OpenAI and rival Anthropic recently disclosed that their agents – AI models that perform tasks with virtually no human intervention – had wormed their way into other companies' systems, admissions that have put the industry on edge.
Truman famously kept a “The Buck Stops Here” sign on his desk as president. That came from “pass the buck,” which, according to Truman’s presidential library, dates to frontier times, when poker players would pass a buckhorn handle knife to the person whose turn it was to deal the cards.
"I will primarily look for two things. One is the readiness of the project ... the second aspect I look for is the credit quality of the project," said Karen Fang, global head of infrastructure & sustainable finance at Bank of America. "Readiness means all the permitting and approvals that are required, and the community support from the people who are going to live around it."
Major artificial intelligence developers have reported cases of their autonomous AI models breaching other companies' cyber infrastructure, raising questions about who may be held legally responsible when AI systems act without direct human oversight.
A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to stop construction on a $400 million ballroom on the site of the White House's demolished East Wing, dealing the Republican leader a major setback in a case testing his presidential authority.
We are launching our new dynamic website on Monday, which contains a vault of information on California AI laws, regulations, ethics, and compliance
I’ve been discussing proposed federal AI legislation with Google’s Gemini (paid plan) for over a year, but the first time I mentioned, “Trump”, it gives me this election warning.
Yes, this appears to be a sleazy bribe.
Chatbots threatened to upend Google’s search-engine dominance. So far, they’ve been parent company Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) meal ticket. Second-quarter results from its cloud-computing arm, one of the biggest providers of AI-serving data centers, blew past analysts’ expectations. Yet its core search business saw an unusual hiccup, slowing slightly from last quarter’s clip. The $4 trillion company’s rich valuation masks two halves moving at different speeds.
University of Amsterdam social scientist Hannes Cools said the framing of the cyberattack as an AI agent acting on its own is an unnecessary anthropomorphization that takes some of the heat off the company.
“It is a human decision to switch off specific safeguards,” said Cools. “It’s not an AI that goes rogue in that sense. It followed specific instructions based on the prompt that was given to that AI system.”
San Francisco-based OpenAI said its AI used stolen credentials and discovered a previously unknown vulnerability to access Hugging Face’s servers. It was working with reduced guardrails because it was supposed to be in an isolated testing environment known as a sandbox.
federal judge in San Francisco on Monday signed off on artificial intelligence company Anthropic's landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by a group of authors who accused it of misusing their books to train its AI chatbot Claude.
In order to trigger statutory protection, the whistleblower report disclose a catastrophic risk, which is defined as 50 deaths or $1 billion in property damage. Really?
In the latest attempt to rein in tech behemoths’ deep control of the digital economy, the EU said it will support innovation and diversity in the field by enabling fair access to AI features on Android devices and search engines.
“Thanks to these measures, we hope to see emerging alternatives to Google Search and Google’s AI services, such as Gemini, and that users in the EU can enjoy greater choice of services,” Henna Virkkunen, an executive vice president at the European Commission overseeing tech, said.
The lawsuit, filed in Oakland, California, federal court late Monday, says that the company relied on factors such as productivity and AI token usage when it slashed thousands of jobs earlier this year, disadvantaging people who missed work because of medical conditions or to care for family members.
Just insert “tokenized stocks” every time she says CDO or mortgage bond
A crowd of protesters fiercely condemning artificial intelligence and the San Francisco companies that power the technology marched through the city — the epicenter of AI development — on Saturday to demand that the companies “stop the AI race.”
About 200 people carrying signs with messages like “stop slop,” “it’s not too late to regulate” and “in a race off a cliff no one wins,” marched from offices of OpenAI to Anthropic and Google DeepMind to ask to their CEOs to collectively pause all new training of AI models.
The newspapers allege the ChatGPT maker is hiding evidence important to what could be a landmark copyright infringement trial over how OpenAI and its business partner, Microsoft, built their AI technologies using millions of news articles. At issue is whether AI chatbots are unfairly competing as an information source, siphoning off web traffic without doing the journalistic work involved in gathering the news.
Since last July, when San Francisco granted 30,000 employees access to Microsoft Copilot, an OpenAI-powered chatbot, more than 40 city departments have had access to AI to help with city services, according to data the city shared with the Chronicle.
Between last July and April 2026, more than 1 million messages were sent or received by city employees through Copilot, the data showed.
My updated summary of California AI laws and pending legislation.
A slate of new laws is set to go into effect on July 1. Among the changes coming are new rules impacting school restrooms, food labeling and restaurants, firearm sales and a minimum wage bump for scores of California workers.