SoftBank's January donation to Trump's presidential library preceded a March federal land lease for a massive Ohio AI data center by two months, drawing scrutiny from Democratic lawmakers.
A new text-to-video startup is attempting to address the art-theft controversy by paying creators directly—but micro-payments and scraped training data complicate the pitch.
Meta contractors impersonated teenagers in a systematic effort to test how rival chatbots responded to harmful prompts about suicide, sex, and drugs.
As tech giants race to build AI infrastructure, skilled trades workers are divided on whether the lucrative jobs represent opportunity or complicity.
About 200 Stanford students walked out during Pichai's graduation speech in protest of Google's defense contracts and ICE ties.
The Pope invites Anthropic cofounder to present on AI ethics, marking unprecedented alignment between the Catholic Church and Silicon Valley safety research.
The Vatican's new papal letter frames AI risks—from labor displacement to autonomous warfare—as threats to human dignity, calling for ethics-first governance and slower adoption.
Over a thousand DeepMind London staffers seek union recognition to block AI contracts they say aid Israeli military operations and other harm.