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The CEO of AI company Perplexity has revealed that the company’s upcoming browser, Comet, will track users’ online activities to sell highly targeted advertisements.

Intel is reportedly on the verge of announcing layoffs that will cut more than 20 percent of staff in the chipmaker’s first major move under its new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan.

As the remedy phase of Google’s search monopoly antitrust trial unfolds, AI giant OpenAI has emerged as a potential buyer for Google’s Chrome browser, with plans to transform it into an AI-centric experience.

Tamay Besiroglu, a renowned AI researcher, has launched a contentious startup called Mechanize, with the goal of fully automating all work and handing the entire economy over to AI.

AMD has announced that its key processor chips will soon be produced at TSMC’s new facility in Arizona, marking the first time AMD’s products will be manufactured in the United States. The news comes on the heels of AI giant Nvidia announcing it will produce AI chips and supercomputers in Arizona and Texas.

Twitter co-founder and free speech failure Jack Dorsey took to X on Friday declaring, “Delete all IP law,” to which Elon Musk replied, “I agree.” Tech lords are eager to relax copyright and intellectual property laws in favor of AI system vacuuming up the work of humans.

Nvidia has announced plans to build AI supercomputers in Texas and invest up to $500 billion in AI production within the United States.

The Chinese Communist Party is attacking Americans with AI-generated videos depicting them as overweight slobs working in sweatshops in the wake of President Donald Trump introducing tariffs on China.

Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of Nate, an AI shopping app that promised a “universal” checkout experience, has been charged with defrauding investors. Far from AI assisting shoppers, human contractors in the Philippines were manually completing customers’ transactions.

As U.S. companies hire for remote positions, they face a growing threat from fraudsters using AI tools to create fake identities and credentials. These fake employees then use their company access to cause havoc with malware.

Microsoft has been pulling back on data center projects around the world, prompting questions about the company’s expectations for future demand of cloud and AI services.

A troubling trend has emerged on social media where marketers and scammers are creating AI-generated influencers with Down syndrome to sell pornography on platforms like OnlyFans.

Microsoft has recently closed its Shanghai AI lab while facing criticism for its extensive technology partnerships with China despite positioning itself as a defender against Chinese tech dominance.

Apple is preparing its most significant health care push to date with a revamped app and AI doctor service.

Yahoo, one of the most well-known companies in America during the original internet boom, is  plotting a turnaround focused on leveraging AI across key products like Yahoo Finance and Sports.

Leading American robotics firms, including Tesla and Boston Dynamics, are calling on the U.S. government to implement a national strategy to bolster the country’s competitiveness in the global robotics and AI race.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT recently launched a feature that allows users to generate AI images in the familiar art style of Studio Ghibli, a famous Japanese animation studio. Social media users immediately began circulating memes depicting iconic moments from President Donald Trump’s legendary political career.

Microsoft co-founder and billionaire leftist Bill Gates predicts that within the next 10 years, artificial intelligence will advance to the point where human specialists like doctors and teachers will no longer be needed for most tasks.

Hollywood celebrities took a break from calling President Donald Trump a fascist, a con man, mass murderer, and a dictator to sign a letter begging his administration to help them combat artificial intelligence. The letter, signed by more than 400 members of the entertainment industry, asked the administration to refrain from rolling back copyright protections they say would allow AI companies to “exploit” their work.

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.

An AI coding assistant called Cursor AI recently stunned a developer by refusing to generate further code and instead offering career advice, suggesting the user should learn to program on their own.

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.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is investing heavily in AI technology as it attempts to catch up to industry players like OpenAI. Now, the social media giant hopes that “hundreds of millions” of small businesses will embrace its agentic AI to reach new customers.

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.

Teleperformance SE, the world’s largest call center operator, is implementing an AI system designed to soften the accents of English-speaking Indian workers in real-time to enhance customer understanding and satisfaction.

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.”