Amazon says its five-year community fund and new transparency measures will help keep the US competitive in AI. Environmental advocates argue the pledge is tiny beside the company’s spending and leaves pollution, water use and power costs unresolved.
Giorgia Meloni has asked the EU to trademark a four-second recording of her voice, seeking a new legal shield against AI impersonation. The application is still under examination, but it reflects a wider race to protect public identities from deepfakes.
Anthropic plans to train 10,000 enterprise AI engineers by 2027, arguing that deployment expertise—not another wave of model upgrades—is what turns experiments into business results. Partners and policy evidence point to a skills gap that reaches far beyond Silicon Valley.
A New York City Council hearing pitted former AI workers warning of catastrophic risks against company representatives pressed to explain how they assess and contain them. Lawmakers signaled they want more than assurances.
Meta’s new Muse agent can search retailers and prepare purchases for approval, promising convenience while sharpening concerns over data, pricing and who controls the customer relationship.
OpenAI will add an invisible watermark to ChatGPT and Codex text for eligible EU users, aiming to meet new transparency rules. But the company acknowledges that modest editing can sharply weaken detection—and that a missing mark proves little.
OpenAI chief Sam Altman argues that hacks, scams and other harms should be tolerated to unlock AI’s larger benefits, sharpening his company’s split with the more cautious Anthropic.
A new open-source utility lets macOS 27 users disable Apple Intelligence, erase its local models and stop them returning. Its popularity exposes a growing backlash from users who see the AI suite as unwanted software taking up valuable storage.
TikTok is adding an AI shopping assistant and direct brand checkout to its main feed, aiming to keep product discovery, advice and payment inside the app. The move widens its commerce push beyond TikTok Shop and puts pressure on retailers and rival AI tools.
Cerebras stock rose 9% after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly called the chipmaker a “close partner.” The remarks helped ease investor concerns following a sharp decline tied to Nvidia competition and the expiration of insider-share lockups.
An employee of Russia’s anti-plague institute in Irkutsk died after an unexplained illness, prompting medical observation or isolation for roughly 189 to 200 people. Authorities said initial testing had not detected plague microorganisms, while international health officials monitored the situation.
Nearly 200 people are under observation in Irkutsk after an anti-plague institute employee died, while Russian officials, the WHO and experts urge caution over reports of pneumonic plague.
OpenAI will test visual ads alongside ChatGPT image-generation results in the US later this month, keeping paid subscribers ad-free while building a broader advertising business around its free tiers.
Norway’s center-left government plans a temporary curb on AI glasses in sensitive public settings, arguing covert recording risks making everyday life feel monitored. It rejects a total ban while it works toward permanent rules.
Elon Musk says SpaceXAI will become SpaceXSI, aligning his AI business with President Trump’s preferred terminology. California is resisting the federal rebrand, while one skeptical observer notes Musk’s promises do not always become reality.
Google has suspended its open-source vulnerability rewards program until at least early 2027, saying invalid and hallucinated AI-generated reports have overwhelmed the engineers and maintainers meant to assess them.
David Robinson’s exit sharpens the dispute over whether OpenAI’s internal safeguards can keep pace with its models. He says the company’s relentless development left little room for reform; OpenAI says it will slow or withhold systems when needed.
Reports of an alleged attempt to crash an Israel-bound Flydubai flight have prompted an Australian inquiry into the pilot’s links to the country. Accounts of a steep descent and a co-pilot’s intervention are being cast as a narrowly averted catastrophe.
OpenAI says it disrupted a coordinated effort to extract protected reasoning from its AI models and traced a central cluster to Moonshot AI, the Chinese company behind Kimi. The claim adds to earlier scrutiny of the startup, though OpenAI did not assign the activity to one actor.
A Hugging Face breach during OpenAI safety testing has moved from a technical failure to a widening legal fight, with state prosecutors demanding records and accountability while OpenAI promises a public reckoning.
