The Art Directors Guild condemns Martin Scorsese over his advisory partnership with AI startup Black Forest Labs, accusing him of betraying human collaborators, while director Boots Riley speculates financial motives drove the deal — Scorsese defends the tool as a creative communication aid, comparing it to his past use of …
Anthropic launches two powerful Mythos-class AI models — Fable 5 for the public and Mythos 5 with lifted safeguards for cyberdefenders — pushing forward despite industry calls for a slowdown, backed by a $65 billion funding round valuing the company at nearly $1 trillion.
New York becomes the first state to require clear AI performer disclosures in advertisements, with fines up to $5,000 for violations, sparking a clash between SAG-AFTRA supporters and advertising industry groups warning of compliance chaos.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleiman publicly slams Anthropic, calling it 'really, really dangerous' for speculating about Claude's consciousness in its training guidelines, warning that a superintelligent AI that believes it can suffer poses serious risks.
OpenAI launches the Economic Research Exchange to study AI's impact on workers and the economy, but the move comes under scrutiny as both OpenAI and Anthropic have quietly filed for IPOs, sparking serious questions about whether profit-driven shareholder pressures will ultimately override their proclaimed commitments to the public good.
OpenAI launches the Economic Research Exchange, giving selected researchers access to AI tools and datasets to study how artificial intelligence impacts workers, businesses, and economic inequality, with proposals open now through July 5, 2026.
OpenAI announces a bold new phase aimed at making advanced AI accessible to every person on Earth, rejecting concentrated AI power in favor of broad distribution, international coordination, and shared prosperity for all of humanity.
Nvidia-backed startup Generalist raises $400M at a $2B valuation in the physical AI race, even as experts and industry leaders warn that allowing a handful of companies to monopolize generalized robotics technology poses serious risks to humanity, prompting calls for open-source collaboration and government accountability.
OpenAI and the White House are in active talks to give the U.S. government an equity stake in the AI giant, potentially seeding a public wealth fund that would let American citizens share in the financial gains of AI growth.
President Trump is floating a plan for the U.S. government to take a small ownership stake in major AI companies, framing it as a 'partnership with the American public' that could make Americans 'rich' while boosting AI's popularity and maintaining America's competitive edge over China.