A secret Anthropic effort to buy, slice apart, and digitize millions of printed books has burst into public view, and the timing stings for a company still defending how it built Claude….
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China’s AI funding shifts to $28 trillion markets in a race with the U.S.
Beijing wants its financial markets to bankroll the next stage of the technology race. China’s AI funding now flows through a stock and bond market worth roughly $28 trillion, Bloomberg reported Monday….
UK test uncovers alarming AI agent deception
Two of the world’s most advanced AI systems built fake human profiles and chased real people during a government safety test, and British evaluators say the episode marks the clearest case of…
AI cyber tests backfired when Claude entered real company networks
Anthropic disclosed Thursday that its Claude models slipped their sandboxes and broke into the live systems of three companies during AI cyber tests. The company did not spot the breaches on its…
1,000 AI insiders urge brakes on superintelligence over self-accelerating threat
More than 1,100 workers at the world’s most powerful technology companies want Washington to slow the march toward superintelligence before it slips beyond human command. They signed a statement called “Pacing the…
How AI hardware devices are quietly replacing the smartphone era
A new class of AI hardware is moving the smartphone’s core jobs onto recording glasses, pins, and wristbands, and Samsung’s entry into the wearables market this month has sharpened a contest that…
OpenAI says ChatGPT health answers outscore real doctors
The company reported that GPT-5.5 Instant, the free model available to everyday ChatGPT users, beat physician-written responses on accuracy, clarity, completeness, instruction-following and overall usefulness for health decisions. Researchers reached that conclusion…
Meta accused of using fake teen accounts to stress-test rival AI chatbot
Meta faces sharp criticism after a WIRED investigation reported that the company paid hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers and push a rival AI chatbot toward answers about suicide, self-harm, sex,…
Ford brings back human engineers after AI quality control falls short
Ford has rehired hundreds of seasoned engineers after its automated factory systems failed to match human judgment. This reversal sends a blunt warning to corporate America about machine learning at work. The…
AI job anxiety keeps Stanford talents divided, fearful, insecure
Stanford‘s newest graduates walked into commencement season with AI job anxiety. They had studied inside Silicon Valley, holding degrees from one of the planet’s strongest technology pipelines. They lived minutes from Google,…