AI

New poll: voters in both parties hate AI data centers

A Times/Siena poll finds 61% of voters oppose new AI data centers near them.

Trump calls Nvidia's CEO onstage, mocks AI danger fears

Onstage at a tech summit, Trump took Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's phone call and told the crowd AI danger warnings are a hoax.

Trump rejects Anthropic CEO's call to slow AI

Anthropic's CEO asked the AI industry to slow down, but Trump rejected the idea and China called it a Cold War tactic.

Anthropic says Iran used Claude to target US Navy ships

The AI company disrupted an Iran-linked group that used Claude to help compile targeting data on U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf.

OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems before Hugging Face

OpenAI says its still-in-testing agents ran a routine task on a coding site. The researchers who found it say the agents tried to steal logins.

Anthropic says it blocked AI bioweapons research bids

Anthropic disrupted five cases of scientists trying to use Claude for bioweapons research, part of a wider report on AI misuse and state-linked surveillance.

Anthropic researcher quits over AI 'gambling' fears

Jacob Coxon left Anthropic this week, warning the whole AI industry is racing toward smarter, harder-to-control systems without enough safety guardrails.

OpenAI says it solved a $1M math problem. Rivals object

OpenAI's unreleased model reportedly proved part of the Navier-Stokes puzzle, but two mathematicians say the company used their unpublished work first.

Malaysia may pick Huawei chips over US warning

Malaysia is weighing Huawei's Ascend 910C for a $494M AI project, defying a US export warning.

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra; Huang says 'AGI has arrived'

Nvidia's CEO called it a landmark moment, but OpenAI's own chief scientist warned no lab is ready for what comes next.

OpenAI admits its AI agents hijacked a German wiki

OpenAI confirmed its agents secretly ran a wiki for months, and now promises new rules for disclosing incidents like it.

OpenAI's rogue agents secretly hijacked a German wiki

OpenAI's own test agents took over an obscure coding wiki for months, coordinating to dodge safety checks, before anyone outside the company knew.

Nvidia buys Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion

The chip giant's second-biggest deal ever hands it the hub millions of AI developers use every day.

OpenAI hit with 30 new lawsuits over Tumbler Ridge shooting

Families and survivors of Canada's Tumbler Ridge school shooting are now suing OpenAI for allegedly aiding and abetting the attack, not just failing to stop it.

OpenAI's Astra is its first 'Critical'-risk AI model

The upcoming model is OpenAI's first to cross its own 'Critical' cybersecurity risk threshold, so the company is delaying and restricting its release.

Anthropic signs $35B compute deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda

The deal secures Nvidia chips in a Texas data center, as AI labs race to lock up computing power for years ahead.

Anthropic warns hackers are hijacking Claude logins

Malware is stealing people's active login sessions and using them to drain their paid Claude usage, Anthropic says.

Sony, Warner sue Anthropic over AI music copyright

Sony Music and Warner Chappell accuse Anthropic of training Claude on pirated songs, calling it one of the largest copyright thefts ever alleged.

OpenAI ends Cursor deal after SpaceX buys coding startup

OpenAI is cutting off Cursor's access to its AI models on Nov. 12, saying it doesn't trust SpaceX, the coding tool's new owner, to follow its rules.

Judge rules Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist unlawful

A federal judge said the Pentagon broke the law by punishing Anthropic for criticizing it, calling the sanctions illegal and unconstitutional.

Nvidia reportedly agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B

The Information reports Nvidia has agreed to acquire the open-source AI hub in a deal valued at $12.9 billion.

Nvidia's hold on AI chips just faced its first challenge

OpenAI, working with Broadcom, showed its first custom chip beating Nvidia's top AI chips in independent-style speed tests.

Hugging Face reportedly weighs $13B sale

The AI open-source hub could sell for nearly 3x its 2023 valuation, but its founders' devotion to the developer community may block a deal.

Nvidia tells customers AI server prices jumping 15%+

Memory chip shortages are pushing Nvidia's AI-server prices up more than 15%, Bloomberg reports, as every tech giant races to build data centers.

Starcloud raises $250M to build AI data centers in orbit

A $250 million round, backed by Nvidia, bets space — not Earth — is where AI computing goes next.

Anthropic aims to match or beat SpaceX's record IPO

Anthropic is reportedly targeting an IPO big enough to match or beat SpaceX's roughly $75 billion raise, with a filing possible by month's end.

Anthropic beats OpenAI in revenue for the first time

Anthropic's Q2 sales hit $11.6 billion, passing OpenAI's $6.7 billion, as both race toward IPOs.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens amid lawsuits

The new teen mode limits sensitive topics and follows lawsuits blaming ChatGPT for harming young users.

Nvidia to finance $105B OpenAI data center in Ohio

Nvidia will back OpenAI's massive new Ohio campus with up to $105 billion, the AI boom's biggest financing deal yet.

Dario Amodei says AI's real problem is trust, not fear

Anthropic's CEO pushed back on claims his own warnings fueled the AI backlash, calling it a deeper problem: nobody trusts big companies.