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  • 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
  • amodeiAI

    Anthropic’s $380 billion valuation vaults it next to OpenAI, SpaceX among largest IPO candidates

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • muskAI

    ‘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
  • Smoke rises from Fort Tiuna, the main military garrison in Caracas, Venezuela, after multiple explosions were heard and aircraft swept through the area, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)Politics

    Airlines cancel hundreds of flights across the eastern Caribbean after U.S. raid on Venezuela

    By Matt O'Brien, Josh Funk, and others
  • A man records a humanoid robot inside the exhibition room at the Humanoids Summit, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)Innovation

    Silicon Valley summit offers rare insight into humanoid robots—and China is the clear winner

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • A Providence police car passes by Brown University’s Van Wickle gates, in Providence, R.I., two days after a shooting took place on Brown University’s campus, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (Lily Speredelozzi/The Sun Chronicle via AP)Law

    How the ‘Reddit Detective Agency’ and surveillance technology helped find the suspect in the deadly Brown University shooting

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • A man records a humanoid robot inside the exhibition room at the Humanoids Summit, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)Innovation

    Even in Silicon Valley, skepticism looms over robots, while ‘China has certainly a lot more momentum on humanoids’

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • robotsInnovation

    ‘The question is really just how long it will take’: Over 2,000 gather at Humanoids Summit to meet the robots who may take their jobs someday

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • OpenAILaw

    OpenAI, Microsoft face wrongful death lawsuit over ‘paranoid delusions’ that led former tech worker into murder-suicide

    By Dave Collins, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • CEO Dario Amodei's Anthropic announced a new $50 billion investment on Wednesday as AI companies build out data center infrastructure.AI

    Anthropic says new $50B investment in data centers will create about 800 permanent jobs and 2,400 construction jobs

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • OpenAIAI

    OpenAI accused of ‘consistent and dangerous pattern’ rushing product to market that is ‘inherently unsafe or lacking in needed guardrails’

    By Barbara Ortutay, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • Carnegie Mellon University Head of Machine Learning, Zico Kolter delivers a keynote speech at AI Horizons Summit in Bakery Square on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025 in Pittsburgh. (Sebastian Foltz/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)AI

    The professor leading OpenAI’s safety panel may have one of the most important roles in the tech industry right now

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press