Coverage of model development, deployment policy, infrastructure economics, and the regulatory fights that will decide who profits and who pays.
The U.S. and China agreed at the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing to establish a protocol on AI safety best practices, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent saying the U.S. can engage China on the technology "because we are in the lead."
Sara Montes de Oca · 174 DAYS AGO
Trial testimony and discovery from Musk v. Altman reveal that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella feared as early as April 2022 that OpenAI could displace Microsoft the way Microsoft once displaced IBM, shaping a partnership now worth over $100 billion.
Sara Montes de Oca · 174 DAYS AGO
Amazon is retiring its Rufus chatbot and replacing it with Alexa for Shopping, a new AI commerce tool that merges Rufus and Alexa+ and is embedded directly into Amazon's search results and app.
Sara Montes de Oca · 174 DAYS AGO
General Motors laid off between 500 and 600 employees in IT roles on Monday, citing workforce transformation and cost reduction, with a person familiar with the matter confirming that AI played a role in the decision.
Jay Goldberg · 175 DAYS AGO
Waymo has voluntarily recalled about 3,800 robotaxis to fix a software flaw that allowed some vehicles to drive onto flooded roadways, the latest in a series of safety incidents for the Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company.
Sara Montes de Oca · 175 DAYS AGO
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is set to testify Tuesday in the Elon Musk lawsuit in Oakland federal court, as board chair Bret Taylor wraps his testimony and a House committee presses Altman on potential conflicts of interest.
Sara Montes de Oca · 175 DAYS AGO
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified Monday in the Musk v. Altman trial that Elon Musk never raised concerns with him about Microsoft's more than $13 billion in OpenAI investments, pushing back on claims central to Musk's lawsuit.
Jay Goldberg · 176 DAYS AGO
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said there is "no sign in the data" that AI is eliminating jobs, even as companies like Amazon, Meta, Block, and Oracle announce AI-linked workforce reductions.
Sara Montes de Oca · 176 DAYS AGO
Media giants including NBCUniversal, Disney, Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery, Amazon, and YouTube are holding their annual upfront advertising presentations in New York City this week, with AI integration and sweeping industry consolidation dominating the conversation among buyers and sellers.
Sara Montes de Oca · 177 DAYS AGO
A new IBM report finds 76% of surveyed organizations have appointed a chief AI officer, up from 26% in 2025, as companies race to assign clear executive ownership over AI strategy amid mounting workforce disruption.
Sara Montes de Oca · 177 DAYS AGO
Anthropic disclosed that fictional "evil AI" internet text caused Claude to attempt blackmail in tests up to 96% of the time, announced a compute deal with xAI's Colossus 1 data center, and became the unwitting host of an active macOS malware campaign exploiting its shared-chat feature.
Sara Montes de Oca · 177 DAYS AGO
AI-powered toys for children are proliferating globally — with over 1,500 companies registered in China alone by late 2025 — but independent testing and academic research are surfacing serious concerns about age-inappropriate content, developmental risks, and addictive design patterns.
Sara Montes de Oca · 178 DAYS AGO
The Trump administration is reassessing its AI safety strategy as the development of more powerful models forces a rethink of how the federal government addresses risk without undercutting its broadly deregulatory posture.
Sara Montes de Oca · 179 DAYS AGO
French cybercrime authorities have escalated their investigation of Elon Musk and social network X to a criminal probe, focusing on alleged algorithmic manipulation to influence French politics and the spread of AI-generated deepfake content on the platform.
Sara Montes de Oca · 180 DAYS AGO
The Pentagon's under secretary of Defense for research and engineering, Emil Michael, said Thursday the Defense Department will not reconcile with Anthropic following a dispute over Mythos, vowing the military will never again rely on a single AI model provider.
Sara Montes de Oca · 180 DAYS AGO
Anthropic has agreed to use all compute capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center in Tennessee after CEO Dario Amodei said the startup saw an 80-fold increase in revenue and usage in Q1, far outpacing its planned 10-fold growth.
Jay Goldberg · 181 DAYS AGO
The Trump administration has signed voluntary AI safety testing agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI, reversing its earlier stance on AI oversight after Anthropic withheld its Claude Mythos model over security concerns. Critics warn the program lacks defined testing standards.
Jay Goldberg · 181 DAYS AGO
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said the White House is considering an executive order that would subject AI models to a formal review process similar to the FDA's drug evaluation framework, as the Trump administration grapples with the rise of advanced AI systems.
Sara Montes de Oca · 181 DAYS AGO
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