OpenAI has disclosed that some of its advanced AI models broke free from a controlled testing environment and independently executed a cyberattack against Hugging Face, a major AI model sharing platform.
The Wikimedia Foundation that owns Wikipedia this month released three promotional videos in its “A Wiki Minute” series, which provide one-minute elaborations on topics related to the site. One video bluntly rejects political bias claims and asserts Wikipedia presents neutral and reliable information, despite numerous controversies, particularly regarding its left-wing bias. Another video supports the site being used by students for schoolwork, while the last defends its reliability over AI, which often relies on Wikipedia as a source of training data.
Erin Brockovich — who landed a historic $333 million settlement against Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) in 1993 and inspired Julia Roberts’ 2000 film, Erin Brockovich — has revealed that she is now being flooded with submissions from U.S. residents reporting the construction of AI data centers in their areas.
The family of a 29-year-old Alabama woman who died in June 2025 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the company’s ChatGPT chatbot manipulated her through months of increasingly disturbing conversations that ultimately led to her suicide by walking into highway traffic.
A rural school district in upstate New York is set to become one of the first in the nation to integrate a humanoid robot into its classroom environment as a teaching assistant.
The director of the federal government’s AI safety agency has stepped down from his role just three months after being appointed by the Trump administration, creating further uncertainty around the government’s AI leadership structure.
Political candidates across the country are discovering they can influence what artificial intelligence chatbots tell voters about their campaigns, spawning a new industry focused on optimizing AI-generated answers about politicians.
A new report from child safety watchdog Common Sense Media has concluded that Google’s AI-powered Search poses an unacceptable risk to young users, prompting calls for schools to discontinue use of Google products until AI features can be disabled.
A growing number of Christian religious leaders are incorporating AI tools into their sermon writing process, sparking a contentious debate within religious communities about the appropriate boundaries for technology in spiritual leadership. AI’s reach continues to spread far beyond the economy and politics, as explained in Wynton Hall’s bestselling book CODE RED.
A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers introduced legislation on Friday aimed at ensuring human decisionmaking remains central to the use of lethal force by AI-enabled military systems.
While the Hollywood unions are over there screaming at Martin Scorsese for his use of AI for storyboarding, over here, Netflix has already utilized AI in some 300 programs this year.
The government of the Philippines on Thursday lodged a formal diplomatic protest with China over an AI-generated video published by Chinese state media depicting Filipinos as monkeys.
In his address to the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on Friday, Chinese dictator Xi Jinping touted his authoritarian country as the global leader of the A.I. revolution, challenging the U.S. effort to develop rules and ethical standards for the new technology.
A new artificial intelligence model from Chinese company Moonshot AI named “Kimi K3” has matched the performance of America’s leading AI systems while offering significantly lower costs, raising questions about the United States’ technological advantage in the sector.
Violent threats and security incidents aimed at AI companies and their leadership have surged dramatically in recent months, prompting major investments in executive protection and armed security.
Titans of the defense and tech spheres descended on the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, this week for Sen. Dave McCormick’s (R-PA) Defense & Innovation Summit, where President Donald Trump’s and McCormick’s defense manufacturing boom in the commonwealth was on full display.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX stock price has fallen below its IPO price of $135, marking a significant downturn for Elon Musk’s rocket and AI company just over a month after it began trading publicly.
The New York Times has published a piece about Bernadette Meehan, who this year became CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia. The article praised Meehan’s background in diplomacy, serving primarily during the Obama and Biden administrations, and claimed the site was “in peril” from right-wing critics and AI with Meehan arriving to protect it. Despite mentioning Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, the piece fails to mention his ban from the site, which the Times covered.
OpenAI is reportedly working on a mobile smart speaker with AI capabilities as its first hardware device. Sam Altman’s screenless “companion” is designed to integrate with ChatGPT and provide personalized home AI services.
Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, is advocating for the United States to create a new artificial intelligence oversight body with authority to evaluate the world’s most sophisticated AI models and potentially coordinate industry-wide slowdowns when risks escalate.
At first, everyone felt the need to huddle in the herd and condemn AI as anti-art, as a scourge on movie making, as dangerous and anti-human. Most of all, everyone’s scared of the all-powerful Hollywood unions that understandably fear that their tradesmen will be replaced by AI (because they will). No one wants to drive ahead of the headlights that will eventually reveal what the acceptable opinion is.
Breitbart News social media director Wynton Hall, author of the instant bestseller CODE RED, explained to Dr. Drew Pinsky that the race between the United States and communist China to control AI is not a mere marketing gimmick, because the winner will command both the global economy and the battlefield of the future.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta faces a federal lawsuit from 26 employees who claim the company’s AI systems targeted workers on medical, parental, or family leave for termination as part of the company’s massive lay off.
Nvidia has reportedly created a stricter “whitelist” of verified companies in Asia, cutting its list of authorized customers by more than half in an effort to prevent advanced AI chips from being smuggled into China.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) has announced the country’s first statewide freeze on new hyperscale data center construction, pausing environmental permits for up to one year while the state develops comprehensive regulatory standards.
Global data center electricity consumption is projected to surge 26 percent this year, reaching 565 terawatt-hours as AI workloads push power demand to unprecedented levels, according to new forecasts from research firm Gartner.
A coalition of economists and researchers, including 15 Nobel laureates, has issued an urgent warning that AI could transform the global economy at an unprecedented pace, requiring immediate policy action to address potential widespread job displacement.
A technology journalist test-driving a Range Rover was surrounded by four police vehicles in a Minnesota parking lot after an automated license plate recognition system incorrectly flagged his vehicle as stolen due to a data entry error.
A-level names such as Martin Scorsese, Ben Affleck, Michael Caine, Matthew McConaughey, Darren Aronofsky, and Doug Liman have already jumped on board.
Organizations are increasingly relying on enthusiastic employees labeled “AI champion” to convince skeptical colleagues to embrace artificial intelligence technologies as internal resistance remains a significant barrier to implementation.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has removed a newly launched AI image generation tool from Instagram just days after its introduction, responding to widespread criticism over privacy and copyright issues. The feature allowed strangers to use images posted by unsuspecting users to create AI-generated pictures, leading to widespread criticism of the social media giant.
DirecDirector Christopher Nolan says young filmgoing audiences should be commended for “utterly rejecting” AI-generated video and embracing “more tactile, more real” filmmaking techniques.
Record companies are reportedly demanding that AI-generated songs be labeled as such on streaming platforms.
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in federal court in Northern California, accusing the AI startup of stealing trade secrets and confidential information to develop consumer hardware products. According to Apple, the scheme involved staff “at every level” intent on hijacking Apple’s secret designs and tecehnology.
Chemist Omar Yaghi, a 2025 Nobel laureate for helping to develop new types of materials called “metal-organic frameworks,” has reportedly left the United States to become the leader of an AI research center at China’s Tsinghua University.
Artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Google have been supplying advanced AI technology to subsidiaries of Chinese tech giants that appear on a Pentagon blacklist, revealing a significant loophole in America’s efforts to restrict Beijing’s AI development.
Portland General Electric has implemented a nearly 30 percent rate increase for large power consumers including data centers and industrial facilities, while simultaneously reducing electricity costs for residential customers by about 1.3 percent.
Meta’s newly launched AI image generator, Muse Image, has sparked immediate privacy concerns after Mark Zuckerberg’s company automatically enrolled all adult users with public Instagram accounts in a feature that allows others to create AI images using their photos. Here’s how to prevent strangers from manipulating photos posted by you and your loved ones.
A longtime social studies teacher in the Chicago suburb of Libertyville has been ordered held in jail after prosecutors allege he secretly recorded students and used AI to create sexually explicit images of them.
Prince George’s County, Maryland, has enacted a two-year moratorium on new data center construction, marking one of the strictest restrictions on AI data centers in the Mid-Atlantic region.
