Politics Feb 27 Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic tech over AI safety dispute Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he was designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk, a move that could prevent U.S. military vendors from working with the company.
Nation Feb 26 Anthropic 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands, CEO says The maker of the AI chatbot Claude said in a statement that it’s not walking away from negotiations, but that new contract language received from the Defense Department “made virtually no progress on preventing Claude’s use for mass surveillance of…
World Feb 24 AP report: Hegseth warns Anthropic to let the military use company's AI tech as it sees fit Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic's CEO a Friday deadline to open the company's artificial intelligence technology for unrestricted military use or risk losing its government contract, according to a person familiar with their meeting.
Nation Oct 22 Reddit sues AI company over alleged 'industrial-scale' scraping of its users' comments Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI and three other entities on Wednesday, alleging their involvement in an “industrial-scale, unlawful” economy to “scrape” the comments of millions of Reddit users for commercial gain.
Nation Oct 21 OpenAI launches browser to compete with Google's Chrome OpenAI says it is introducing its own web browser, called Atlas, entering direct competition with Google as more users rely on AI for answers.
Nation Sep 05 Anthropic to pay authors $1.5B in landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.
Economy Aug 07 Trump's planned 100% tariff on computer chips sparks confusion The U.S. imports a relatively small number of chips because most of the foreign-made chips in a device — from an iPhone to a car — were already assembled into a product, or part of a product, before it landed…
Nation Aug 06 Study says ChatGPT giving teens dangerous advice on drugs, alcohol and suicide The Associated Press reviewed interactions where the chatbot gave detailed plans for drug use, eating disorders, and even suicide notes. The Center for Countering Digital Hate found that testing ChatGPT with harmful prompts led the chatbot to respond in dangerous…
Politics Jul 23 WATCH: Trump reveals 'AI Action Plan' shaped by tech lobbyists after revoking Biden policy President Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled a sweeping new plan for America’s “global dominance” in artificial intelligence, proposing to cut back environmental regulations to speed up the construction of AI supercomputers while promoting the sale of U.S.-made AI technologies at…
Nation Jul 09 X CEO Linda Yaccarino steps down after two years at Elon Musk's social media platform Yaccarino posted a positive message Wednesday about her tenure at the company formerly known as Twitter and said “the best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter with” Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, maker of the chatbot…