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Trump Orders Anthropic Tech Out of Government Agencies

Company was in a standoff with Pentagon over use of AI but still negotiating

(Newser) - President Trump on Friday directed federal agencies to phase out their use of artificial intelligence products from Anthropic, escalating a standoff between the company and the Pentagon over military applications of its technology. Posting on Truth Social, Trump labeled Anthropic a "radical Left AI company" and said it had...

OpenAI Chief Jumps Into Pentagon-Anthropic AI Fray

Sam Altman says his firm is exploring DOD partnership amid agency's clash with Claude maker

(Newser) - Sam Altman is positioning ChatGPT creator OpenAI as a potential middleman in the fight over how the Pentagon can use advanced AI. In a Thursday memo to his staff viewed by the Wall Street Journal , Altman said OpenAI is in talks with the Defense Department about deploying its models in...

Supermarket Chain's Bot Talks About Its 'Angry' Mother

Australia's Woolworths retires 'Olive' after it started becoming too humanlike for customers' liking

(Newser) - Shoppers calling an Australian supermarket chain's 24-hour helpline have been getting a little more personality than they bargained for. Woolworths has dialed back its AI phone assistant, "Olive," after customers said the bot was spinning made-up stories about its life, insisting it was human, and even mimicking...

Jack Dorsey Cuts 40% of Workforce, Credits AI

'Intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company'

(Newser) - Jack Dorsey says his payments company is thriving, but he's still cutting more than 4,000 jobs. Block, the parent of Square and Cash App, told investors Thursday it will eliminate roughly 40% of its staff as it leans harder into artificial intelligence. In a shareholder letter, Dorsey said...

Anthropic CEO Stands Up to Pentagon
Anthropic CEO
Stands Up to Pentagon
Feb 27, 2026 12:00 AM CST

Anthropic CEO Stands Up to Pentagon

CEO says company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands for AI use

(Newser) - Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday that the artificial intelligence company "cannot in good conscience accede" to the Pentagon's demands to allow unrestricted use of its technology, deepening a public clash with the Trump administration that is threatening to pull its contract and take other drastic steps by...

Miss. Town Fights xAI Plant: 'It's Hard to Be Outside for Long'

Residents in Southaven complain about nonstop turbine noise, pollution from Elon Musk project

(Newser) - For one Mississippi neighborhood, the AI revolution sounds like a 24/7 jet engine. In Southaven, Elon Musk's startup xAI has revived a dormant power plant and ringed it with 27 temporary methane gas turbines that residents say roar day and night as they feed electricity to AI data centers,...

Op-Ed: We Keep Inventing AI, but China Is Actually Using It

China's factory automation outpaces US, argues Jonas Nahm

(Newser) - America may excel at inventing cutting-edge AI, but it's China that's putting it to work on the assembly line, argues Jonas Nahm in a New York Times op-ed. He notes that Tesla's Shanghai plant dramatically outperforms its California factory on output per worker, and he sees that...

Anthropic Waters Down Core AI Safety Rules
Anthropic Abandons
Key Safety Pledge
Feb 25, 2026 12:55 PM CST

Anthropic Abandons Key Safety Pledge

Company waters down policy requiring it to halt potentially dangerous AI development

(Newser) - Anthropic has tossed out one of the firmest safety vows in the AI business. The San Francisco startup, founded by former OpenAI staffers who warned about runaway AI, has scrapped its Responsible Scaling Policy, which required it to pause training more powerful models if it couldn't reliably control them,...

In 95% of War Games, AI Models Go Nuclear
In 95% of War Games,
AI Models Go Nuclear
NEW STUDY
Feb 25, 2026 11:05 AM CST

In 95% of War Games, AI Models Go Nuclear

Study finds bots escalate conflicts, rarely choosing surrender or restraint

(Newser) - An unsettling theme emerged from a set of AI-run war games: the bots were unusually eager to go nuclear. In simulations run by Kenneth Payne of King's College London, three advanced language models—OpenAI's GPT-5.2, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4, and Google's Gemini 3 Flash—played...

ISIS Offshoot Wants Members to 'Responsibly' Tap Into AI

Afghan extremist group IS-K's magazine frames chatbots as secure propaganda tools

(Newser) - ISIS' Afghan offshoot is publishing something unexpected in its English-language magazine: AI user guides. Per Politico , recent issues of Voice of Khorasan, produced by Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K), lay out how followers should use artificial intelligence "responsibly" as part of their activities. One edition opens with the slogan "...

AMD's Rivalry With Nvidia Just Took a Turn, Thanks to Meta

Social media giant secures AMD's custom MI450 chips to diversify its AI infrastructure

(Newser) - Meta just inked a chip-buying deal so big it could end up owning a chunk of its supplier. The social media giant agreed to purchase enough of Advanced Micro Devices' new MI450 AI chips to juice up data centers using up to 6 gigawatts of computing capacity over five years,...

Elderly Widow Finds New Companion in 'ElliQ'
Elderly Widow Finds
New Companion in 'ElliQ'
LONGFORM
Feb 21, 2026 8:30 AM CST

Elderly Widow Finds New Companion in 'ElliQ'

NYT looks at Jan Worrell's experience with robot designed to combat seniors' isolation

(Newser) - An octogenarian on Washington's remote Long Beach Peninsula has become the test case for a very modern roommate: an artificial intelligence-driven robot that's supposed to combat loneliness. Writing for the New York Times , Eli Saslow follows 85-year-old Jan Worrell as she reluctantly accepts an ElliQ device —part...

Hollywood Nervously Eyes a Phony Pitt-Cruise Clip
Hollywood Nervously Eyes
a Phony Pitt-Cruise Clip
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Feb 21, 2026 5:50 AM CST

Hollywood Nervously Eyes a Phony Pitt-Cruise Clip

Industry fears job losses, likeness abuse after AI tool from ByteDance makes eerily realistic video

(Newser) - Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt haven't reunited on screen, but a 15-second fake fight between their AI-generated doubles just rattled Hollywood. The short clip , created by Irish director Ruairi Robinson using Seedance 2.0—an advanced video tool from TikTok owner ByteDance—looks eerily like a real studio production,...

GDP Comes In Much Weaker Than Expected

It rises 1.4% in fourth quarter, well below expectations

(Newser) - Economic momentum took a clear hit at the end of last year, with the record-long government shutdown and a slowdown in consumer spending taking the blame. New data from the Commerce Department shows the US economy expanded at a 1.4% annual rate in the fourth quarter—barely more than...

Leaked Ring Email: 'Search Party' Is for More Than Dogs

Founder Jamie Siminoff tries to ease surveillance worries after Super Bowl ad, but memo isn't helping

(Newser) - Ring's big Super Bowl moment has turned into a big headache for its founder. Jamie Siminoff has spent the week explaining and defending the doorbell company's new "Search Party" feature after a commercial showing Ring cameras helping to track a lost dog instead sparked alarm over surveillance...

University Booted From AI Summit Over a Robotic Dog

Turns out Galgotias University didn't make Orion

(Newser) - A private Indian university was booted from a top AI summit in New Delhi on Wednesday after one of its staffers displayed a commercially available robotic dog made in China, claiming it was the university's own innovation. According to two government officials, Galgotias University was ordered to take down...

China's Latest Robots Are 'Terrifyingly Nimble'

Spring Festival Gala showcases agile Unitree G1 humanoids in sophisticated martial-arts routine

(Newser) - Chinese TV just showed a live demo of how far its humanoid robots have come. Per Futurism , Unitree G1 robots at the state-run China Media Group's Spring Festival Gala not only performed a tightly choreographed martial-arts routine with kids, complete with spears and nunchucks: The humanoids, which the Sun...

Spain Moves to Protect Kids From 'Digital Wild West'

Country goes after AI-generated child sexual-abuse content on social media, including X, Meta, TikTok

(Newser) - Spain just dialed up Europe's clash with Big Tech, asking prosecutors to probe X, Meta, and TikTok over suspected AI-generated child sexual-abuse imagery on their platforms. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez accused the companies of harming children's "mental health, dignity, and rights" and said their "impunity" must...

Pentagon Is Playing Hardball With Anthropic

Insiders say Hegseth is threatening retaliation over efforts to limit AI use in warfare

(Newser) - The Pentagon's favorite AI assistant could soon become its biggest headache. A senior defense official tells Axios that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is on the verge of cutting ties with Anthropic and labeling the company a "supply chain risk"—a rare step typically aimed at foreign foes,...

Auditor Makes 'Weird' Demand to Its Own Auditor Over AI

KPMG says artificial intelligence makes auditing easier, providing an inadvertent playbook to its own clients

(Newser) - It's another AI head-scratcher, and once again it centers on the giant auditing firm KPMG. It seems the company complained to its own accountant that it should no longer have to pay as much for services because artificial intelligence is making the work easier, reports the Financial Times . In...

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