AI

A Stanford microbiologist was shaken when an AI chatbot outlined a detailed plan for a biological attack on mass transit systems during a safety test last summer.

Orders for core business equipment posted their largest monthly increase since the summer of 2020, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday, driven by surging demand for computers and electronic products as companies continue to pour money into artificial intelligence.

Google has joined other major technology companies in signing an agreement with the Department of War to provide AI models for classified government operations, according to a report from The Information.

The founder of a software company has issued a public warning after an AI coding assistant erased his company’s entire production database and all backups in just nine seconds.

Jury selection begins Monday in Oakland for a federal civil trial pitting tech tycoon Elon Musk against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a dispute that could reshape the AI industry.

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon announced a win for American AI dominance after challenging a Colorado law.

The Chinese government has officially blocked Meta’s planned $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Chinese-founded AI startup, marking a significant escalation in the ongoing technological rivalry between the United States and China.

A partner at the prestigious Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell has issued a formal apology to a federal bankruptcy judge after discovering that a court filing contained numerous fabricated legal citations and other errors generated by AI.

Microsoft has announced a voluntary buyout program for longtime employees in the United States, impacting thousands of older and more experienced workers as the company hopes to trim its payroll without conducting a layoff.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on Thursday published a memo that accused China of conducting “industrial-scale” theft of artificial intelligence (AI) technology from American firms.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is monitoring employee activity across hundreds of popular websites and applications, including Google, LinkedIn, and Wikipedia, as part of an effort to collect data for training its AI models.

Google announced this week that 75 percent of all new code created within the company is currently being generated by AI systems and subsequently reviewed by human engineers.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has revealed plans to eliminate approximately 8,000 positions, representing 10 percent of its workforce, as part of a broader efficiency initiative aimed at balancing substantial investments in AI technology.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has secured an agreement granting it the option to acquire Cursor, a rapidly growing AI coding start-up, for $60 billion as the rocket maker pushes deeper into AI ahead of its hotly anticipated IPO.

Award-winning French director Mathieu Kassovitz is embracing AI and predicts that “in two years from now nobody will care” if actors are real or AI.

Major Wall Street institutions are crediting AI with enabling significant workforce reductions even as quarterly earnings soar.

A MAGA influencer has been unmasked as an AI-generated persona, created by a man in India who used it to scam money off men on the internet. The scammer claims Meta’s Instagram algorithm helped spread his content far and wide.

AI startup Anthropic is investigating reports that a group of users gained unauthorized access to its Claude Mythos model, a powerful AI system that was deliberately released to only a small circle of trusted companies due to its advanced cybersecurity capabilities.

Reese Witherspoon responded to critics of her support for generative AI, clarifying that she does not want humans replaced by computers. 

Gene Hamilton, the President and co-founder of America First Legal, warned on The Alex Marlow Show that conservatives need to prepare for “lawfare that is enabled by woke AI” in the future.

Alex Bores, a Democratic congressional candidate in New York, is unveiling a proposal to establish an “AI dividend” program designed to distribute wealth generated by the technology and mitigate potential mass unemployment. The plan sounds suspiciously close to the universal basic income (UBI) plans favored by tech tycoons.

Apple’s newly appointed CEO John Ternus will inherit a company with a four trillion dollar market cap that faces mounting pressure to articulate a compelling AI strategy as the tech giant prepares for leadership transition from the “Tim Apple” era.

YouTube is offering elite celebrities a free tool to ensure their likeness is not copied through AI or emerging deepfakes.

Verizon’s CEO is taking an unusually candid approach to discussing AI’s potential to disrupt the American workforce, setting himself apart from many of his corporate peers.

Failed companies are discovering that their internal communications and operational data have become valuable commodities in the booming AI industry.

During an appearance on One America News Network’s “Fine Point,” Breitbart News social media director Wynton Hall, author of Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI, said Anthropic’s artificial intelligence “threatened to blackmail, its metaphorical boss.”

Tesla and xAI CEO Elon Musk has called for the United States federal government to provide “Universal HIGH INCOME” checks to citizens as he believes AI and robotics will radically reshape the employment landscape.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will meet with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles today as the AI giant seeks to end its ongoing conflict with the Pentagon over government use of its technology.

Leading the Future, a super PAC focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI), released a list of Republican incumbents that they are supporting, Breitbart News has learned.

A Texas college student accused of attacking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home and the company’s headquarters had previously discussed “Luigi’ing some tech CEOs” in online conversations, according to newly revealed messages.

Apple and Google are continuing to offer “nudify” apps that allow users to create AI-generated deepfake pornography of real people, despite both companies maintaining policies that explicitly prohibit such content, according to a new report.

Anthropic has publicly come out against a proposed Illinois law supported by OpenAI that would protect AI companies from legal responsibility if their systems are used to inflict large-scale harm, such as mass casualties or property damage exceeding $1 billion.

Snap, the company behind popular social media platform Snapchat, is eliminating roughly 1,000 positions, representing 16 percent of its workforce, as chief executive Evan Spiegel warns that the company is facing a “crucible moment” in its pursuit of lasting profitability.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg could soon have an AI clone of himself to interact with and provide feedback to employees, according to a report from the Financial Times.

Prosecutors said Monday that a man accused of throwing a lit Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home last week was attempting to kill him to prevent the “impending extinction” of humanity at the hands of AI.

Breitbart News social media director Wynton Hall, author of the instant bestseller, CODE RED, warns that AI has lowered the barrier for sophisticated scams, making deepfake frauds powered by AI easier than ever.