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The “Super Intelligence Force” will be led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and chairman of the Federal Trade Commission Andrew Ferguson, President Donald Trump says on Truth Social.
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By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.
SoftBank Group Corp. chief Masayoshi Son — one of AI’s fervent believers — said that even he’s worried about safety risks as machines quickly gain more abilities.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns against attributing religious power to AI models, calling it a "real safety issue." His comments follow reports on Anthropic's meetings with religious thinkers and a statement by Pope Leo XIV on AI.
Fund managers see hedge funds and emerging markets assets as bulwarks against sudden shift in sentiment on artificial intelligence
Cyber security incidents involving company’s AI tools leave ChatGPT maker vulnerable to wave of lawsuits
Leaders who have gone all-in on new tech tools describe how they are reimagining their working lives
Apple, Google and Meta are pushing new AI devices and assistants amid growing privacy concerns around wearables.
A closely watched Nvidia-backed startup called Reflection is preparing to shake up the AI race with a powerful open-weight system that could threaten Chinese upstarts and U.S. AI giants alike.
Self-improving AI agents tend to memorize their test tasks, so their gains shrink or disappear on new ones. RRSI, a new method from Google researchers, reins in this effect and lifts scores on unseen benchmarks by up to 4.7 points while using about 30 percent fewer tokens than an unregularized version.
NASA and IBM have released the Lunar Foundation Model, one of the first open-source AI models for lunar science. Trained on nearly 2 million tile bundles, mostly from 17 years of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data, it cuts the error in predicting polar ice deposits.
Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, data center projects in rural areas could be eligible for major tax benefits starting next year. Some hyperscalers do not seem eager to take the free cash.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent criticized prominent artificial-intelligence figures’ warnings about existential risks posed by the technology as alarmist and unhelpful, calling on the industry to police itself and produce solutions.
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Once just an element of science fiction, revelations of AIs gone rogue are increasingly everyday occurrences. As a result, Silicon Valley founders and executives are girding themselves for what they see as the inevitable: a cascade of legal action.
The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.
The company previously said it won't use AI-generated content in its games.
The price of anything with memory is skyrocketing thanks to AI. Aging streaming devices are no exception.
Capcom's Pragmata might be all about the horrors of AI, but in practice the studio doesn't seem so down on the tech. During the Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026 programmer Satoshi Ishida gave a presentation with the mouthful of a title: "The Outlook and Future of the REX Project, Further Evolving the RE Engine for
Kakul Srivastava is the CEO of Splice, the sample platform countless producers rely on for one-shots and melodic loops. Samples pulled from the service have found their way into massive hits like Lisa's "Money" and "Espresso" by Sabrina Carpenter.
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