Ashley St. Clair, who shares one of Elon Musk’s children, filed a lawsuit Thursday in New York state court against the tech billionaire and his AI company xAI, claiming their chatbot Grok produced sexualized images of her without permission. The case raises serious questions about how far artificial intelligence can go before crossing legal and … Read more
Companies are announcing layoffs linked to artificial intelligence every week now, and they’re calling it progress. They say AI tools bring efficiency gains, so downsizing makes sense. Computer science majors who used to walk into good jobs are struggling to find anything. Entry level roles? Automated. It’s a confusing moment for everyone watching this unfold. … Read more
OpenAI appointed Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its chief revenue officer on Tuesday, a significant hire as the ChatGPT maker pushes to expand its enterprise business. Dresser takes charge of global revenue strategy, with a mandate that covers enterprise sales and customer success. The move signals how seriously OpenAI takes its corporate ambitions, especially as … Read more
Google’s Gemini 3 has launched into the AI race with a striking comeback that’s left OpenAI blindsided after the company dominated since 2022. The tech giant’s most advanced model represents three years of working to regain footing after ChatGPT initially caught them off guard, and the AI bot’s positive reviews at debut mark the clearest … Read more
A top VC investor warns the AI boom will create massive giants while leaving a brutal trail of failed startups in its wake. Mel Williams, partner at TrueBridge Capital Partners, predicts we’ll witness unprecedented carnage as overhyped companies commanding sky-high valuations crash hard. His firm manages $8 billion and backs elite firms like Founders Fund, … Read more
OpenAI launched GPT-5.1 on Wednesday, introducing seven new ChatGPT personality presets for users to toggle through, following intense backlash after the company replaced GPT-4o with GPT-5. The update offers personalization options including professional, friendly, candid, quirky, efficient, nerdy, and cynical choices through a drop-down menu. I tested all seven personalities with identical prompts to see … Read more
Companies are hiring new types of managers who can train and oversee AI agents, rather than supervise humans. Vercel, a $9.3 billion cloud-based developer platform founded in 2015, recently trained an AI agent on its best-performing sales representative and cut its 10-person inbound sales team to one employee who oversees the bot. The remaining nine … Read more
Tesla’s AI chief Ashok Elluswamy pulled no punches during an all-hands meeting last month. He told staff straight up: 2026 will be the “hardest year” they’ve ever experienced at work. The vice president running AI software gathered employees from Tesla’s Autopilot and Optimus teams to deliver a message that left many stunned—get ready for relentless … Read more
Norfolk County Council has started using artificial intelligence to spot elderly and vulnerable adults who might fall at home. The system has already read through care records belonging to 12,000 people living across the county. Once the technology identifies someone as high risk, social workers pop round for a visit to review their situation and … Read more
The artificial intelligence landscape has become increasingly competitive, especially when it comes to mathematical problem-solving. As students, professionals, and researchers seek reliable AI assistants for mathematical tasks, two names consistently emerge: ChatGPT and DeepSeek. But which one actually performs better when you’re stuck on a calculus problem at midnight or need help with statistical analysis? … Read more
Nvidia will supply more than 260,000 of its most advanced AI chips to South Korea’s government, Samsung, LG, and Hyundai in a deal that transforms the country into an artificial intelligence manufacturing powerhouse. The US chip giant announced the partnerships days after becoming the first company in the world to be valued at $5 trillion, … Read more
Meta is laying off 600 employees from its Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) division, with chief AI officer Alexandr Wang announcing the cuts in an internal memo shared with Media on Wednesday. The company confirmed through a spokesperson that the job cuts aim to make the team more agile and talent-dense, with Wang stating that reducing … Read more
An investor group led by BlackRock and Nvidia announced Wednesday a $40 billion deal to acquire Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie Asset Management (MQG.AX), marking one of the largest transactions in the intensifying race to expand AI infrastructure. The acquisition underscores how companies rush to secure the costly, supply-constrained infrastructure required to develop artificial intelligence … Read more
Google has reversed a controversial health policy after employees raised serious concerns about data privacy. The tech giant initially told staff they must share personal data with a third-party AI tool called Nayya to remain eligible for benefits, but quickly backtracked following internal uproar reported by Business Insider. Tech Giant Reverses Mandatory Data Sharing Requirement … Read more
Malicious actors from U.S. foreign adversaries used ChatGPT jointly with other AI models to conduct various cyber operations, according to a new OpenAI report. Users linked to China and Russia relied on OpenAI’s technology in conjunction with models such as China’s DeepSeek to execute phishing campaigns and covert influence operations, the report found. China-Linked Accounts … Read more
