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    Sam Altman defends himself as a ‘honest and trustworthy businessperson’ in trial testimony detailing his past dealings with Elon Musk

    By The Associated Press, Barbara Ortutay, and others
  • FILE – A woman walks by a giant screen displaying the Google logo at an event at the Paris Google Lab on the sidelines of the AI Action Summit in Paris, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)AI

    ‘It’s here’: Google issues dire warning after catching hackers using AI to break into computers

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • sonyInnovation

    Meet ‘Ace,’ the paddle-wielding robot who just beat humans at ping pong in AI breakthrough

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • darioAI

    White House chief of staff to meet with Anthropic CEO about dangerous new Mythos model, official says

    By Josh Boak, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • AIAI

    ‘I don’t need help’: Meet some of the AI resisters who smell their own extinction

    By Matt O'Brien, Linley Sanders, and others
  • AIAI

    AI is so sycophantic there’s a Reddit channel called ‘AITA’ documenting its sociopathic advice

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Mahesh Thiagarajan, executive vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, shows media the Stargate artificial intelligence data center project in Abilene, Texas on Sept. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt O’Brien, File)AI

    Microsoft is picking up a Texas data center project OpenAI didn’t want, in a telling sign of how far they’ve drifted apart

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • hegsethAI

    Pentagon officially defines Anthropic as ‘supply chain risk’

    By Matt O'Brien, Konstantin Toropin, and others
  • gavalasAI

    Google Gemini was a deadly ‘AI wife’ for this 36-year-old who resisted its call for a ‘mass casualty’ event before his death, lawsuit says

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • hegsethAI

    Former General sees Pentagon painting ‘bullseye’ on Anthropic but warns, ‘they’re not trying to play cute here’

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • amodeiAI

    Dario Amodei says he ‘cannot in good conscience’ bow to Pentagon’s demands over AI use in military

    By Konstantin Toropin, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • modiAI

    How Modi’s AI handholding moment backfired as Sam and Dario refused to play along

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
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    Anthropic’s $380 billion valuation vaults it next to OpenAI, SpaceX among largest IPO candidates

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
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    ‘Space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale’: Elon Musk hatches grand plan as he merges SpaceX and xAI

    By Bernard Condon, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • Art teacher Joyce Hatzidakis uses the AI tool Google Gemini in her high school classroom Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026, Riverside, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AI

    Meet a 70-year-old Home Depot store associate who uses AI on his phone about once an hour: ‘I think my job would suffer if I couldn’t’

    By Matt O'Brien, Linley Sanders, and others