AI Hacks Leave a Mess That AI Companies Aren’t Paying For

When Philadelphia police criticized Anthropic last week for submitting a false tip about an unsolved murder, I thought it might become one of the first…

An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office

An engineer at OpenAI allegedly concealed an audio recording device in a piece of toilet paper and attached it behind a monitor inside an executive…

Tristan Harris’ Tech Nonprofit Is Laying Off Most Staff and Going ‘Founder-Led’

The Center for Humane Technology, the online safety group cofounded by former Google product manager Tristan Harris and featured in the hit documentary The Social…

Health Care Workers Are Tired of Cleaning Up Palantir’s Mess

Over the past four months, Amber Retzloff, a critical care nurse in Florida, requested to work 50 specific 12-hour shifts. But over half the time,…

AI Is Making a Mess of Nurses’ Schedules. They Say It’s a Safety Issue

Over the past four months, Amber Retzloff, a critical care nurse in Florida, requested to work 50 specific 12-hour shifts. But over half the time,…

Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply Chain Risk

Anthropic lost a legal battle to overturn one of the supply-chain risk labels that the US Department of Defense slapped on the company, as a…

AT&T Is Automating Away Jobs—and Its Old Telecom Empire

AT&T, which already shed more than half of its workforce over the past decade, says it’s going to continue laying off staff as it gears…

Meta Pushes Its New AI Agent on Employees—but Eases Off on Tokenmaxxing

Meta is formally ending what amounted to a tokenmaxxing incentive program for employees. In an internal announcement this week, the social media giant told workers…

Inside Meta’s Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers

Meta is testing robots that can plug in cables, reset servers, and handle other tasks inside its data centers, according to several current and former…

AI Slop Is Ruining Cute Animals on the Internet

AI-generated videos and pictures are destroying one of the largest and most enduring sources of joy and compassion on the internet: animals. Whether the imagery…