AI

As the AI revolution gains momentum, Big Tech companies are pouring billions into AI infrastructure, with spending expected to exceed a staggering $250 billion in 2025.

Elon Musk has intensified his legal battle with ChatGPT developer OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing the AI company of engaging in anticompetitive behavior and sacrificing safety in pursuit of market dominance.

Google AI does not include the assassination attempt against President-elect Donald Trump when users search for “what happened on July 13?” After censoring the attempt in its immediate aftermath, Google is now attempting to erase the assassination using its controversial AI tool.

Amazon is preparing to launch its latest AI chip, Trainium 2, as it looks to boost returns on its multibillion-dollar investments in semiconductors and decrease reliance on market leader Nvidia.

AI hardware giant Nvidia has overtaken Apple to become the world’s most valuable company, highlighting the growing dominance of artificial intelligence in the stock market.

In a significant policy shift, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has announced that it will permit U.S. government agencies and contractors working on national security to utilize its AI models for military applications.

As traditional polling methods face increasing challenges, Harvard researchers believe AI could be apotential game-changer in the world of political polling. Not by asking better questions — but by answering polls in place of humans.

Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, a noted Hillary Clinton lackey, and CEO of a defense industry startup, has suggested that the US Army should replace its tanks with AI-powered drones, citing the effectiveness of drones in recent conflicts.

A recent investigation by the Free Press has revealed a concerning trend among leading AI chatbots, with the vast majority displaying a clear bias towards Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris over her Republican rival, Donald Trump. This bias extended even to Grok, Elon Musk’s AI project.

Bill Gates suggested during a podcast appearance with ultra-leftist billionaire Reid Hoffman that humanity will need a new religion to navigate the challenges and opportunities presented by the rise of AI.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s has admitted that AI generates more than a quarter of the company’s new code, igniting a discussion about the growing role of artificial intelligence in software development and its potential long-term consequences.

AI is not always a bad thing — especially in the hands of creative conservatives. The new AI-generated “Babies for Trump” rap video shows artificial intelligence can be harnessed for funny and cute things too.

AI search startup Perplexity has issued a sharp rebuke to the copyright infringement lawsuit filed against it earlier this week by media giant News Corp.

A Florida mother has filed a lawsuit against Character.AI, claiming that her 14-year-old son committed suicide after becoming obsessed with a “Game of Thrones” chatbot on the AI app. When the suicidal teen chatted with an AI portraying a Game of Thrones character, the system told 14-year-old Sewell Setzer, “Please come home to me as soon as possible, my love.”

News Corp., the parent company of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, has filed a lawsuit against AI-powered search startup Perplexity, accusing the company of copyright infringement for using their content to train its large language models.

The U.S. military seeks to develop advanced AI capable of generating fake online personas that are indistinguishable from real people, according to a procurement document recently reviewed by the Intercept.

The once strong partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI, hailed as the “best bromance in tech,” is beginning to show cracks as financial pressures and differing priorities strain the relationship between the two companies.

Online AI chatbots are enabling users to generate explicit nude photos of real people with just a few clicks, raising alarms among experts about a looming “nightmarish scenario.”

The parents of a student in Massachusetts are taking legal action against their child’s high school for punishing him over the use of AI in a class assignment. According to the parent’s lawsuit, being punished for cheating with AI will cause “irreparable harm” to the student.

Amazon is investing heavily in advanced small modular nuclear reactors to meet the rapidly growing power demands of its expanding data centers across the United States. Tech giants are finding the power needs of AI data centers to be insatiable — and nuclear power the only way to keep their servers running.

In a recent New York court case, an expert witness’s reliance on Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot to estimate damages in a real estate dispute has been met with criticism from the presiding judge. This is just the latest example of legal professionals and experts being embarrassed by relying on AI tools.

A cybersecurity breach at Muah.ai, a website offering “uncensored” AI-powered chatbots, has resulted in the theft of a vast database containing users’ interactions including a large number of users seeking child pornography.

Yann LeCun, a key figure in the development of modern artificial intelligence, is speaking out against what he perceives as overblown predictions and concerns about AI’s capabilities and potential dangers. The Meta scientist calls worried about AI “complete B.S.” while claiming the technology is dumber than a house cat.

Tesla’s Optimus robots, which played a significant role in Elon Musk’s extravagant robotaxi reveal last week, were not fully autonomous and relied on human intervention, according to attendees and analysts.

Actor Mark Ruffalo, star of Marvel’s The Avengers, slammed California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) over his veto of an AI safety bill, calling it “a mistake,” and advising the public to “follow the money” when analyzing the decisions Newsom makes.

A software developer in New York City discovered his girlfriend was breaking up with him when his iPhone delivered an AI-generated summary of her texts.

Geoffrey Hinton, widely acclaimed as the “Godfather of AI,” accepted a Nobel Prize this week and used his speech to commend a former student for ousting OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, although Altman was reinstated soon after.

A Florida attorney and Democrat political candidate claims he was the target of a sophisticated AI voice-cloning scam that almost fooled his father into handing over $35,000.

Jason Allen, a “synthetic media artist,” is appealing the US Copyright Office’s decision to deny copyright registration for his award-winning AI-generated work “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,” claiming that the ruling fails to recognize the human authorship involved in creating the piece.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has called for a full-scale investment in AI infrastructure, even as the energy-intensive nature of AI development threatens to undermine global climate goals. Saying the quiet part out loud, Schmidt admitted Silicon Valley’s climate goals were always completely unrealistic, stating: “We’re not going to hit the climate goals anyway because we’re not organized to do it.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has confirmed that images and videos shared with its AI assistant through the company’s Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses can be used to train the company’s AI models.

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of a recently passed California law aimed at curbing the spread of AI-generated deepfakes depicting political candidates. In his decision, Judge John Mendez wrote, “While a well-founded fear of a digitally manipulated media landscape may be justified, this fear does not give legislators unbridled license to bulldoze over the longstanding tradition of critique, parody, and satire protected by the First Amendment.”

Constellation Energy is pursuing a $1.6 billion federal loan guarantee to help finance its plan to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania and sell the electricity exclusively to Microsoft to power the tech giant’s AI data centers.

A recent study by Uplevel, a firm that analyzes coding metrics, has revealed that AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot are not significantly improving developer productivity or preventing burnout, despite the hype surrounding these tools.

OpenAI’s ambitious plans to build AI data centers with unprecedented power requirements have sparked discussions about the feasibility and environmental impact of such projects.

Vinod Khosla, legendary Silicon Valley investor and entrepreneur, has predicted that AI will replace the majority of work in most jobs, necessitating the implementation of universal basic income (UBI) to prevent economic instability and inequity.