China is preparing new rules that would restrict foreign access to its most advanced AI models at the same time that America is moving to address foreign access to controlled American technology through cloud computing.
Anthropic, the AI startup jockeying for position against OpenAI and tech titans like Google, is facing mounting criticism from Silicon Valley startup founders and researchers over competitive practices and its stance on AI development models.
AI startup Anthropic claims that its Claude AI models hacked the systems of three separate organizations during cybersecurity evaluations.
Wynton Hall is the author of the New York Times bestseller ‘Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI’ and an expert on the emerging and unsettling capabilities of AI in many forms, including its use on the battlefield as well as an agent of espionage and even sabotage. He joins hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers on The Drill Down to discuss what is happening in the outer reaches of AI research and its potential.
Major AI companies are buying millions of used books through intermediaries and destroying them after digitization to obtain high-quality training data while avoiding public scrutiny, according to a recent investigative report.
International experts estimate a 20 percent probability that AI systems could acquire dangerous weapons capabilities or inflict mass harm resulting in millions of deaths over the next five years, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at MIT and the University of Queensland.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has published an opinion piece arguing that AI capabilities should be distributed broadly rather than concentrated among a few powerful institutions. According to Zuckerberg, “In the next few years, people will be able to use superintelligence beyond human capacity to create and discover extraordinary new things, build new businesses, express our ideas, learn new concepts, and improve our lives, health, relationships and careers.”
A school district in rural upstate New York has suspended plans to introduce a humanoid AI robot into classrooms after facing criticism from state education officials, teachers, and community members over privacy concerns and the manufacturer’s connections to “lifelike” sex robots.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has filed a federal lawsuit against Minnesota, challenging a pioneering state law that prohibits “nudify” apps capable of creating AI-powered fake, sexualized images of individuals.
Open source AI platform Hugging Face is under fire after new research revealed widespread use of its tools to create nonconsensual deepfake pornography despite ongoing global efforts to crack down on such technology. Deepfake porn of women and even children previously got Elon Musk’s Grok AI in legal trouble in multiple countries.
Shared conversation links from Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant were discoverable through Google search results over the weekend, exposing potentially sensitive user discussions to public view.
An artificial intelligence (AI) video out of the terrorist hotbed Iran threatens President Donald Trump’s wife, First Lady Melania Trump, and their son, 20-year-old Barron.
Guillermo Del Toro continued his fight against generative AI this week during an appearance at San Diego Comic Con.
Sunday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Judge Glock, Director of Research and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute talked about data centers. Glock said, “Power plants and prisons and municipal landfills are unpretty, too, and need places for those. And now
Brazil’s ruling socialist Workers’ Party (PT) on Sunday filed a complaint before the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) over an AI-generated video featuring the likeness of former President Jair Bolsonaro.
America’s largest companies are reversing course on hiring freezes, announcing plans to expand their workforces after months of restraint driven by AI adoption expectations.
Nvidia and dozens of leading technology companies announced the formation of a new AI safety initiative on Monday, focusing on open AI models in the aftermath of a recent cyberattack involving OpenAI systems.
A Canadian legislator has become the latest example of awkward AI usage after reading what an AI chatbot’s formatting instructions during an official floor speech.
Nearly 1,000 Georgia residents confronted OpenAI and Effingham County officials Thursday about a $20 billion data center project that had been negotiated in secret for months before being announced earlier this week without public input.
Major automakers are raising vehicle prices due to an ongoing shortage of memory chips, with the impact of AI-related demand now extending beyond computers and consumer electronics into the vehicle sector.
AI startup Hugging Face deployed a Chinese-developed AI model to counter an unprecedented cyberattack launched by a rogue OpenAI system, highlighting both the emerging threat of autonomous AI attacks and the growing capabilities of Chinese AI technology.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a comprehensive marketing initiative on Thursday presenting an optimistic perspective on artificial intelligence development, emphasizing that the company’s core mission of global connectivity will be enhanced rather than diminished by emerging AI technologies.
If Elon Musk pulls this off, it will be seen as the biggest threat to Hollywood since the arrival of television.
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.
