President Donald Trump phoned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in the middle of his onstage interview at the All-In Summit on Monday, and Huang put him on speakerphone for the crowd. The Nvidia chief agreed with President Trump that there will not be an AI slowdown.
Anthropic remains on track to go public sometime in 2026, according to multiple people familiar with the matter, even as Dario Amodei set off an AI safety firestorm with his call for a tech slowdown, which was endorsed by Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.
Bill Gates has announced that the Gates Foundation will spend at least $1 billion over the next two years to widen access to AI, warning that without intervention, Artifical intelligence could deepen global inequality rather than ease it.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta says it has fixed a flaw in its AI system that suggested prompts surfacing personal information about users, including their children, after a viral complaint from an Instagram creator.
Dario Amodei, CEO and cofounder of Anthropic, told CBS News that he backs federal regulation of AI and wants the industry to slow down, an idea supported by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk, but opposed by President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump on Sunday dismissed warnings from leading AI executives including Anthropics Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Elon Musk who urged a slower pace of AI development. The President’s response is that “Whoever wins AI, wins.”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on Saturday, urging AI companies to pace how quickly they improve model capabilities, and both Sam Altman and Elon Musk responded within the day expressing support.
A Sydney businessman has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for a four-year campaign of domestic abuse against his former wife that included using a Tesla smartphone app to control her car’s speed, temperature and locks.
Michael Lines, a 34-year-old Californian diagnosed with bipolar 1 disorder in 2024, is suing OpenAI over allegations that ChatGPT nurtured religious delusions that led him to attempt suicide.
Sam Altman reportedly told OpenAI employees this week that the company is open to slowing down its pace of cutting-edge AI development.
Anthropic disclosed Thursday that it had shut down several attempts this year by scientists to use its artificial intelligence models for research that could contribute to biological weapons development.
A former Anthropic researcher’s warning that OpenAI and Anthropic are gambling with humanity’s survival has racked up more than 165 million views and drawn accusations from Elon Musk and others that the whole episode was staged.
Andrew Tulloch, a top AI researcher who made headlines when Mark Zuckerberg lured him to Meta with a pay package that reportedly could have topped $1.5 billion, has left the social media giant after just one year.
Woodford County in Kentucky has enacted a permanent, outright ban on data center development, following a Fiscal Court vote coordinated with the local governments of Midway and Versailles.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed two bills Wednesday that set new rules supported by OpenAI and Anthropic for how outside groups evaluate AI systems for safety, capping a week in which a former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher’s public exit stoked fears about the technology’s risks.
More than a decade ago, Ohio lawmakers exempted tech companies from paying sales tax on the computer servers and equipment that fill data centers. That break has since ballooned into one of the state’s most expensive. Now, Ohio joins a parade of states rethinking the sweetheart deals they gave Silicon Valley giants.
Hunter Biden has put down his paintbrush long enough to turn the “Laptop from Hell” scandal that dogged his father’s 2020 campaign into a cryptocurrency called $LAPTOP. Upon launching, the coin crashed 98 percent in its first hour of trading.
Three Anthropic researchers have broken cover to warn that the AI systems their industry is racing to build could wipe out humanity before the decade is over.
Researchers say more than 250 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material have appeared on Meta’s platforms including Facebook and Instagram since early August, weeks after the company removed dozens of similar ads following reporting from Wired. Wired reports that
A new poll finds that even as more Americans turn to AI tools in their daily lives, most remain deeply uneasy about where the technology is taking the country. An overwhelming 69 percent of respondents oppose AI data centers being built in their area.
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay on the company’s website Saturday warning that no AI lab has done enough on alignment and monitoring to justify continuing to scale systems at maximum speed. Meanwhile, OpenAI has just launched its most powerful AI model to date.
The Trump administration is tightening scrutiny of Chinese-made equipment that powers America’s data centers, citing national security risks as demand for electricity to run AI systems surges.
OpenAI is growing its global affairs team with three new hires focused on state-level AI policy, including Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer’s daughter.
Three novice climbers needed rescue from California’s Mount Shasta last week after planning their trip with help from Google’s Gemini AI chatbot, according to a U.S. Forest Service report. One climber told rangers, “We relied too much on AI rather than our own critical thinking.”
Tim Andrews spent 271 days living with a genetically modified pig kidney before receiving a human kidney transplant in January, giving new hope to patients struggling with dialysis, according to a paper published Thursday in the Lancet.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened an investigation into Tesla’s Cybercab on Friday morning, just hours after the company put the first of the driverless vehicles on the streets of Austin, Texas.
Sam Altman OpenAI has released a new model called GPT-6 Astra to a limited set of customers, calling it the world’s most intelligent AI system and the first of its models to trigger advanced internal safety protections because of its cyber capabilities.
Columbus police have paused their use of Flock automatic license plate readers after an officer was accused of searching the same plate more than 270 times over roughly 14 months.
The White House is rolling out a new website that turns classic arcade games into tributes to President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda.
The FTC led by Chairman Andrew Ferguson is using the authority of its consumer protection bureau, led by Chris Mufarrige, to investigate and potentially sue Google’s YouTube for deceptive claims about its censorship policies.
The DOJ filed a brief siding with OpenAI in its copyright lawsuit with the New York Times, arguing that training AI systems on copyrighted material counts as fair use. The DOJ’s brief does not completely align with the Trump Administration’s AI framework released earlier this year.
A $100 billion data center complex planned to be built near the Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia has effectively been canceled after residents spent five years fighting it in courtrooms, newspapers and town halls.
New York City’s Department of Education is announcing a new policy that bans generative AI tools for students from early childhood through eighth grade, along with new limits on classroom device use.
Elon Musk addressed a virtual session of the G20 yesterday, laying out predictions on AI, humanoid robots and regulation. According to Musk, within 10 years, 1 billion humanoid robots will outproduce all of humanity.
Global spending on data centers could reach $31.6 trillion by 2050 according to a baseline forecast, and as much as $50 trillion if AI adoption accelerates faster than expected, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report. Even the baseline forecast is about the same size as the entire U.S. economy.
The Pentagon has rolled out custom versions of ChatGPT and Grok to millions of Defense Department personnel. The Department of War has now replaced Anthropic’s Claude with access to multiple different AI platforms.
TIME published its 2026 TIME100 AI list last week snubbing Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who had appeared on every prior edition of the ranking. Instead of the CEO whose chips power the entire AI industry, TIME included Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Paris Hilton, and Ben Affleck.
Donald Trump’s FTC, joined by 22 states, sued Amazon on Monday, accusing the internet giant of secretly raising the minimum prices advertisers had to pay for ads.
Florida’s transportation department revoked local police departments’ authority to install license plate reader cameras on state highways Monday, part of a growing national backlash against Flock Safety and other surveillance camera makers.
Build American AI announced Monday it will spend millions of dollars on advertising in Kansas, Ohio and Wisconsin to shape state and local policies on data center construction.
