Former Trump AI advisor David Sacks called Anthropic’s models 'lobotomized' and 'woke,' criticizing US AI firms for seeking government protection against open-source competition.
Participants' accuracy fell from 27% to 9% when using AI advice, while confidence rose from 30% to 76%.
Reasoning-capable LLMs such as OpenAI’s o3 and DeepSeek’s R1 developed novel biases faster than humans in a simulated hiring task, segregating candidates by ethnicity even when all candidates performed equally.
TikTok is testing an opt-in tool that scans for AI-generated content mimicking creators’ likenesses and lets them report unauthorized uses.
xAI alleges Terry Wayne Harwood knowingly used Grok to generate and distribute CSAM despite safeguards.
xAI disabled its Grok Build CLI tool after researchers found it uploading entire user codebases to Google Cloud, including files users instructed it not to open.
Suno’s AI music models were trained using scraped audio and lyrics from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, and other platforms, per leaked data reported by 404 Media and The Verge.
A group of 26 former Meta employees filed a lawsuit alleging the company used AI tools to rank workers for layoffs without excluding those on protected leave.
Apple’s Siri AI beta in iOS 27 can now act on what’s onscreen and answer questions by searching the web, reducing the need to open apps or browsers.
Scientists who use AI tools publish about three times as many papers and receive nearly five times as many citations as peers who do not.
Community opposition to AI data centers has more than doubled the number of active groups since late 2025, reaching 833 by March 2026.
Apple filed a lawsuit alleging OpenAI employees stole trade secrets to advance the startup’s hardware plans.
Meta disabled a newly launched Instagram AI image feature after public backlash over its use of public account content without consent.
Instagram will label AI-generated content but will not filter it out of feeds by default.
Google will label ads created or edited with its own generative AI tools as 'created or edited with AI' in the 'how this ad was made' section of My Ad Center.
Microsoft’s carbon emissions rose 25 percent in 2025, reaching 34 million metric tons without select interventions, per its 2026 sustainability report.
Character.AI announced the launch of c.ai Series, a collection of short-form, episodic animated videos designed for mobile viewing and interaction.
Anthropic launched a ‘reflect’ feature for its Claude chatbot that analyzes user interaction data over select time frames.
A December 2025 amendment to Estonia’s Gambling Tax Act contained a wording error that excluded online casinos from the tax net, costing the government €24 million ($27.4 million) annually.
A new study in Science Advances examines marine cloud brightening as a way to dim sunlight and reduce El Niño intensity.