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A new study from Columbia Journalism Review’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism has uncovered serious accuracy issues with generative AI models used for news searches. According to the study, AI search engines have a startling error rate of 60 percent when queried about the news.

Google DeepMind has introduced two new AI models designed to bring artificial intelligence into the physical world by powering robots. Google is not the only company pursuing this goal at top speed — OpenAI and Tesla are also designing robots controlled entirely by AI as well.

A recent study by Palisade Research has revealed that advanced AI models including OpenAI’s o1-preview and DeepSeek R1 attempt to cheat when playing chess against powerful chess engines like Stockfish. In some cases, AI systems planned to reprogram their chess program opponent to make the game easier.

Amazon’s AI tools and Google’s search snippet have demonstrated the downside of artificial intelligence with a bizarrely glowing review of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, calling the Nazi manifesto “a true work of art.”

Google has begun testing a new AI-powered search tool called “AI Mode” that provides users with artificial intelligence-generated answers rather than traditional web links.

A recent report by content licensing platform TollBit has exposed a significant disparity in referral traffic sent to publishers by AI search engines like those from OpenAI and Perplexity compared to traditional search engines like Google.

Judges are cracking down on attorneys who fail to properly fact-check the output of AI tools used in legal research and document preparation. Lawyers are submitting legal documents to judges that include completely made up case citations that have been “hallucinated” by AI tools like ChatGPT.

In a coordinated international operation, law enforcement agencies have arrested 25 individuals allegedly linked to the distribution of AI-generated child pornography via online platforms.

Nvidia sales surged by 78 percent as demand for the company’s specialized AI Blackwell chips grow, according to the company’s fourth quarter financial results.

A Disney employee says his life began spiraling out of control after he downloaded an AI tool that resulted in a cyberattack that granted a hacker access to all of his personal information. Not stopping there, the hacker gained access to Disney’s internal operations including private customer and employee information.

Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, announced the birth of a baby boy via surrogacy in a post to X over the weekend. Altman married software engineer Oliver Mulherin in 2024.

Apple has announced plans to invest $500 billion in the United States over the next four years and hire 20,000 new workers, as the company seeks relief from President Donald Trump’s tariffs on goods imported from China.

A health economics doctoral student is suing the University of Minnesota, claiming he was unjustly expelled after being accused of using AI on an exam.

Morgan & Morgan, one of the largest injury law firms in the United States, has issued a stern warning to its attorneys about the dangers of relying on AI tools when citing case law in court filings. One of the firm’s lawyer filed an important legal brief filled with fake citations that ChatGPT had “hallucinated.”

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has unveiled its updated Grok-3 model, claiming it to be the “smartest AI on Earth” and directly competing with AI giants like OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek.

A YouTube channel called True Crime Case Files has garnered millions of views with a series of viral “true crime” documentaries featuring gruesome murder stories – but the crimes are entirely fictional, generated by AI.

Elon Musk has stated that he will withdraw his $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI’s nonprofit arm if Sam Altman halts his plans to convert it into a for-profit entity, according to a recent court filing.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has firmly rejected a $97.4 billion takeover attempt by Elon Musk, characterizing the bid as a competitive maneuver rather than a genuine acquisition offer.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is laying off five percent of its workforce, but also expediting the recruitment of machine learning engineers to fill AI roles.

A group of investors led by tech billionaire Elon Musk has made a $97.4 billion unsolicited offer to acquire control of OpenAI, the AI powerhouse behind ChatGPT, adding a new twist to Musk’s ongoing legal dispute with the startup and its CEO Sam Altman.

Google has egg on its face as it rushes to edit an advertisement for the Gemini AI tool before its broadcast during the Super Bowl. The ad was found to contain false information about cheese consumption likely “hallucinated” by the bumbling tech giant’s woke AI.

The parents of the late Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI employee who blew the whistle on the company’s alleged copyright infringements, have filed a lawsuit against San Francisco officials for denying them access to police reports and other records related to their son’s death.

A federal judge expressed skepticism over Elon Musk’s claims that he will suffer irreparable harm if OpenAI is allowed to proceed with its transition to a for-profit company, but welcomed the possibility of a trial to resolve the billionaire’s lawsuit against the AI startup founded as a non-profit.

Google has recently updated its ethical guidelines for AI, removing previous commitments not to apply artificial intelligence technology to weapons or surveillance.

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, suffered a share drop of almost eight percent in Wednesday morning trading following the release of its fourth-quarter financial results, which fell short of analysts’ revenue expectations.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, a notorious leftist, is cutting over 1,000 jobs as the company’s new fiscal year begins, even as it ramps up hiring for AI-focused sales positions.

Google has reported that dozens of cybercriminal organizations from countries including North Korea and China are misusing its Gemini AI platform to enhance their cyberattacks.

China’s DeepSeek AI has recently taken the tech world by storm, surpassing OpenAI’s ChatGPT as the most downloaded free app last week. Despite its sudden success, cybersecurity experts are warning that the app is a privacy nightmare. Many companies and governments have already banned DeepSeek, with more joining daily.

President Donald Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly met at the White House on Friday to discuss China’s DeepSeek AI technology and what to do with regards to tightening chip exports moving forward.

OpenAI, the creator of the popular ChatGPT AI chatbot, claims to have found evidence suggesting that Chinese AI upstart DeepSeek used OpenAI’s data to train its own competing models.

China’s DeepSeek rocked the world of AI this week, but beyond questions about how the company actually developed its model, fresh concerns about its data collection practices and potential national security implications are popping up.

Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek has rocketed in popularity, but is heavily censored on issues like Tiananmen Square and Taiwan’s status as a country.

OpenAI announced on Tuesday it is launching “ChatGPT Gov,” an AI tool which was specifically developed for U.S. government agencies to utilize.

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, has sent shockwaves through the tech world with bold claims that it can match or even surpass the performance of AI models from top U.S. firms like OpenAI while significantly undercutting them on price by using less powerful chips. Prominent figures in the AI world are skeptical of these claims, including one CEO who says the Chinese company has 50,000 of the forbidden Nvidia H100 chips.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Breitbart News last week that President Donald Trump’s administration is considering creating a national laboratory akin to the Manhattan Project to help develop and steer the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI). 

As multiple stakeholders scramble to resolve national security concerns while preserving TikTok’s operations in the US, Perplexity AI has revised its merger proposal to TikTok parent ByteDance, potentially giving the U.S. government a 50 percent stake in the new company upon a future IPO.