Disney employees are reportedly disturbed by a senior executive’s relationship with an AI chatbot that he refers to as his “son” and that has a child-like avatar resembling a young boy.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order that asks AI companies to submit to a voluntary government review 30 days before releasing AI models to the public.

Hackers have successfully compromised numerous prominent Instagram accounts including the Barack Obama White House profile by simply asking Meta’s AI support chatbot to change the email addresses associated with target profiles, security researchers report.

Legendary filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese have hurled buckets of ice-cold water all over the anti-AI Luddites.

AI powerhouse Anthropic announced on Monday that it has confidentially filed its IPO prospectus with the SEC, establishing the framework for what could become a historic IPO potentially valuing the company at more than $1 trillion.

“PragerU has been hit again by Big Tech, and we are about to expose who was behind this egregious and unfair de-platforming,” according to PragerU.

Harvard graduates cheered after comedian Ronny Chieng proclaimed “fuck AI” during a pre-commencement event on Wednesday. “AI is just going to end up making mediocre people dumber,” the “Daily Show” host declared.

If you are looking at the headline data in the government’s economic report, it is easy to miss the artificial intelligence investment boom.

Carnival Corporation said the personal information of nearly six million customers was leaked due to a data breach in April.

Malaysia began enforcing its social media ban for children on Monday, requiring all social media platforms with 8 million or more users to implement age-verification systems that will prevent people under 16 from creating accounts.

A professor at Grambling State University in Louisiana says he will fail any student caught using AI. “I get paid the same whether I pass you or fail you,” he said.

An AI-powered medication monitoring system failed to detect months of fentanyl theft by a nurse at Tennessee’s largest hospital in Chattanooga, according to state nursing board records that raise questions about the effectiveness of artificial intelligence systems used in hundreds of American hospitals.

Young audiences turned out in droves to movie theaters around the country this weekend. It wasn’t for the big budget “Star Wars” movie, “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” which fell sharply in its second weekend.

Bill Gates who transformed himself from a software tycoon into a leftist icon of environmentalism and health philanthropy, is seeing his meticulously crafted reputation crumble as new details emerge about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Tech giant Google is pursuing government authorization to deploy up to 32 million sterile mosquitoes across California and Florida through its specialized “Debug” program designed to combat disease-carrying insects.

Pop star Rihanna teamed up with Elon Musk’s estranged transgender child Xavier Alexander Musk — who now goes by the name Vivian Jenna Wilson — for her lingerie brand’s salacious Pride campaign.

Hard-left Turkish-American influencers Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker have been banned from entering the United Kingdom.

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a growing class of attacks that exploit AI chatbots through sophisticated conversational manipulation rather than traditional technical hacking methods.

Meta, the company that used to be called Facebook, has allowed at least one department to be run by Chinese migrants, according to a former employee who is now blowing the whistle on the company’s toxic, anti-professionalism culture.

Emily Blunt rejected using artificial intelligence (AI) when filming a pivotal scene in Steven Spielberg’s forthcoming sci-fi film Disclosure Day, saying she is terrified of the creative medium.

An AI firm has reportedly struck a deal to license the late Marvel Comics mogul Stan Lee’s voice and likeness.

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel has reportedly moved his family to Buenos Aires, Argentina, in order to get away from high taxes in the United States — and to flee what he suspects will be a nuclear war and runaway AI.

Elon Musk has created uncertainty among potential investors after posting details about SpaceX’s partnership with Anthropic on social media that appear to contradict information in the company’s IPO filing.

Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna defended the $640,000 price tag of the luxury automaker’s first EV on Thursday, emphasizing the model’s innovation and strong customer demand. Despite the CEO’s positivity, the electric vehicle has been slammed by Ferrari fans and investors alike.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on Thursday said that Disney has a history of allegedly discriminatory behavior, including hiring, promoting, compensating, and practices based on race, gender, and other protected classes.

An unidentified corporation reportedly spent half a billion dollars on Claude AI in just one month after failing to implement usage restrictions on employee licenses, highlighting growing concerns about runaway AI costs in corporate America.

Blue Origin’s massive New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test at Cape Canaveral, Florida, marking the most severe setback in the history of Jeff Bezos’ SpaceX competitor.

The Walt Disney Company is in hell — a few months into 2026, the entertainment giant is drowning in horrible headlines. From mass firings to sluggish streaming show ratings, political problems, corporate infighting, falling attendance at its parks and resorts, and staff arrests in sex crime stings, the bad news for the once unimpeachable House of Mouse is piling up.

Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar called on his fellow lawmakers to levy a tax on companies that execute “AI-driven layoffs.”

A Google engineer made more than $1 million using inside information to place Polymarket bets based on what users were for searching on Google.

Rep. Troy Nehls is leading House Republicans in pressing FBI Director Kash Patel to maintain aggressive action against ransomware gangs targeting hospitals.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced Wednesday it will launch paid premium subscriptions globally for its major social media platforms, introducing Facebook Plus, Instagram Plus and WhatsApp Plus alongside new Meta AI subscription tiers.

A 40-year-old Canadian national has been sentenced to 33 years in federal prison after admitting to targeting over 145 children across the United States in an eight-year sextortion operation that victimized children as young as six years old.

Google’s YouTube platform is rolling out major changes to how it identifies and displays AI-generated content, introducing automatic detection capabilities and more visible labels for viewers.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission asked the courts to drop a Biden-era lawsuit against digital currency exchange Gemini.

The promised Trump Accounts app is now available nationwide, delivering on a key policy initiative that aims to deliver millions of investment accounts for children.

A woman who was fired by Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana after she caused “significant disruption” to the school with a social media post about slain conservative icon Charlie Kirk is reportedly set to receive $225,000 in a legal settlement.
