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  • OpenAILaw

    OpenAI, Microsoft face wrongful death lawsuit over ‘paranoid delusions’ that led former tech worker into murder-suicide

    By Dave Collins, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • CEO Dario Amodei's Anthropic announced a new $50 billion investment on Wednesday as AI companies build out data center infrastructure.AI

    Anthropic says new $50B investment in data centers will create about 800 permanent jobs and 2,400 construction jobs

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • OpenAIAI

    OpenAI accused of ‘consistent and dangerous pattern’ rushing product to market that is ‘inherently unsafe or lacking in needed guardrails’

    By Barbara Ortutay, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • Carnegie Mellon University Head of Machine Learning, Zico Kolter delivers a keynote speech at AI Horizons Summit in Bakery Square on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025 in Pittsburgh. (Sebastian Foltz/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)AI

    The professor leading OpenAI’s safety panel may have one of the most important roles in the tech industry right now

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Harry, MeghanAI

    Prince Harry, Meghan Markle join with Steve Bannon and Steve Wozniak in calling for ban on AI ‘superintelligence’ before it destroys the world

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Amazon Web ServicesBig Tech

    ‘The reality is it’s all very concentrated’: AWS outage exposes the world’s internet chokepoint, one data-center cluster in Virginia

    By Safiyah Riddle, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • Sam AltmanAI

    Dating chatbot expert: ChatGPT subscriptions aren’t ‘really earning much so having erotic content will bring them quick money’

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • MicrosoftBig Tech

    Microsoft brings you Windows 11, now including AI updates where you talk to your laptop all day

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • ICELaw

    ICEBlock creator devastated by Google, Apple decision to remove app after pressure from ‘authoritarian regime’

    By Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • Sam AltmanBig Tech

    Sam Altman on AI bubble: ‘People make some dumb capital allocations’ from time to time

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Sam AltmanAI

    OpenAI says it’s worried about ‘doomscrolling, addiction, isolation, and … sloptimized feeds’ as it rolls out Sora social media app

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Claude code product manager Cat Wu, left, and Alex Albert, head of Claude relations, work inside Anthropic headquarters in San Francisco, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)AI

    Engineers buck against ‘vibe-coding’ label, saying responsibility still lies with the humans behind the code

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Sam Altman puts his finger to his lips in contemplation during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, May 8, 2025.AI

    ChatGPT went from homework helper to confidant to ‘suicide coach,’ parents testify in Congress after teen’s death

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Dario AmodeiLaw

    ‘We’ll see if I can hold my nose and approve it’: Judge hates $1.5b AI settlement with book authors so much he’s taking 2 weeks to think it over

    By Michael Liedtke, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • Sam Altman testifies in courtNews

    Parents suing OpenAI and Sam AItman allege ChatGPT coached their 16-year-old into taking his own life

    By Matt O'Brien, Barbara Ortutay, and others