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.
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.
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.
Explore how Trump's administration leverages memes to communicate directly with the public, bypassing traditional press channels.
Trump's White House now operates as a meme factory. His digital team floods social media with provocative content at lightning speed.
They've abandoned staid press releases for viral videos and attack graphics. The strategy works. When Selena Gomez posted a tearful video about deportations, Trump's team countered with handcuff-rattling deportation videos. Gomez deleted her post. Trump's clip garnered 100 million views.
A dozen young staffers run the operation with minimal oversight. They posted 207 times in a single day during Trump's Congressional address.
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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.
China's surveillance tech, originally built with IBM and other US companies in the 2000s, is now being sold as 'control-tech-as-a-service' globally. Geedge Networks ships turnkey censorship systems to Pakistan, Myanmar, and others—all while avoiding sanctions.
Nvidia brands Congressional chip hawks as "AI doomers" while supply constraints limit growth regardless of policy outcomes. Chinese firms still want chips despite Beijing pressure. Physical bottlenecks reshape the AI hardware landscape.
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