Articles tagged: Artificial Intelligence

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'Seeing is believing'

Artificial photos of President Trump in papal regalia broke the internet Friday, with at least one Trump ally in Congress ribbing that there was strong momentum for him to succeed the late Pope Francis but others slamming the image as "offensive."

New York Post by New York Post

The CEO of Nvidia Admits What Everybody Is Afraid of About AI

As the AI chipmaker rockets past a $4 trillion valuation, CEO Jensen Huang lays out a stunning vision of a future with robot assistants and revived American factories, but admits the transition won't be painless.

Gizmodo.com by Luc Olinga

ChatGPT can be a disaster for lawyers — Robin AI says it can fix that

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! I’m Jon Fortt — CNBC journalist, cohost of Closing Bell: Overtime, and creator of the Fortt Knox streaming series on LinkedIn. This is the last episode I’ll be guest-hosting for Nilay while he’s out on parental leave. We have an…

The Verge by Jon Fortt

The One Question We Need to Ask to Save Humanity

You're not broken. The world is. Four AIs confirmed what you already sense—and converged on one question that shows the path home. Meet us in the Field, beyond tribe and ego.

Psychology Today by Mike Brooks Ph.D.

The rise of the $1 a year AI deal

AI giants are trying to find every way to get their models in front of federal employees.

Business Insider by Brent D. Griffiths

President Trump’s War On “Woke AI” Is A Civil Liberties Nightmare

The White House’s recently-unveiled “AI Action Plan” wages war on so-called “woke AI”—including large language models (LLMs) that provide information inconsistent with the administration’s views on climate change, gender, and other issues. It also targets mea…

Techdirt by Tori Noble and Kit Walsh

Is AI Running the Government? Here’s What We Know

Generative AI is meant to automate tasks that government workers previously performed, with a predicted 300,000 job cuts from the federal workforce by the end of the year.

Gizmodo.com by Sophia Chen

Links 8/30/2025

Our vivid daily links: Solar wave? Trump approval tanks, ChatGPT reports to police, US bars Palestian diplomats, Japan-China gas field row, India tariff hit, Israel plans Lebanon invasion, US drug chains halt Covid vaccines, rat population rise, more Lisa Coo…

Nakedcapitalism.com by Yves Smith

Columbia tries using AI to cool off student tensions

Can AI help "smooth over" discussion on abortion, racism, immigration, or Israel-Palestine? Columbia University sure hopes so. The Verge has learned that the university recently began testing Sway, an AI debate program currently in beta. Developed by two rese…

The Verge by Hayden Field

Trump Photo Shows The Perils of AI Upscaling Tools

Over the Labor Day weekend, rumors swirled about President Trump's health. On Monday, Getty Images photographer Andrew Caballero-Reynolds captured a grainy image of Trump leaving the White House. [Read More]

PetaPixel by Matt Growcoot

Melania Trump’s AI Era Is Upon Us

The ever elusive first lady has emerged with a brief to exert thought leadership over AI, for the children. Some insiders are excited; others won't touch the subject with a 10-foot pole.

Wired by Jake Lahut

OpenAI reportedly signs $300 billion Project Stargate cloud deal with Oracle

OpenAI and Oracle signed a deal “to purchase $300 billion in computing power over roughly five years,” one of the largest cloud computing deals ever, reports the Wall Street Journal. In July, the two companies revealed their partnership to build data centers …

The Verge by Elissa Welle

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, we’ve got a double-win on the insightful side for MrWilson. In first place, it’s a comment about walling off the open internet to stop AI: The thing is, everyone is a victim, not just the sites getting hammered. The value of the internet is its ope…

Techdirt by Leigh Beadon

Why Is Kyrsten Sinema on CNN Talking About AI?

CNN invited the senator-turned-influence-peddler to “discuss how she's working with the Trump administration to advance some particular causes”

Rolling Stone by Ryan Bort

Anthropic Refuses Federal Agencies From Using Claude for Surveillance Tasks

Anthropic has declined requests from federal law enforcement contractors to use its Claude AI models for surveillance activities, deepening tensions with the Trump administration, Semafor reported Wednesday, citing two senior officials. The company's usage po…

Slashdot.org by msmash

Meta’s quest to own your face

Meta obviously believes in smart glasses. It's not alone: Google, Apple, Samsung, and others all appear to be heavily invested in the idea that the next big gadget will be on your face. But at least for now, it appears Meta is the company building the best, m…

The Verge by David Pierce

Microsoft’s AI CEO on the future of the browser

The AI browser wars are heating up. Google has Gemini in Chrome, Perplexity is building its Comet AI browser, and The Browser Company just got acquired by Atlassian for $610 million. Now, Microsoft wants to be part of the AI browser conversation. I sat down w…

The Verge by Tom Warren

Links 9/27/2025

Our fine daily links: harlequin toad, screen dangers, ocean acidification, China v. Mexican tariffs, Netanyahu dissed, UK bond sale wobbles, Russia-EU plane spat, German child poverty, Comey indictment, US private debt worries, AI workslop, unaffordable house…

Nakedcapitalism.com by Yves Smith

Have We Reached Peak AI Bubble?

NVIDIA has announced a $100 billion investment in OpenAI to build out data centers that use its chips.

Slate Magazine by Emily Peck, Felix Salmon, and Elizabeth Spiers

Gavin Newsom Signs First-In-Nation AI Safety Law

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a first-in-the-nation law on Monday that will force major AI companies to reveal their safety protocols -- marking the end of a lobbying battle with big tech companies like…

Slashdot.org by BeauHD

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents. When making the search abou…

The Verge by Jay Peters

How the AI Bubble Will Pop

The artificial intelligence boom is the most important economic story in the world. But the numbers just don't add up.

Derekthompson.org by Derek Thompson

AI in the 2026 Midterm Elections

We are nearly one year out from the 2026 midterm elections, and it’s far too early to predict the outcomes. But it’s a safe bet that artificial intelligence technologies will once again be a major storyline. The widespread fear that AI would be used to manipu…

Schneier.com by Bruce Schneier

OpenAI may gain 10% of AMD and gamers won’t like it

In the ongoing war of AI investment, OpenAI has secured itself a new ally: AMD. The chip maker will trade millions of its upcoming Instinct MI450 GPUs for an investment by the AI company, worth up to 10 percent of its stock. The numbers, though, remain v…

PCWorld by Mark Hachman

Suspected Chinese govt used CHATGPR to shape mass surveillance proposals...

Suspected Chinese government operatives asked ChatGPT to help write proposal for a tool to conduct large-scale surveillance and to help promote another that allegedly scans social media accounts for “extremist speech,” ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said in a report pu…

CNN by Sean Lyngaas, Jim Sciutto

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

When OpenAI released its new AI-generated video app Sora last week, it launched with an opt-out policy for copyright holders - media companies would need to expressly indicate they didn't want their AI-generated characters running rampant on the app. But afte…

The Verge by Hayden Field

10 Friday AM Reads

My end-of-week morning train WFH reads: • Revisiting “Intelligence Drift” Why AI models still feel like they’re getting dumber. Anecdotal but widespread experience of LLMs seeming great at first, then getting progressively “dumber” over time. With models like…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

The Karpathy Interview, 6 Months After AI 2027

Six months after the AI 2027 project launched, Andrej Karpathy on Dwarkesh Podcast argued for much longer timelines to superhuman coding agents. We review how AI Futures forecasters (Daniel Kokotajlo, Eli Lifland, Nikola Jurkovic) have updated their timelines…

Futuresearch.ai by FutureSearch

AI wins Imitation Game: Readers prefer Fanfic written by ChatGPT

Shall I refer thee to all those lawsuits about fair use? Researchers think this result makes them worth revisiting Readers of texts created to use the styles of famous authors prefer works written by AI to human human-written imitations, but only after develo…

Theregister.com by Thomas Claburn

Why GM will give you Gemini — but not CarPlay

We’ve got a special episode of Decoder today. I’m talking to General Motors CEO Mary Barra and new GM Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson about a lot of big news the company just announced. That includes a Google Gemini-powered AI assistant that’s coming …

The Verge by Nilay Patel

More Than 1,100 Public Figures Call for Ban on AI Superintelligence

More than 1,100 public figures have signed a statement calling for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence. The signatories included Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen, Apple co-founder Steve Woznia…

Slashdot.org by msmash

Links 10/26/2025

Our strategic daily links: Blooming flower, strange shape, ocean plastic, EU rearmament, Gaza horrors, Chinese supercarrier, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, and wretched ex…

Nakedcapitalism.com by Haig Hovaness

Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself

Grokipedia, the copycat of Wikipedia launched by Elon Musk isn’t just a string of AI generated slop, it is a weapon. The launch of "grokipedia" is a calculated, strategic escalation by the billionaire oligarch class to seize control of knowledge production it…

Thedissident.news by Alejandra Caraballo

US Senators and Congress Members Love This AI Stock

We recently published 10 Best AI Stocks to Buy According to American Politicians. ServiceNow Inc (NYSE:NOW) is one of the best AI stocks to buy. Congressman ...

Yahoo Entertainment by Fahad Saleem

Disney Is Getting In on AI Slop

CEO Bob Iger says that Disney+ is working towards platforming AI-driven, user-made content.

Gizmodo.com by James Whitbrook

INSTA Promotes New AI Tool With Trump Kneeling Before Satanic Demon...

Meta promoted its artificial intelligence’s new “free AI creator tools” on Instagram with a piece of content that appears to show an AI-generated video of President Donald Trump kneeling before a demon.A screenshot of the AI-generated video, showcased i…

The Daily Wire by Amber Jo Cooper

Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws

President Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order as soon as Friday that would give the federal government unilateral power over regulating artificial intelligence, including the creation of an "AI Litigation Task Force" overseen by the Attorne…

The Verge by Tina Nguyen

MAGA is once again divided over AI

Trump is re-upping efforts to ban states from regulating AI, and it's drawing pushback from members of his own party.

Business Insider by Bryan Metzger

Trump, Republicans try again to stop states from regulating AI

If at first you don’t succeed, swing again - Big Tech certainly isn’t complaining The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are trying again to eliminate state-level AI regulations in favor of a federal standard. The plan faces opposition from ma…

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

The Download: what’s next for electricity, and living in the conspiracy age

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Three things to know about the future of electricity The International Energy Agency recently released the latest version…

MIT Technology Review by Rhiannon Williams

At The Money: How to Use Narrative Information

At The Money: Ben Hunt on How to Use Narrative Information  (November 26, 2025) Do fundamentals or narratives drive market valuations? That is the question so many are wrestling with in today’s 24/7 algo-based platforms and AI-driven mediascape. Full transcri…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

The Alpha Is Not LLM Monitoring via @sejournal, @Kevin_Indig

Fresh data reveals where AI search value is actually accumulating, and which companies may face painful down rounds. The post The Alpha Is Not LLM Monitoring appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Search Engine Journal by Kevin Indig

Will 2026 Bring Financial Crisis?

From US President Donald Trump’s weaponization of trade to the erosion of US Treasuries’ status as safe-haven assets and breakneck investment in AI, the last year has shaken the foundations of the postwar global economy. As 2025 comes to an end, we asked PS c…

Project Syndicate by PS Commentators

Defending Press Freedom in the Age of Trump

As authoritarian leaders seek to delegitimize independent news and AI blurs the line between facts and falsehoods, journalists around the world are fighting to be heard above a rising tide of misinformation and propaganda. In this environment, news outlets mu…

Project Syndicate by Martin Baron

AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements

In 2024, a Democratic congressional candidate in Pennsylvania, Shamaine Daniels, used an AI chatbot named Ashley to call voters and carry on conversations with them. “Hello. My name is Ashley, and I’m an artificial intelligence volunteer for Shamaine Daniels’…

MIT Technology Review by Michelle Kim

2025.49: Conflicts, Consternation, and Code Red

The best Stratechery content from the week of December 1, 2025, including what the Times missed in its David Sacks story, Atlassian's history and near future, and Code Red at OpenAI.

Stratechery.com by Ben Thompson

Sam Altman's Dirty DRAM Deal

Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole ChristmasWritten by Tom of Moore’s Law Is DeadSpecial Assistance by KarbinCry & kari-no-sugataBased on this Video: https://youtu.be/BORRBce5TGwIntroduction — The Day the RAM Market SnappedAt the beginning…

Mooreslawisdead.com by Moore's Law Is Dead

CoreWeave (CRWV) Soars 20.8% on New AI Investment

We recently published 10 Stocks Sparking Massive Fortunes. CoreWeave, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) is one of the best performers on Friday. CoreWeave saw its share...

Yahoo Entertainment by Angelica Ballesteros

Why the Bay Area is key to the new U.S. push to win the international AI race

Bay Area laboratories are set to play a central role in the Genesis Mission, a multibillion-dollar effort by the Trump administration to accelerate the nation’s artificial intelligence push in the face of technological advances in China. The involvement of La…

Biztoc.com by siliconvalley.com

US teens not only love AI, but also let it rot their brains

Yeah, not shocking, but with other studies linking AI to weaker learning and mental-health risks, it’s a worry Alongside TikTok and Instagram, teens have added ChatGPT to the mix. Pew says about two-thirds of US teenagers have tried an AI chatbot, with nearly…

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

The Download: introducing the AI Hype Correction package

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the AI Hype Correction package AI is going to reproduce human intelligence. AI will eliminate disease. AI is…

MIT Technology Review by Rhiannon Williams

Jimmy Wales trusts the process

Wikipedia will be 25 years old in January. During that time, the encyclopedia has gone from a punchline about the unreliability of online information to the factual foundation of the web. The project's status as a trusted source of facts has made it a target …

The Verge by Joshua Dzieza

As US battles China on AI, some companies choose Chinese

Even as the United States is embarked on a bitter rivalry with China over the deployment of artificial intelligence, Chinese technology is quietly making...

Yahoo Entertainment by Thomas Urbain with Luna Lin in Beijing

X’s deepfake machine is infuriating policymakers around the globe

X's Grok chatbot hasn't stopped accepting users' requests to strip down women and, in some cases, apparent minors to AI-generated bikinis. According to some reports, the flood of AI-generated images includes more extreme content that potentially violates laws…

The Verge by Lauren Feiner

Anthropic CEO: Selling H200s to China is like giving nukes to North Korea

This is totally not because China is giving away its best models away for free, right? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei isn’t happy about the US allowing Nvidia to sell GPUs to Chinese companies, and likened the decision to giving nuclear weapons to an adversary.…<…

Theregister.com by Tobias Mann

Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army

Analytics features arrive first; agentic AI comes later Salesforce is getting cosier with the US Army via a deal worth up to $5.6 billion, selling cloud analytics as the groundwork for a future agentic AI push across the service and the wider DoD.…

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

10 Wednesday AM Reads

My mid-week morning train WFH reads: • Andreessen Horowitz’s Rising Influence Over Trump-Era AI Policy: The VC giant is shaping how Washington thinks about artificial intelligence — and the stakes couldn’t be higher. (Bloomberg free) • “Everything is gambling…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

Trump's Genesis Mission gets its first set of 26 sure-to-succeed objectives

DoE bets AI can speed fusion, unlock decades of nuclear data, and probe fundamental physics The Trump administration has outlined the first 26 goals for its project to inject AI into the government's scientific research, and everything from securing critical …

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

The Pentagon’s battle with Anthropic is really a war over who controls AI

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth sometimes appears as if he’s more interested in the optics of playing the part of a military leader than he is in actually being a military leader.  Maybe that’s why he has chosen a Hollywood-esque high noon — or, at least, late …

Vox by Bryan Walsh

Trump orders federal agencies to drop Anthropic’s AI

On Friday afternoon, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, accusing Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, of attempting to "STRONG-ARM" the Pentagon and directing federal agencies to "IMMEDIATELY CEASE" use of its products. At issue is Anthropic CEO Dario A…

The Verge by Hayden Field, Richard Lawler

We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots

It's the day of the Pentagon's looming ultimatum for Anthropic: allow the US military unchecked access to its technology, including for mass surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons, or potentially be designated a "supply chain risk" and potentially l…

The Verge by Hayden Field

Trump Orders Federal Agencies To Stop Using Anthropic AI Tech 'Immediately'

President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. federal agencies to "immediately cease" using Anthropic's AI technology, escalating a standoff after the company sought limits on Pentagon use of its models. CNBC reports: The company, which in July signed a $200 mi…

Slashdot.org by BeauHD

Pentagon Designates Anthropic Supply Chain Risk Over AI Military Dispute

Anthropic on Friday hit back after U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the Pentagon to designate the artificial intelligence (AI) upstart as a "supply chain risk." "This action follows months of negotiations that reached an impasse over two except…

Internet by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

America Used Anthropic's AI for Its Attack On Iran, One Day After Banning It

Engadget reports: In a lengthy post on Truth Social on February 27, President Trump ordered all federal agencies to "immediately cease all use of Anthropic's technology" following strong disagreements between the Department of Defense and the AI company. A f…

Slashdot.org by EditorDavid

Power Hungry: How The AI Boom Is Forcing A Clean Energy Reckoning

Surging electricity demand from AI data centers is colliding with a federal energy policy that favors slow-build fossil fuels over fast-deploy renewables. Price impact?

Forbes by Ken Silverstein, Senior Contributor, Ken Silverstein, Senior Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/

How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance

On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that his own company had successfully negotiated new terms with the Pentagon. The US government had just moved to blacklist Anth…

The Verge by Hayden Field

AI is now part of the culture wars — and real wars

Hello and welcome to Regulator, the newsletter for Verge subscribers that goes inside Washington's increasingly existential clashes between tech and politics. If this was forwarded to you, can I interest you in a full-fledged subscription to The Verge for onl…

The Verge by Tina Nguyen

Supreme Court Declines to Hear AI Image Copyright Case

The United States Supreme Court has ended the long saga over whether an AI can be registered as the author of an artwork after it declined to take up the case brought by computer scientist Dr. Stephen Thaler. [Read More]

PetaPixel by Matt Growcoot

How the US might be using AI in Iran

In the week leading up to President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, the Pentagon was waging a different battle: a fight with the AI company Anthropic over its flagship AI model, Claude. That conflict came to a head on Friday, when Trump said that the federal gove…

Vox by Peter.Balonon-Rosen, Sean Rameswaram

The Pentagon formally labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk

After weeks of failed negotiations, public ultimatums, and lawsuit threats, the Defense Department has formally labeled Anthropic a "supply-chain risk", escalating its fight with the AI company over their acceptable use policies and potentially bringing their…

The Verge by Tina Nguyen

Anthropic and the Pentagon

OpenAI is in and Anthropic is out as a supplier of AI technology for the US defense department. This news caps a week of bluster by the highest officials in the US government towards some of the wealthiest titans of the big tech industry, and the overhanging …

Schneier.com by Bruce Schneier

Washington reportedly moves to tighten leash on AI chip exports

Draft rules could force Nvidia and AMD to seek government approval before selling abroad The Trump administration is reportedly planning new restrictions on GPU exports, aimed not only at controlling who gets them, but at driving AI investment back into the U…

Theregister.com by Dan Robinson

Anthropic is suing the Department of Defense

Anthropic has sued the US government over its designation as a supply-chain risk, the latest move in a weekslong battle between it and the Pentagon over the acceptable use cases for its military AI tech. The suit, filed in a California district court, accuses…

The Verge by Hayden Field

Anthropic doesn’t trust the Pentagon, and neither should you

Today we’re talking about the messy, fast-moving situation at Anthropic, the maker of Claude that now finds itself in a very ugly legal battle with the Pentagon.  The back-and-forth is complicated, but as of a few days ago, the Pentagon had deemed Anthropic a…

The Verge by Nilay Patel

Trump takes another shot at dismantling state AI regulation

The Trump administration on Friday unveiled its new legislative blueprint for AI regulation, and the seven-point plan includes a clear message: The federal government should avoid many AI regulations beyond a set of child safety rules, and it should bar state…

The Verge by Hayden Field

Wall Street’s Eyes on the Strait

With markets wobbling and bad information everywhere, Citrini Research sent an analyst to the war zone to figure out what’s really happening.

New York Magazine by Jen Wieczner

How to win — and lose — Decoder

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.  Hello and welcome to Decoder, Nilay’s show about big ideas and other problems. This is Nick Statt, senior producer, and I’m joined by host and very occasional guest, Nilay Patel. Nilay, welcome b…

The Verge by Nick Statt, Nilay Patel

10 Thursday AM Reads

My morning train WFH reads: • I Asked ChatGPT to Manage a Stock Portfolio. Here’s How It Did. What followed was a monthslong back-and-forth on everything from tariffs to leveraged funds . Spoiler: it picked momentum and got beaten by a bad market. Useful as a…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

The Download: deepfake porn’s stolen bodies and AI sharing private numbers

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn When Jennifer got a research job in 2023, she ran her new professiona…

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

The post-search Google era begins

Google is many things, but most of the time it's a verb: It is what it is to search the internet for information. But what if it's an AI agent doing the searching? And it's doing it proactively? Without even telling you about it? In the world Google imagines,…

The Verge by David Pierce

OpenAI needs a 26x revenue increase to justify its buildout

J.P. Morgan ran the numbers on the AI buildout: to clear a 10% return on current capital expenditure, the sector needs to generate roughly $650 billion a year in revenue. The actual run-rate is about $25 billion. The five biggest hyperscalers — Amazon, Alphab…

Boing Boing by Ellsworth Toohey

The Download: AI-generated lawsuits and virtual power plants for data centers

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits Most days in her chambers, Judge Maritza Braswell, a federal …

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

10 Thursday AM Reads

My morning train WFH reads: • The Future of Work & AI: How 16 top economists think AI will change the job market, and how to prepare for AI’s labor-market implications. Useful as a baseline against the louder, less data-grounded takes. (Wall Street Journal) •…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

Eric Trump says 'rigged' UFC fight messages were AI fakes

Eric Trump says screenshots showing an alleged conversation with UFC commentator Daniel Cormier, which appeared to show Trump asking whether any fights at the White House event would be rigged, were fabricated.

BBC News by Paul Battison

10 Monday AM Reads

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • The impact of the AI capex boom on S&P 500 return on equity: Record profitability has been one of the factors supporting high S&P 500 valuations. S&P 500 ROE has surged by 150 bp during the past four quarters, driven…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

The race splitting Zohran Mamdani’s coalition

The gradations of Democratic blue are on display in New York’s congressional primaries this Tuesday, where high-profile races are already highlighting the party’s emerging divisions over how to regulate artificial intelligence, immigration enforcement, and th…

Vox by Astead Herndon

V.A.R. and the Rise of Our New Tech Overlords

The World Cup replay system has fostered a very contemporary kind of paranoia about who controls the machines, Jay Caspian Kang writes.

The New Yorker by Jay Caspian Kang

Why I Left Google DeepMind

I fought against Google's Pentagon AI deal from the inside. Powerful people and institutions failed to keep their AI ethics promises under pressure.

Lesswrong.com

The Sound of Inevitability

A 23-year-old raised $225 million, rode an AI thesis to a $25 billion peak, and then watched two-thirds of it vanish in a week. This is the story of how being right about the future isn't enough if you get the math of leverage and timing wrong — and why the m…

Panoptica.com by Kris Abdelmessih

The Download: a censorship conspiracy theory and the first virus created by AI

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy For years, narratives about a “censor…

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

The Download: our 35 young innovators and the “censorship-industrial complex”

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How we picked 35 of the world’s top young scientists and engineers On September 8, MIT Technology Review will reveal its …

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

Semafor Taps Ashley Gold For Key Role Covering Technology

Ashley Gold is joining Semafor as senior technology correspondent, taking on a key role in coverage including AI and global politics. Gold joins from Axios, where she was senior tech policy reporter and co-authored the AI+ Government newsletter. She will star…

Deadline by Ted Johnson

Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules

On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rollercoaster of a battle with the Trump administration. The lawsuit, filed in March in a California d…

The Verge by Hayden Field

10 Monday AM Reads

My back-to-work morning reads: • Is the AI Capex Bubble About to Burst? What 250 Years of Market History Tell Us. The spending on artificial intelligence will end, but probably not when investors suspect it will.  (Barron’s) • Rampell: Wall Street Loved Scott…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

The Trump administration is supporting OpenAI in the NYT copyright lawsuit

The Trump administration has intervened in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, making an argument in favor of the AI lab. The landmark lawsuit, filed in December 2023, alleging that OpenAI unlawfully trained its AI systems on articles from T…

The Verge by Hayden Field

Trump Admin Tells Court: Let OpenAI Rip Off The Intercept’s Articles

Trump’s Justice Department filed a brief on behalf of OpenAI in a landmark copyright lawsuit by The Intercept and other media companies. The post Trump Admin Tells Court: Let OpenAI Rip Off The Intercept’s Articles appeared first on The Intercept.

The Intercept by Noah Hurowitz

ICE Is Paying a Controversial AI Firm to Hide the Identities of Agents

In a leaked memo, an ICE official tells employees the new AI tech will protect them from doxing. Some worry it could be used to root out whistleblowers. The post ICE Is Paying a Controversial AI Firm to Hide the Identities of Agents appeared first on The Inte…

The Intercept by Karl Loftus

Malaysia weighs Huawei chips for sovereign AI, Bloomberg reports

Malaysia is leaning towards Huawei silicon to run its national AI project, according to Bloomberg. No foreign government has openly chosen Chinese AI accelerators over American ones before. Washington told the world last year that buying these particular chip…

The Next Web by Alina Maria Stan

Why AI-generated slopaganda works

The fact that AI can create convincing fakes is not why it’s such a powerful tool of disinformation. Other attributes matter more.

Machinesociety.ai by Machine Society

WATCH: Insiders' new AI warning

An Anthropic researcher is leaving AI, warning it could be out of control by late 2027. OpenAI’s chief scientist is also urging caution, saying no one is prepared for rising machine intelligence.

Abcnews.com by ABC News

China rejects the US distillation advisory as unfounded accusations and smears

China’s foreign ministry has rejected the joint US intelligence advisory accusing Chinese developers of extracting capabilities from American frontier models at industrial scale, calling on Washington to stop making unfounded accusations and smears. Mao Ning,…

The Next Web by Alina Maria Stan

Trump Calls People Who Don't Want Data Centers In Their Backyard Stupid

During an interview that aired on this Friday's The Ingraham Angle on Fox, Trump downplayed warnings from Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who said that AI could kill all of us by the end of the decade, blamed opposition to data centers and AI on "Chinese PR…

Crooksandliars.com by Heather

Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting

Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to "pace the frontier" and slow down AI development. OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly voicing their support on X. Even Alphabet's Demis Hassabis of…

The Verge by Terrence O’Brien

Trump calls the people asking to slow AI down a negative force

Donald Trump was watching golf at his Doonbeg resort in Ireland on Sunday when reporters asked him about the AI industry’s sudden appetite for slowing itself down. He said the United States leads China, that he wants to keep it that way, and that “whoever win…

The Next Web by Ana-Maria Stanciuc

Beijing answers Amodei’s AI slowdown plan by calling it a Cold War script

Dario Amodei’s essay on Saturday made the case that the AI industry must slow itself down. It also asked Washington to “not sell powerful AI chips or semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China” and to crack down on smuggling and on remote access to data c…

The Next Web by Alina Maria Stan

A Senate bill would let Washington block AI models, Reuters reports

Senate negotiators are drafting a bill that would let the US government stop the release of an AI model. Courtney Rozen reported the terms for Reuters. Her sources are two Senate aides, a person familiar with the deliberations and a lobbyist involved in the t…

The Next Web by Alina Maria Stan

‘I am the Hoax Buster’: Trump escalates his attack on AI safety warnings

Donald Trump has called fears about AI a “HOAX” in a string of Truth Social posts. The US president also asked why AI industry leaders want to be regulated. The posts came a day after his remarks in Ireland, where he called people asking to slow AI down a neg…

The Next Web by Alina Maria Stan

Kamala Harris asks Congress for a new AI regulator and a treaty with China

Kamala Harris posted a four-paragraph statement on X on Monday night setting out what she wants Washington to do about AI. She asked Congress to pass new laws and “establish a new federal entity to provide oversight and independent testing” for frontier model…

The Next Web by Alina Maria Stan

Trump’s Position on AI Makes No Sense

If the president is so concerned about staying ahead in the AI race, why is he letting Chinese companies buy American chips?

The Atlantic by Rogé Karma

The AI Superintelligence Slowdown

Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US…

The Verge by Sean Hollister

New polls show that Americans finally agree on 1 thing: Opposing AI

There's not much the American people agree on these days. From Trump Steaks to plastic straws, from vaccines to Teslas, it's hard to pinpoint a topic that hasn't been polarized by politics. But a series of new surveys suggest Americans may have finally found …

Yahoo Entertainment by Andrew Romano

Trump says he’ll name an AI czar and create an ‘AI force’

WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said in a social media post on Saturday that he plans to appoint a new artificial intelligence adviser, known as ‌an "AI czar," and create an "AI force," though he did not provide details about eithe…

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Trump's surprise 'AI Force' leaves tech industry searching for answers

The tech industry is struggling to make sense of President Donald Trump's surprise announcement that he is creating an artificial intelligence task force and appointing a czar to oversee the administration's approach to the technology.Trump, in alengthy Truth…

Yahoo Entertainment by Owen Dahlkamp

GOP donors say Trump missed the mark with latest AI comments

President Donald Trump dismissed concerns over artificial intelligence this week. Republican donors wish he hadn’t.Some donors, all of whom were granted anonymity to speak candidly without reprisal, told POLITICO that Trump’s learn-to-love-it broadsides about…

Yahoo Entertainment by Alex Gangitano

Gov. Pritzker says AI is dangerous 'on the level of nuclear weapons'

With calls to regulate AI growing, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker urged Congress to pass federal guardrails on the technology.  “You can't do this state by state. This needs to be a national effort as well as an international endeavor, especially together with ou…

Abcnews.com by JULIA CHERNER and FORD MCCRACKEN

The US wants an AI-era 'red phone' with China

President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to discuss AI safety and trade at their summit in Washington this week.

Business Insider by Huileng Tan

Bessent says U.S. proposed AI incident alert system in talks with China

NEW YORK (AP) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday the U.S. has proposed a new “notification mechanism” for artificial intelligence incidents that could affect national security, part of weekend discussions ahead of talks at the White House this wee…

Yahoo Entertainment by MATT SEDENSKY

Trump tells the UN that AI is now ‘super intelligence’

Donald Trump used his address to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday to give artificial intelligence a new name. From now on, he said, US government documents would call it ‘super intelligence’, because ‘artificial’ made the technology sound fake. …

The Next Web by Alina Maria Stan

A US-China AI Hotline Won't Be Ready For a While

As the US and China race to become the dominant power in the AI industry, the countries also appear to be figuring out ways to communicate on national security issues.

Wired by Hugo Lowell

US rejects global AI governance at UN Security Council

The United States is rejecting any global governance of advanced AI, telling the UN Security Council in New York today that each country should regulate the technology itself. Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Poli…

The Next Web by Ana-Maria Stanciuc

The vibes are bad for Flock in Washington

Flock is in the hot seat in Washington, even if its CEO declined to actually face senators at a hearing about its "AI Surveillance Network" on Wednesday. "There's many players in this industry, but there's one name that really stands out above the rest, and t…

The Verge by Lauren Feiner

Trump Quietly Killed AI Safeguard After Accepting Millions

President Trump scuttled a major AI guardrail after a series of tech executives donated to his political operation.The Lever reports that in September 2024, the Biden administration began the process of implementing a rule that required AI companies to report…

The New Republic by Hafiz Rashid

China’s AI Gamble -- and America’s Leverage

Photo Credit:AI data center pixabayBy Mario Alexis PortellaThe U.S. is ahead of China in the AI race, and the Chinese know it. But the technological gap with China has narrowed dramatically.

Americanthinker.com

Revelations of AI breaches add to safety fears as Trump meets with Anthropic's CEO

(Bloomberg) -- Global anxiety over artificial intelligence risks has intensified following fresh disclosures about a far wider range of breaches by advanced AI models, setting the stage for a high-stakes meeting between Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer D…

Yahoo Entertainment by Michael Shepard, Maggie Eastland and Courtney Subramanian

US and China agree a super intelligence dialogue and incident channel

The US and China will hold a regular dialogue on super intelligence and set up a channel for incidents. The White House announced the deal in a fact sheet on Xi Jinping’s state visit. Both leaders agreed to call the technology “super intelligence” rather than…

The Next Web by Alina Maria Stan

After AI lunch, Trump backs self-regulation and plans to rename AI

President Donald Trump left a White House lunch with more than two dozen tech leaders on Tuesday, still set against the backdrop of new AI safety rules. He told reporters the executives had agreed that companies should police themselves, NBC News reported. “T…

The Next Web by Ana-Maria Stanciuc

Trump rules out working with China on AI safety before tech CEO lunch

US President Donald Trump has said he does not want to cooperate with China on AI governance, arguing that it would help Beijing catch up with American companies. He spoke on Tuesday in Washington shortly before hosting AI executives for lunch at the White Ho…

The Next Web by Alina Maria Stan

Speaker Mike Johnson tells CNBC he hopes AI guardrails are voluntary

House Speaker Mike Johnson said he hopes safety guardrails for AI will be “voluntary”, speaking to CNBC on Tuesday. Johnson spoke on the channel’s “Squawk Box” hours before a meeting with AI leaders and President Donald Trump in Washington. “I hope it’s volun…

The Next Web by Alina Maria Stan

Ro Khanna plans a bill to ban self-improving AI, CNBC reports

Rep. Ro Khanna plans to introduce a bill that would ban AI models that improve themselves until federal safeguards exist, Garrett Downs reported for CNBC on Monday. Khanna, a Democrat from California, shared a summary of the Human Control Over AI Act with CNB…

The Next Web by Alina Maria Stan

Trump considers creating AI oversight committee after tech execs meeting

President Trump gathered top artificial intelligence leaders in Washington on Tuesday and doubled down on his opposition to government intervention, suggesting that "self-regulation" is the answer to growing worries about the technology getting out of human c…

Yahoo Entertainment by Ben Werschkul

Donald Trump launches new AI-powered government website

President Donald Trump launched America.gov on Tuesday, unveiling what the administration has billed as a new AI-powered gateway to federal information and services that aims to streamline Americans’ interactions with the government.The website, which Trump i…

Newsweek by Gabe Whisnant

Trump pitches an AI 'golden age' as safety fears grip Washington

After weeks of Washington being gripped by a new wave of fear about artificial intelligence gone awry, the Trump administration will take a sharply different take Tuesday, seeking to convince a skeptical public that the nation is instead about to embark on a …

Yahoo Entertainment by Ian Duncan and Cat Zakrzewski, (c) 2026 , The Washington Post

What China wants from AI

The national conversation about AI in the US is full of fear: fear about AI’s potential to end humanity, fear of data centers moving in, fear that government officials will do absolutely nothing even as the industry pleads for regulation, you name it. But the…

Vox by Peter Balonon-Rosen, Sean Rameswaram

America.gov, the US government’s AI chatbot, contradicted Trump on day one

The White House launched America.gov on Tuesday, an AI chatbot meant to be a single front door to federal services. On its first day, it contradicted President Donald Trump. Within hours, some of its answers had changed. Trump signed an executive order at the…

The Next Web by Alina Maria Stan

FTC opens probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs

The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs over the risks their technology poses to consumers. An FTC spokesperson confirmed the probe on Wednesday to CNBC and CBS News. The New York Post first reported the probe earl…

The Next Web by Ana Maria Constantin

FTC opens probe into AI giants, including Anthropic and OpenAI

The Federal Trade Commission is looking into the actions of leading AI labs Anthropic (ANTH.PVT), OpenAI (OPAI.PVT), and other AI firms to determine if they've harmed or misled consumers.According to the New York Times, the investigation centers on whether th…

Yahoo Entertainment by Daniel Howley

Zuck drafted White House AI pledge!

Zuck drafted White House AI pledge! (Second column, 4th story, link) Related stories:Spells United States wrong on 'super intelligence' executive order... NYT: How META Uses Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes... Tech Giant…

Semafor.com by Ashley Gold

Trump tells TIME the US might take stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic

President Donald Trump has ruled out nationalising America’s leading AI labs. But the US might still take a stake in OpenAI and Anthropic, he told TIME in an interview published on Thursday. Eric Cortellessa and Sam Jacobs interviewed Trump at the White House…

The Next Web by Alina Maria Stan

Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ New AI Guardrails Are Meaningless Pudding

Corporations have long enjoyed creating toothless “self-regulatory” regimes that exist primarily to pre-empt real government oversight. While the quality of these orgs can vary somewhat, generally they’re just a toothless pantomime designed to pretend that co…

Techdirt by Karl Bode

Nvidia’s Huang questioned Amodei’s AI warnings at White House, WSJ reports

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and other tech leaders questioned Anthropic’s Dario Amodei about his public warnings on AI at Tuesday’s White House lunch. People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal about the exchange. Amodei replied that…

The Next Web by Alina Maria Stan

OpenAI says Trump’s AI accord needs more detail, Semafor reports

The AI industry’s new pact with Donald Trump is only a start, according to one of the firms that signed it. Ashley Gold reported the comments for Semafor. “Companies are going to have to make it more specific, on how they’re going to operationalize it,” said …

The Next Web by Alina Maria Stan

Anthropic tells IPO investors US government actions could hit its business

Anthropic has warned that the US government’s view of the company could hurt its ties with business customers and partners as well as its government work. The warning is in the AI firm’s IPO prospectus, which Reuters reported on Friday after seeing the docume…

The Next Web by Ana-Maria Stanciuc

Bessent says AI alarmism without solutions is not leadership

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has criticised AI leaders who warn of disaster but offer no fixes. He made the remarks in an interview with Axios published on Saturday. “This alarmism without solutions by some of the AI community, that’s not leadership,” …

The Next Web by Alina Maria Stan

Trump names Jay Clayton as AI czar: Where he stands on AI safety

President Trump on Sunday named Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as his new "AI czar," adding a different category of intelligence, the "artificial" kind, to the U.S. spy chief's portfolio.In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Clayton will lead a…

Yahoo Entertainment by Andrew Romano

マスク氏、SpaceXAIを「SpaceXSI」に改名すると返答

イーロン・マスク氏が、AIの呼び方を「SI」に切り替えると宣言した。日曜早朝にXで「No more AI / SI / It’s better」と投稿し、さらにユーザーから「SpaceXSIに改名するの?」と聞かれると「Yes, we will make that change.」と返し… The post マスク氏、SpaceXAIを「SpaceXSI」に改名すると返答 first appeared on ゴリミー. 【もっと読む】

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Trump announces AI "Super Intelligence Force"

President Trump announced the formation of a "Super Intelligence Force" after meeting with leaders of the country's largest artificial intelligence companies last week.

CBS News by Kaia Hubbard

Elon Musk says SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI after Trump’s AI order

Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX’s artificial intelligence unit, SpaceXAI, will change its name to SpaceXSI. The plan follows an order from US President Donald Trump directing federal agencies to drop the term “artificial intelligence.” Musk confirmed the…

The Next Web by Ana Maria Constantin

Trump allies push to sideline AI safety advocates as fight over oversight grows

BERKELEY, Calif. - After artificial intelligence safety advocates captured Washington's attention with dire warnings about the technology's power, the Trump administration and its allies embraced some of their suggestions, while moving to sideline the advocat…

Yahoo Entertainment by Nitasha Tiku,Ian Duncan and Gerrit De Vynck, (c) 2026 , The Washington Post

Jeff Bezos explains AI by comparing it to other things people don't want

Rebranding Artificial Intelligence as "Super" Intelligence will work about as well as rebranding data centers as "theme parks." Following Donald Trump's lead, billionaire and phallic-shaped rocket enthusiast Jeff Bezos says he prefers calling AI "SI" because …

Boing Boing by Jason Weisberger

Trump to unveil $2.4B in AI credits to boost federal research

Five American technology companies are pledging $2.4B in AI tools and compute credits to federal science at a White House summit, with Nvidia giving $1B and Google the smallest share at $150M. The same administration suspended Microsoft from a residency progr…

The Next Web by Ana Maria Constantin

Sam Altman says Trump’s AI accord is a good start and more will be needed

Sam Altman said the superintelligence accord that President Donald Trump signed with AI executives is “a good start”, but that the industry will need more. He said it in the second of two interviews with Vanity Fair, recorded in San Francisco on 2 October. Th…

The Next Web by Alina Maria Stan

Trump’s AI liability push leaves rogue-agent blame unclear, Bloomberg says

The Trump administration is betting that the threat of lawsuits will keep AI companies honest. But it is far from clear who would pay when an AI agent goes rogue, Maggie Eastland reported for Bloomberg. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and former White House …

The Next Web by Ana-Maria Stanciuc

Salesforce renames AIForce to SIForce as Trump’s AI rebrand spreads

Salesforce is renaming its AIForce agent platform to SIForce, chief executive Marc Benioff said on Friday, as Katherine Li reported for Business Insider. “The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce,” Benioff wrote on X. The change co…

The Next Web by Alina Maria Stan

The Dream of AI Primacy

The US drive to win the AI race against China now feeds a fantasy of permanent American dominance in global affairs.

The New York Review of Books by Julian Gewirtz