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.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos told Fox News in an interview last week that AI could boost productivity enough to let some workers cut back to three days a week while still supporting their households.
Flock Safety, facing mounting scrutiny over privacy and security failures related to its AI-powered license plate cameras, is cutting its workforce by 18 percent, or roughly 270 employees.
Anthropic has revealed that one of its AI models submitted a false tip to the Philadelphia Police Department claiming knowledge of an unsolved homicide. The AI startup didn’t inform police of the incident for several months.
Nearly a year after the deal to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations officially closed, the newly created company, TikTok USDS Joint Venture, still leans heavily on technology and practices inherited from its Chinese former owner, according to interviews and internal materials reviewed by Politico.
Google and Constellation Energy announced a 20-year nuclear-power agreement this week that will boost output at 11 existing reactors across Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Anthropic and OpenAI have spent the past year recruiting former officials from President Trump’s administration into senior roles, a hiring pattern that tracks with frontier AI’s growing status as a matter of national security.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced Thursday it is acquiring low-frequency cellular spectrum meant to help Starlink’s signal reach indoors, not just outdoors, a move towards offering wireless service to American consumers.
Anthropic has rewritten its usage policy for the first time in more than a year, adding new restrictions on election interference, weapons development, and surveillance. Dario Amodei’s AI giant has raised eyebrows by also adding a policy that will ban users who treat the Claude AI chatbot with “abusive or cruel behavior.”
A new nationwide poll finds that nearly two-thirds of American adults believe AI is developing too quickly, with concerns crossing party lines even as Republicans and Democrats diverge on specific priorities.
San Francisco’s board of supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to impose a 45-day moratorium on new data centers, a pause that can be extended up to 22 months. Despite San Francisco being the home of AI development in the United States, one city official said of data centers, “We need to know what these impacts are. Until we know what that is, it needs to stop.”
Amazon shoppers have discovered a page on the ecommerce giant’s site that lays out exactly what the company thinks it knows about their lives, down to their bodies. Here’s how to look up Jeff Bezos’ info file on you.
The House Select Committee on China has concluded that digital investment platform Webull maintains “structural ties” to the Chinese government that pose national security risks to the United States financial system, according to findings released Wednesday.
McDonald’s is facing a proposed nationwide class-action lawsuit alleging the company used an AI tool to help independently owned franchises share pricing and sales data in violation of antitrust law.
Finland’s Licensing and Supervision Agency has ordered Google to stop clearing massive forests for two data center projects until environmental impact assessments are completed.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has filed a civil lawsuit against TP-Link, accusing the Wi-Fi router manufacturer of misleading consumers about both the security of its products and its connections to China.
The FBI has arrested multiple suspects tied to a September hacking operation that targeted the bureau itself, allegedly perpetrated by the notorious hacking group known as ShinyHunters.
South Korean investigators say hackers used a Chinese-made AI agent called Artex to breach at least seven financial firms, stealing personal data belonging to 68,000 people.
Chick-fil-A CEO Andrew Cathy says the company will keep humans, not AI, taking orders at its drive-thru lanes, setting it apart from competitors moving in the opposite direction.
Elon Musk said over the weekend that he will rename SpaceX’s artificial intelligence unit, SpaceXAI, to SpaceXSI, following a presidential directive ordering federal agencies to drop the term “artificial intelligence” in favor of “super intelligence.”
Sam Altman told Decoded by Politico that OpenAI and Anthropic remain far apart on how much risk society should tolerate from AI. According to Altman, the “world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.”
Americans are turning to chatbots created by Silicon Valley leftists to determine how they will vote in the midterm elections. For example, Adam Johnson, a West Virginia Republican who despises the MAGA movement, spent a September evening asking ChatGPT to help him make sense of his midterm ballot.
Executives from AI startup Anthropic gathered a group of religious thinkers for dinner at an upscale restaurant in April, part of an ongoing effort by the company to convince theologians, philosophers and scholars that AI is a conscious being, just like humans are.
President Trump announced the creation of a Super Intelligence Force on Sunday following meetings with top AI company executives and the signing of voluntary safety standards. The “Super Intelligence Force” will be helmed by Director of National Intelligence James Clayton, who has been named AI Czar.
An Arizona appeals court has overturned the prison sentence of a man convicted of manslaughter after a road rage incident, determining that an AI-generated video of his deceased victim used during sentencing was unreliable and created fundamental unfairness in the proceedings.
Yann LeCun, one of three researchers dubbed the “godfathers of AI,” told Fortune he has no fear that AI will destroy humanity, breaking sharply from Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, who he called “deluded” and “crazy.”
Anthropic’s prospectus for its IPO, which could value the company at $2 trillion, warns that the Trump Administration’s view of the company and its technology could ripple out to hurt its broader business, Reuters reports.
Amazon announced Friday it will invest more than $1 billion over the next five years in communities that host its data centers across the United States.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed an executive order Wednesday directing state agencies to stick with the term “artificial intelligence,” a pointed rebuttal to President Trump’s push to rebrand the technology as “superintelligence.”
Hospitals’ growing use of AI to assign medical billing codes contributed close to $1 billion in extra costs for Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans between 2023 and 2025, according to a new analysis from the insurer’s trade association. 70 percent of the additional cost involved additional diagnoses that did not change patients’ actual care, according to the insurer, which describes the situation as a “clear disconnect between coding and treatment.”
Years before she became president of a company reportedly eyeing a $2 trillion IPO, Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei, the sister of CEO Dario Amodei, was running workplace problems past a panel of stuffed animals.
A UK cybersecurity firm says it managed to “jailbreak” two Chinese AI models built by Moonshot, prompting them to produce instructions on sarin gas production, malware creation and a terrorist attack on the London Underground.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is introducing legislation as soon as Wednesday that would impose new limits on AI-powered surveillance cameras from Flock Safety and other companies used by police, local governments and businesses across the country.
The FTC is opening a wide-ranging investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies, examining whether their technology poses dangers to American consumers.
Health Secretary Robert J. Kennedy Jr. told a Washington audience on Tuesday that AI could soon give patients “a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country,” part of a wide-ranging pitch for AI in medicine at the Make America Healthy Again Summit.
A developer trying to build a massive data center near Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, is offering nearby households $10,000 checks if the project gets approved.
Sam Altman’s OpenAI has canceled the planned release of its next-generation AI model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after internal testing turned up safety concerns the company could not resolve in time.
Dario Amodei’s Anthropic is telling would-be investors that the very technology it’s asking them to fund could pose a “catastrophic or existential risk to humanity.” Wall Street is calling Anthropic’s IPO a prospectus a “head scratcher” due to its doomer language.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has introduced Muse for Small Business, a tool that links its Muse AI agent to workplace software popular with small and medium businesses including Asana, Zoom, Intuit, Box, Canva and Slack.
President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are set to sit down Tuesday with a group of tech executives for a lunch on the risks posed by AI.
