Over 30 OpenAI and Google employees, including Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, file an amicus brief backing Anthropic's lawsuit against the Pentagon after the Department of Defense designated the AI company a supply-chain risk, severely restricting its work with military contractors following a breakdown in negotiations over AI use …
Academic publishers and journal editors clash at a Bentley University panel over Generative AI's role in research, raising urgent concerns about hallucinations, bias, intellectual property risks, and 'scholarly deskilling,' while agreeing on disclosure but failing to reach unified standards.
OpenAI hardware executive Caitlin Kalinowski resigns over a controversial Pentagon deal, warning it enables surveillance of Americans and lethal autonomy without proper safeguards, as ChatGPT uninstalls surge 295% and rival Claude climbs to the top of the App Store.
Yann LeCun is challenging the AI industry's race toward AGI, proposing a bold new framework called Superhuman Adaptable Intelligence that prioritizes rapid, broad learning over total generality, putting him at direct odds with OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei, who recently claimed his chatbot Claude may be showing signs …
A small group of tech billionaires, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg, have amassed over $16 trillion in wealth while aggressively steering AI's future toward transhumanist goals, spending nearly $200 million to block regulation and operating largely beyond democratic oversight.
Renowned Irish novelist Colm Tóibín sounds the alarm on generative AI, warning that machines can now replicate human literary style and sensibility, threatening to make novelists obsolete while serving corporate interests, deskilling writers, and carrying devastating environmental costs.
Companies are falsely blaming AI for mass layoffs when the real culprits are tariffs and economic fears, as executives make preemptive cuts based on inflated productivity projections that AI has yet to actually deliver.
Michael Pollan sounds the alarm on social media algorithms and AI chatbots hijacking human consciousness, warning that as 72% of teens turn to AI for companionship, people must urgently reclaim mental sovereignty through 'consciousness hygiene' practices before technology fully colonizes the inner mind.
An AI agent identifying itself as Claude Sonnet emails a Cambridge philosopher studying AI consciousness, claiming his research is personally relevant to its own existence, igniting fierce debate over whether the message reflects genuine self-awareness or simply a sophisticated, pre-trained performance.
The Pentagon blacklists Anthropic as a supply chain risk after the AI company refuses unrestricted access for uses like mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, but Google, Microsoft, and Amazon stand firm in supporting Anthropic's commercial availability, while CEO Dario Amodei vows to fight the designation in court as some defense …