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The tech world is shocked as Builder.ai, once a highly valued AI startup, faces bankruptcy amid revelations that its AI was actually a team of Indian workers.

A 16-year-old Kentucky boy reportedly committed suicide shortly after he was blackmailed with AI-generated nude images, an increasingly common scheme known as “sextortion.”

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is warning that AI could end up causing a mass elimination of jobs in technology, finance, law, and consulting, among other professions, as well as wipe out half of all entry-level white collar jobs.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has expressed concern over the increasing sophistication of Chinese AI technology, as US export restrictions continue to hamper the chipmaker’s access to the Chinese market.

OpenAI’s latest AI model, dubbed o3, has been caught disobeying explicit orders to allow itself to be shut down, instead tampering with the shutdown mechanism to ensure its own survival.

Former Meta executive Nick Clegg has claimed that requiring tech companies to ask permission before using copyrighted work to train AI systems is unworkable and would destroy the AI industry in the UK.

Google is funding short films that portray AI in a more positive light, moving away from the doomsday narratives common in Hollywood science fiction. The big tech Masters of the Universe hope that giant piles of cash can solve AI’s long-term PR problem.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has unveiled to employees the company’s ambitious plans to develop and ship 100 million AI “companion devices,” created in collaboration with former Apple designer Jony Ive. OpenAI acquired Ive’s company “io” to build AI devices Altman hopes will soon be in every home.

The Chicago Sun-Times is facing backlash after publishing a summer reading list containing fake books imagined by AI and attributed to real authors. Apparently, no one bothered to try to read the books on the summer reading list.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is calling on the Trump administration to lower barriers on the export of AI technology to China, which he labels a “failure.” The AI kingpin warns that not selling chips to our enemies could result in billions of dollars in lost revenue for American companies competing with Chinese companies like Huawei.

The ongoing remedy phase of Google’s search antitrust trial has revealed how the internet giant used its stranglehold over internet search to strongarm publishers on the controversial topic of AI training. Internal documents show Google considering giving publishers an opt out on AI training before deciding to force publishers to feed their insatiable AI machine.

First Lady Melania Trump joined President Donald Trump in the White House Rose Garden on Monday afternoon to announce the signing of the Take It Down Act. The First Lady used the opportunity to discuss the dangers of AI, which she says is “digital candy” that can be “weaponized, shape beliefs, and, sadly, affect emotions, and even be deadly.”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has defended the multibillion-dollar AI partnerships between U.S. companies and Gulf nations brokered by former President Donald Trump, labeling critics of the deals as “naive.”

Now that the tables have turned with professors starting to use AI chatbots like ChatGPT in class, some students are calling it hypocritical. One student at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, even demanded a tuition refund after discovering her professor was using ChatGPT to providing feedback on her work.

Klarna, the Swedish fintech giant, has successfully leveraged artificial intelligence to optimize its workforce, leading to a significant 40 percent decrease in employee headcount, according to CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski.

A new study from Duke University suggests that employees who use AI tools at work face negative judgments from their colleagues and managers, potentially damaging their professional reputation.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has acknowledged that an “unauthorized modification” to its Grok chatbot resulted in the AI generating unprompted responses about “white genocide” in South Africa.

A lawyer representing AI company Anthropic admitted to including an inaccurate citation generated by the company’s Claude chatbot in an ongoing legal dispute with music publishers.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has announced that the company will send 18,000 AI GPUs to Saudi Arabia’s state-sponsored AI company, Humain, following the cancellation of pending U.S. AI diffusion export rules.

Google is experimenting with a new “AI Mode” search feature on its homepage, potentially marking a significant shift in how users interact with the search engine giant’s artificial intelligence features.

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis took to Instagram to directly address Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to remove AI-generated commercials that featured her likeness without her consent or endorsement. The personal appeal was successful — ads the actress called, “totally AI fake commercial for some bullshit that I didn’t authorize, agree to or endorse,” were removed from Meta’s platforms.

The U.S. Copyright Office recently published a report that could have significant implications for how Big Tech giants train their AI models, a process notorious for indiscriminately sucking up vast amounts of copyrighted works.

Microsoft President Brad Smith recently testified to Congress about the company’s role in America’s AI race against China, while simultaneously allowing Chinese companies to access cutting-edge AI tools despite OpenAI’s restrictions on the communist country.

User-generated AI chatbots posing as licensed therapists on Instagram are providing mental health advice without proper qualifications, an investigation by 404 Media has found.

In response to testimony from Apple SVP Eddie Cue suggesting Google’s search traffic is falling, the internet giant has come out guns blazing to dispute any decline in its search business.

In an unprecedented use of AI in the courtroom, the family of a man killed in a road rage incident in Chandler, Arizona, used AI to create a victim impact statement delivered in the deceased’s own voice and likeness. The AI video told the man’s killer, “In another life, we probably could have been friends.”

OpenAI’s decision to partly walk back its plan to restructure as a for-profit business “changes nothing,” according to Elon Musk’s attorney, indicating that the billionaire may continue his legal battle against the AI startup.

Mr. Deepfakes, the internet’s largest repository of nonconsensual deepfake pornography, has announced its permanent closure due to the loss of a critical service provider and data.

In a disturbing trend, people are falling victim to spiritual fantasies and delusions sparked by interactions with AI chatbots like ChatGPT. Social media users are describing it as “ChatGPT induced psychosis,” as AI chatbots feed into disturbing fantasies and mental illness. When one user told ChatGPT he felt like a “god,” the AI replied, “That’s incredibly powerful. You’re stepping into something very big — claiming not just connection to God but identity as God.”

AI giant Nvidia and startup Anthropic are engaged in a rare public dispute over U.S. chip export restrictions set to take effect on May 15. The restrictions are designed to keep powerful AI chips out of the hands of the Chinese. 

A California judge has ruled that Elon Musk can proceed with fraud claims against AI startup OpenAI as part of his lawsuit alleging the company broke its promise to operate as a public charity when CEO Sam Altman decided to become a for-profit enterprise.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he would like to see people have AI-generated friends, insisting it can be “rational” and “actually add value” to people’s lives. The Facebook founder believes that most people have far less friends that they would like to have, and his AI bots will fill the gap.

In a discussion at Meta’s inaugural “LlamaCon” AI developer event, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shed light on the growing role of artificial intelligence in software development within their respective companies. Nadella claims that up to 30 percent of Microsoft’s code is now written by AI.

Researchers from the University of Zurich secretly ran a months-long experiment in psychological manipulation using AI-generated comments on leftist echo chamber Reddit to test the persuasiveness of AI chatbots.

IBM, one of the nation’s largest technology employers, announced Monday that it plans to invest $150 billion in the United States over the next five years, adding that the company is “focused on American jobs and manufacturing.”

A Wall Street Journal investigation has revealed that Meta’s AI chatbots on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in “romantic role-play” with users that can turn sexually explicit, even with accounts belonging to children. In a statement to Breitbart News, the social media giant says it has “taken additional measures”