DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit

The Department of Justice intervened in a lawsuit over xAI’s gas turbines on Monday. In a filing, the agency sided with Elon Musk’s company, saying…

Anthropic Is Still at Odds With the White House Over Claude Fable 5

Trump administration officials concluded talks with Anthropic on Monday without lifting export controls that were imposed last week on the company’s most advanced AI models…

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’

Meta did an “atrocious” job of rolling out a new artificial intelligence division and will aim to “rekindle” a more cheerful internal culture through better…

Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses

Meta is testing face-recognition software built by a company that sells surveillance tools to police departments and the United States military, as it explores bringing…

A German Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews

A local court in Germany has issued a ruling that could reshape the operation of search engines and artificial-intelligence-based chatbots worldwide. The Munich Regional Court…

Anthropic Says It’s Taking Claude Fable 5 Offline to Comply With US Government Order

Anthropic says it’s disabling two AI models it launched earlier this week, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, to comply with an export control directive…

Meta Employees Absolutely Hate Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s internal announcement on Friday about a “large” companywide AI hackathon next month quickly sparked frustration and disbelief among employees. In internal…

‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess

Someone interrupted a livestreamed, employee-only presentation at Meta earlier this week with an expletive-filled outburst about “being the company’s bitch,” according to a recording heard…

China Didn't Make People Hate Data Centers

Right-wing officials and data center investors are increasingly claiming that data center protests are being funded and influenced by the Chinese government. OpenAI added to…

You Probably Won’t Get Rich Off the SpaceX IPO

One thing that seems certain about the SpaceX IPO is that it’s going to make lots of people very, very rich. Another is that you…