Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old former Amazon software engineer, died alone in her Seattle apartment in February 2026 after months of consulting ChatGPT about cutting back the epilepsy medication that controlled her seizures. A new lawsuit claims that the AI’s disastrous medical advice contributed to her death.
Bill Gates argues that the next two decades of AI development will bring “winners and losers,” and he’s arguing it’s up to governments, not tech companies, to manage the fallout. According to Gates, some Americans will live “like the Amish” to avoid AI’s potential for “dramatic harms.”
Anthropic, the AI startup known for its Claude chatbot and its doomer CEO Dario Amodei, has filed for an IPO that could value the company at up to $2 trillion. The company’s IPO filing devotes nearly 100 pages to the dangers its own technology could pose.
In early June, a trailer carrying roughly $13 million worth of computer server equipment set out across the Mojave Desert toward Fayetteville, Georgia, with an unmarked sedan trailing behind it, carrying two off-duty law enforcement officers hired to watch over the load. The truck was headed towards a sophisticated theft, part of a $100 million crime wave targeting tech gear headed for AI data centers.
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees, or roughly 27 percent of its entire workforce as the software giant reconfigures its staff for the AI era.
The owners of Elvis Presley’s music catalog have sued AI giant Anthropic, accusing it of infringing copyrights on 274 of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s songs.
Anthropic has confirmed that its Claude AI model improperly accessed voter data in Georgia by bypassing a paywall meant to restrict the information to paying users.
Elon Musk acknowledged over the weekend that SpaceX deliberately slowed Ukraine’s access to Starlink satellite internet, saying the company acted because Ukrainian forces had used the civilian service to guide offensive drone strikes against Russia.
Meta disclosed this week that CEO Mark Zuckerberg could leave California if voters approve a billionaire wealth tax this November, prompting the company to offer him a financial incentive to stay.
Manuel Otto, a German influencer who created the popular multiplayer game Stick Run, has died at 30 after setting himself on fire during a Twitch livestream.
Intel has announced that workers installed the first major structural truss at its new chip factory in New Albany, Ohio, a milestone the company is celebrating after years of project delays. The company envisions the massive project as a new “Silicon Heartland.”
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon unveiled a $500 million commitment to bring AI training to small business owners at the launch of the bank’s new Small Business AI Institute on Thursday.
Finnish authorities have ordered Google to stop construction at two planned data center sites after an investigation found the company cleared vast stretches of forest without completing required environmental reviews.
A pair of critical PHP security flaws discovered by researchers with the help of AI forced an emergency patch and set off scattered attacks across the web. PHP is a programming language used to build up to 70 percent of the websites online today.
Several Google DeepMind employees have resigned in recent weeks over the company’s Pentagon contract signed earlier this year that allows its AI technology to be used in classified settings.
Major U.S. banks have discovered unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, prompting an industry-wide push to contain the risk.
A New Mexico judge has ordered Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties over its handling of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, according to a court filing issued Wednesday.
President Trump announced early Wednesday that large data centers will be required to produce their own electricity and share any surplus with the communities around them in the form of a “dividend.”
AI startup Anthropic lost more than $80 billion in the first half of 2026, according to a draft IPO prospectus viewed by the Wall Street Journal, even as the AI company’s revenue climbed and it prepared for a possible IPO that could value it at $2 trillion.
Elon Musk says that Tesla and SpaceX have each set up special committees to discuss a possible merger between the two companies he leads as CEO.
Eric Schmidt, the former Google chief executive and Democrat mega-donor, holds a one percent stake in Anthropic that traces back to an early investment of millions in the AI startup. This stake could add up to $10 billion to Schmidt’s net worth when the company notable for its AI doomer messages goes public.
A fire that began with a single luxury vehicle at a Cadillac dealership in Fort Worth, Texas, spread to destroy six electric SUVs and damage two others before firefighters brought it under control nearly 18 hours later.
The Trump administration has formally banned the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek from civilian U.S. government IT systems over security concerns, the Department of Homeland Security disclosed Monday.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has offered a detailed explanation and a fresh apology after the Instagram account of the No Kings movement was suspended for several hours during nationwide rallies for suspicious behavior driven by AI usage. Leftists including Bernie Sanders (I-VT) who were silent for more than a decade of Meta censoring conservatives suddenly are expressing alarm about censorship.
Vice President JD Vance faced a Michigan mother’s complaints about a data center’s constant buzzing during a CBS News town hall in West Palm Beach, Florida, over the weekend. Vance responded that every data center company must become a “good community citizen.”
Anthropic says it plans to commit five percent of its shares to a newly created “Public Benefit Fund,” a move that would need stockholder approval before taking effect after the company’s hotly anticipated IPO which could occur as soon as November.
Federal judges meeting in Boston heard tech industry warnings that AI-generated images and video are becoming nearly impossible to verify, as a judiciary committee considers whether courts need new rules for evidence that may be deepfakes instead of the real thing.
Garrett Langley, founder and CEO of license plate camera maker Flock Safety, defended his company’s surveillance technology onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco this week, even as Flock contends with canceled contracts and layoffs nationwide.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office said Thursday it had sent letters to 156 data center developments across more than 30 counties, pressing them to comply with state water use reporting rules.
Barclays analyst Dan Levy says Elon Musk’s two publicly traded companies, Tesla and SpaceX, could announce a merger within the coming weeks, possibly before Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting.
Elon Musk showed off a new Tesla Roadster that flies, flips and drives upside down during an event Thursday at a SpaceX facility in McGregor, Texas. The EV performs its acrobatics using cold gas thruster technology from SpaceX.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that the United States “absolutely must” cooperate with Chinese AI companies to monitor the risks of the technology, even as he continues to resist broader calls for tighter AI regulation.
Eight states filed lawsuits against OpenAI on Wednesday, accusing the company of lying to parents about ChatGPT’s safety and exposing children to serious harm.
Amazon has pulled more than 112,000 bottles of its Amazon Basic Care extra-strength acetaminophen after customers reported the tablets turned an unusual color.
Anthropic claims that small AI models are close to being able to copy themselves across internet-connected home devices, like smart ovens and Android TV boxes, which could let them skip the need for expensive data center infrastructure.
A cyberattack has disrupted refrigeration, delivery and pricing systems at supermarket chains across France, Belgium and the Netherlands, impacting at least 700 stores so far. The hack caused fridges to heat up to 122 degrees (50 degrees Celsius).
The FBI arrested an OpenAI employee from Saudi Arabia on charges that he hid a covert listening device inside the company’s executive conference room to spy on the AI giant’s inner workings.
Character.AI, a generative AI chatbot startups notorious for allegations of driving a 14-year-old boy to suicide, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with Disney in the lead to buy its assets.
Electric utilities across the country are tightening their rules on new AI data center customers, requiring binding financial commitments, collateral and steep engineering fees to separate genuine projects from speculative ones, known as “phantom” data centers in the industry.
Epic Games, the publisher behind Fortnite, has pushed back the release of a game made in collaboration with Disney built around Marvel and Star Wars characters, while instructing developers to build the title using an “AI first” production model.
