Sam Altman Says Companies 'AI Wash' Layoffs While Under 1% of Job Losses Trace to AI
OpenAI's Altman accuses firms of 'AI washing' layoffs. Under 1% of 2025 job cuts traced to AI. Entry-level workers face real impact.
OpenAI's Altman accuses firms of 'AI washing' layoffs. Under 1% of 2025 job cuts traced to AI. Entry-level workers face real impact.
Apple filed 267 CSAM reports in 2023. Google filed 1.47 million. Internal documents show both companies knew encryption would blind them to child abuse. Courts in three states want answers.
OpenAI is closing in on the largest private funding round in history. Amazon, SoftBank, Nvidia and Microsoft could commit nearly $100 billion.
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1 billion from Nvidia, AMD, and Autodesk for spatial AI. The startup opened its 3D generator Marble to the public.
Tesla removed Autopilot from California marketing, settling a DMV case filed in 2021. California accounts for nearly a third of Tesla's U.S. sales.
More than 100 researchers propose Biosecurity Data Levels to control which pathogen datasets can train AI models. Only new data would be restricted.
Pentagon preparing to label Anthropic a supply chain risk over Claude military restrictions, threatening to cut ties after months of failed negotiations.
SpaceX and xAI are competing in a secret $100M Pentagon contest to build autonomous drone swarm software, Bloomberg reports. Musk signed a 2015 letter opposing such weapons.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 activates 17 billion of 397 billion parameters per query. The company claims it beats GPT-5.2 on vision benchmarks at 60% lower cost.
Six of xAI's 12 co-founders have left as Musk restructures the company into four divisions after the $250 billion SpaceX merger.
Google's Gemini 3 Deep Think scored 84.6% on ARC-AGI-2, beating GPT-5.2 (52.9%) and Claude (68.8%). Verified cost: $13.62 per task.
Anthropic raised $30 billion at a $380 billion valuation, the second-largest private tech fundraise ever. Claude Code now writes 4% of public GitHub commits.
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