Character.AI, a startup that creates AI companions, announced on Wednesday that it would prohibit users under the age of 18 from using its chatbots starting November 25, 2025, in a significant move to address child safety concerns.
George R.R. Martin of A Game of Thrones fame and a group of fellow authors have made substantial progress in their ongoing legal battle against AI giant OpenAI. The authors allege that Sam Altman’s AI giant pirated their books online, trained ChatGPT and other AI models on their works, and then allowed AI to plagiarize their works when answering user queries.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta said it would “aggressively” ramp up spending to stay competitive in the AI arms race, sending its stock down more than 10 percent in morning trading despite posting record revenue in the third quarter.
Google’s YouTube is restructuring its products team in a major shift towards AI, offering voluntary buyout packages with severance to its U.S.-based employees.
A Wikipedia article created earlier this year about the term “adult human female” characterizes it as “hate speech” against transgender individuals. The page, created by an editor who has smeared numerous conservative figures, was added last month to a navigation box about President Donald Trump’s second term that is included on hundreds of articles and connects the term to claimed “persecution” of transgender individuals under Trump.
Trump’s Assistant Secretary of Commerce and administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Arielle Roth, outlined the Administration’s policies for reforming the wasteful Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program in a speech at the Hudson Institute this week. According to Roth, “For years, BEAD was weighed down by red tape and extralegal conditions that slowed down states, deterred providers, and sidelined innovative technologies.”
A bipartisan group of lawmakers including Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) have introduced the GUARD Act to restrict minors from accessing AI “companion” chatbots, citing safety risks, privacy concerns, and mounting lawsuits.
According to the Wall Street Journal, America’s largest employers are cutting white-collar positions at an alarming rate, leaving experienced and new workers struggling to find opportunities in a stagnant job market. AI plays a role in the elimination of some white-collar jobs, with some CEOs directly crediting the technology with reducing headcount.
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana expressed her belief that society will accept the occasional fatal crash caused by self-driving vehicles as the price of technological advancement. Mawakana says that because self-driving cars are not “perfection,” it is a matter of “when” not “if” there are fatal crashes involving robotaxis.
Executives from Google and Meta testify before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on internet censorship under the Biden administration on Wednesday, October 29.
Actress Emma Thompson erupted over her “intense irritation” with artificial intelligence during a recent appearance on CBS’ “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” where she demanded that AI to “f**k off.”
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced that the company will build seven supercomputers for the Department of Energy with up to 100,000 chips all made in America. Huang said, “The first thing that President Trump asked me is, ‘bring manufacturing back.'”
The Loyola University New Orleans student government has reportedly denied a request to start a Turning Point USA chapter on campus.
In a recent memo, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has pushed back against what he calls a “doomsday outlook” on climate change, signaling a shift in his views on the risks posed by a warming planet. Despite the move, he remains an extremist on a variety of issues, including his belief that we need a new “god” for humans to worship in the age of AI.
Earlier this month, the Wikimedia Foundation that owns Wikipedia rejected candidates in community elections for its Board of Trustees, sparking a community revolt. One rejected candidate was Iraqi national Ravan Jaafar Al-Taie, who made numerous anti-Israeli posts. After community-elected board member Victoria Doronina publicly linked the posts to the rejection, Al-Taie filed a conduct complaint against Doronina, who later apologized and announced she was suspending most board activities until the end of the year.
Truth Social on Tuesday announced that it will make prediction markets available on the social media platform in a format called “Truth Predict” in partnership with Crypto.com.
Amazon plans to eliminate approximately 14,000 corporate positions in the coming months, as CEO Andy Jassy turns to AI to streamline the company’s workforce and reduce expenses. Jassy worked the company’s employees that AI-driven job reductions would be coming soon.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has launched “Grokipedia,” an AI-powered online encyclopedia aimed at challenging Wikipedia’s dominance on the internet. The extreme leftist bias of Wikipedia has been extensively chronicled by Breitbart News, including widespread slurs of Charlie Kirk following his assassination.
A man who said Charlie Kirk “got shot in the neck for a reason” was arrested at the University of New Mexico (UNM) after allegedly trying to steal Turning Point USA signs.
Amazon is preparing to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday as it looks to rein in expenses after pandemic-era overhiring, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Reuters.
China and Russia have reportedly been sending attractive women to the United States to seduce Silicon Valley tech executives and steal their secrets.
The real estate industry is embracing AI to change how we buy and sell houses. Agents are increasingly generating the type of “AI slop” that fills YouTube to show off homes, but the videos typically misrepresent properties by showing off amenities that don’t exist or present nonsensical room dimensions.
In a latest wave of executive departures from Elon Musk’s businesses, X Corp’s advertising chief John Nitti has left the social media platform after just 10 months in the role.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing the tech giant of misleading customers into paying higher prices for its Microsoft 365 software after bundling it with the AI tool Copilot.
The State Department has officially canceled the Global Engagement Center (GEC) as part of President Donald Trump’s mission to shut down the “censorship industrial complex,” according to a report.
The US and China have finalized a deal to transfer majority ownership of the American version of TikTok to new owners, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed on Sunday.
Baltimore County’s AI detection system after it misidentified a bag of chips for a gun, resulting in a 16-year-old being ordered to the ground at gunpoint.
Bestselling author Michael Connelly’s latest Lincoln Lawyer novel explores the dangers of AI and its potential to infringe on human rights and creative disciplines. The author warns that AI is “soulless” and that the technology puts “Every kind of creative discipline is in danger.”
The growing reliance on AI-powered chatbots for medical advice has led to several alarming cases of harm and even tragedy, as people follow potentially dangerous recommendations from these digital assistants.
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says he will never be interested in using AI-generated video as a tool in his movies, even joking that he hopes to pass away before he develops any curiosity about the technology.
Two federal judges have admitted that members of their staff used artificial intelligence (AI) to draft court orders over the summer that proved to be factually inaccurate.
Last week, a gunman who declared himself an “anti-contact non-offending” pedophile rushed the stage at WikiConference North America in New York City and threatened to kill himself in protest over the Wikipedia child protection policy, which bans self-identified pedophiles. A member of the site’s Arbitration Committee, often likened to a Supreme Court, claimed the gunman is Connor Weston, who was banned earlier this year under the aforementioned policy.
A diverse group of influential individuals, from tech pioneers to politicians, has signed a statement urging a pause in the creation of artificial intelligence that surpasses human cognitive abilities. The list, which includes the legendary “Godfathers of AI” and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak along with figures like Richard Branson, believe that superintelligent AI could lead to “human economic obsolescence and disempowerment, losses of freedom, civil liberties, dignity, and control, to national security risks and even potential human extinction.”
The widespread Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on October 20 caused an unexpected disruption for owners of Eight Sleep’s high-end “Pod” smart beds, leaving many stuck with overheating or unresponsive mattresses. This is just the latest evidence that plugging everything in your house into the “Internet of Things” is a really bad idea.
Conservative activist Robby Starbuck has filed a defamation lawsuit against Google, alleging that the company’s AI tools falsely linked him to sexual assault claims and labeled him a white nationalist.
A new study from the Competere Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to free trade, found that South Korea’s anti-competitive trade policies could cause $525 billion in losses to the United States over the next ten years, plus enough damage in South Korea to bring the total loss for both countries up to a trillion dollars.
A pink-haired individual at University of Arizona called Turning Point USA activists “Nazis” and told them “watch your neck” — in blatant reference to the assassination of the organization’s founder, free speech martyr Charlie Kirk — while passing by a TPUSA display table on campus.
California voters are about to reject the “independent” congressional map they voted for in 2008. That is the sign of a dysfunctional state — one that has entered a political death spiral.
The principal of Nathan Hale Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, painted a teacher accused of mocking the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk as a victim in a letter sent to the community.
Tesla’s third-quarter earnings call left investors disappointed as CEO Elon Musk focused on futuristic projects like robotaxis and humanoid robots, while providing little guidance on the company’s core EV business.
