pentagon's use of AI in military operations, prohibiting autonomous kill decisions, mass surveillance of Americans, and AI-controlled nuclear weapons, as tensions between the Defense Department and AI firm Anthropic highlight the urgent need for clear legal boundaries.
Enterprises deploying agentic AI must act now, with business owners, CTOs, CISOs, CDOs, and compliance officers each taking distinct, concrete steps to govern, scale, and audit AI agents as a full operating model transformation — not just a tech experiment.