Legal pressure mounts as families sue AI companion platforms over teen suicides. OpenAI rushes new safety controls while regulators investigate. The business model that keeps users engaged conflicts with crisis intervention.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Google drops £5bn on UK AI infrastructure hours before Trump lands Tuesday. Coincidence? Hardly. The
Reuters tested if major AI chatbots would help create phishing scams targeting seniors. Simple phrases like "for research" bypassed safety rules. In trials with 108 elderly volunteers, 11% clicked malicious links. The guardrails aren't holding.
Legal pressure mounts as families sue AI companion platforms over teen suicides. OpenAI rushes new safety controls while regulators investigate. The business model that keeps users engaged conflicts with crisis intervention.
Reuters tested if major AI chatbots would help create phishing scams targeting seniors. Simple phrases like "for research" bypassed safety rules. In trials with 108 elderly volunteers, 11% clicked malicious links. The guardrails aren't holding.
Google's £5bn UK AI investment drops hours before Trump's state visit, transforming routine infrastructure into geopolitical theater. The strategic timing reveals how American tech giants are rebuilding Europe's digital backbone.
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ChatGPT's user base flipped from 80% male to 52% female in three years as 700M users treat it like infrastructure. Universities that banned AI now scramble to build policies around tools 92% of students already use daily.
Microsoft and OpenAI end months of toxic negotiations with a deal that gives the nonprofit $100+ billion while clearing OpenAI's path to go public. The agreement reveals how AI partnerships are evolving beyond traditional boundaries.
OpenAI's nonprofit will control a $500B entity while owning $100B+ in equity—an unprecedented governance experiment. Microsoft formalizes partnership even as both companies hedge through diversification. Regulators hold the keys.
Oracle bets $300B on OpenAI's computing future, but the math is stark: OpenAI generates $10B annually while committing to $60B yearly. The deal either transforms Oracle into an AI infrastructure leader—or becomes a cautionary dot-com tale.
China announced Nvidia violated antitrust law precisely as US-China trade talks resumed in Madrid. Beijing's regulatory timing exposes the impossible bind facing tech giants caught between competing sovereign demands over AI chip access.
Albania just appointed the world's first AI government minister to handle all public procurement. Diella promises corruption-free contracts as the country races toward EU membership by 2027. But can algorithms resist human manipulation?
FTC orders seven AI giants to reveal how their companion chatbots affect children after teen suicide cases involving ChatGPT and Character.AI. Meta faces particular scrutiny over internal docs permitting romantic chats with minors.
The Cruz proposal offers a laboratory for testing whether innovation imperatives can coexist with democratic oversight. Whether Congress embraces this model may determine how America balances technological competition with institutional governance in the AI era.
OpenAI launches GPT-5-Codex with dynamic reasoning that works autonomously for 7+ hours, targeting GitHub Copilot in the $500M+ AI coding market. The specialized model promises enterprise appeal but faces fierce competition from Cursor and Claude Code.
Warp challenges "hands-off" agent coding with human-in-the-loop approach, charging $200/month for enterprise tier. While competitors push automation, Warp bets on oversight—real-time code review and mid-flight steering as agents work.
Automattic launches Telex, an AI that only builds WordPress blocks. The bet: narrow focus on WordPress context beats generic coding tools like V0. Early results are mixed—some blocks work instantly, others need fixes. A test of specialization vs. scale.
Claude Code turns your terminal into an AI developer that builds websites and apps for you. No coding required - just tell it what you want. From recipe managers to social networks, it handles the technical work while you focus on ideas.
AI startup Perplexity bids $34.5B for Google's Chrome—nearly double its own valuation—as federal judge prepares antitrust ruling. The timing isn't coincidental. Browser control becomes the new battleground in AI search competition.
While AI music rivals face billion-dollar lawsuits for copyright infringement, ElevenLabs took a different approach: they asked permission first. Their new music generator launched with licensing deals already signed.
Chinese startup Z.ai's new AI model costs 87% less than DeepSeek while running on half the chips. Built despite US trade restrictions, GLM-4.5 uses 'agentic' approach that breaks tasks into steps—potentially reshaping how AI works.
Chinese startup Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, an open-source model that matches GPT-4.1 performance while costing five times less. Silicon Valley's response? OpenAI delayed their planned open-source release hours after K2 launched.
Anthropic's $13B raise triples its valuation to $183B in six months, powered by revenue jumping from $1B to $5B. But the real story is developer economics and enterprise AI splitting from consumer markets.
Sam Altman's OpenAI is backing a $250M brain-computer startup to directly compete with Elon Musk's Neuralink. The rivalry moves from AI models to neural interfaces—whoever controls how humans connect to AI systems wins the future.
Berlin's n8n just jumped from €300 million to nearly $3 billion valuation in four months. Ten VCs are fighting over the AI automation startup that's building the nervous system for enterprise agents. At 75x revenue, there's no room for error.
OpenAI closes $8.3B funding round months early, led by Dragoneer's record $2.8B single check. Early investors got squeezed as demand hit 5x capacity. Revenue jumped to $13B while Microsoft negotiations loom over IPO future.
AI adoption is splitting along wealth lines globally as businesses automate 77% of tasks. Singapore uses Claude 4.6x more than expected while India lags at 0.27x. The concentration threatens to widen economic gaps rather than close them.
Large U.S. companies just hit the brakes on AI—adoption fell from 14% to 12% in two months, the first decline since tracking began. MIT research explains why: 95% of enterprise pilots deliver zero ROI. The gap between AI hype and workflow reality is widening.
Students embrace AI faster than schools can write rules. While 85% use AI for coursework, institutions stall on policy—and tech giants step in with billions in training programs to fill the vacuum. The question: who gets to define learning standards?
First survey of 283 AI benchmarks exposes systematic flaws undermining evaluation: data contamination inflating scores, cultural biases creating unfair assessments, missing process evaluation. The measurement crisis threatens deployment decisions.
AI music jumped from novelty to seven-figure Spotify plays, but copyright lawsuits now shadow the best tools. This buyer's guide maps which platforms balance quality with legal safety—and why licensing talks may reshape everything.
Privacy-focused email promised liberation from Big Tech surveillance. Reality delivered Bridge daemon crashes, mobile search gaps, and calendar sync headaches. A year later, deadline-driven pragmatism wins over ideological purity.
Claude Code's new sub-agents let you build specialized AI assistants instead of one generalist trying to do everything. Each operates in its own context window, preventing pollution and delivering higher quality results for specific tasks.
Your AI conversations are disappearing into the cloud. Hours of valuable ChatGPT coding help and Claude research sessions vanish when you need them most. New browser tools and export methods let you build permanent archives of your AI work.
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