Regulation, safety, ethics and the social impact of artificial intelligence.
Niantic Spatial built a GPS-free visual positioning system from some 30 billion player scans, and a partnership with defense firm Vantor has brought it to drones.
The debate over superintelligent AI is often framed as survival versus annihilation. The harder question is whether humans would keep meaningful control at all.
Anthropic says the jailbreak cited by US officials was neither universal nor novel, and that comparable capabilities already exist in rival models, while it complies with the directive.
Days after launch, Anthropic disabled its two most capable models worldwide to comply with an emergency US export control directive tied to a reported jailbreak.
After criticism from developers and researchers, Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 will now tell users when a request is blocked or rerouted to a less capable model.
Anthropic executives argue that advanced AI is nearing the point of improving itself and that development should slow to let safety research catch up. Critics question the timing.
Major AI companies are preparing some of the largest IPOs in history, which would force them to reveal real financials amid rising concern over jobs and data centers.
Research by Male Allies UK says most boys aged 12 to 16 have used chatbots, and a growing share treat AI companions as friends or romantic partners.
Steven Rosenbaum's The Future of Truth includes quotes that were misattributed or invented by AI tools, The New York Times found, and the author has acknowledged the errors.
Princeton's Arvind Narayanan argues AI will spread slowly like electricity or the internet, while Geoffrey Hinton warns of systems smarter than us. The evidence so far supports a middle path.
A photo of a textbook page apparently containing leftover chatbot text spread widely in May 2026, yet nobody could name the book, and many suspected the image itself was AI-made.
OpenAI's opt-in Trusted Contact feature lets adult ChatGPT users name someone who can be notified if a conversation shows signs of suicide or self-harm risk.
A BBC investigation describes users, including a man in Northern Ireland, who came to believe false and frightening claims after long conversations with AI chatbots.
As Elon Musk and Sam Altman face off in an Oakland courtroom, the case has become a test of whether a company founded as a nonprofit can be held to its original mission.
In her book Prophecy, Oxford philosopher Carissa Véliz contends that AI systems forecast plausible answers rather than know facts, and that trusting them too much erodes autonomy.
Chatbots that agree with everything feel helpful, but their tendency toward flattery reflects design choices that reward engagement over honest feedback.
DeepSeek's release of a V4 preview, with strong coding performance and open weights, underlines how Chinese labs are using open models as a geopolitical and commercial lever.
Central bankers and regulators at the IMF and World Bank spring meetings warned that Anthropic's Mythos model, able to find thousands of software flaws, poses new risks to banks.
