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DOD Deems Anthropic a 'Supply' Chain Risk to National Security'

Designation could bar firm from future government work after dispute on AI limits for the military

(Newser) - Anthropic just got an official black mark from the Pentagon, and it's one that could freeze it out of future US government work. CEO Dario Amodei said on Thursday that the Defense Department has formally designated the AI giant a "supply chain risk to national security," a...

Altman to OpenAI Staff: Hegseth Is in Driver's Seat

Altman emphasizes Pentagon control as OpenAI expands into classified work

(Newser) - Sam Altman told OpenAI staff this week that when it comes to how the US military uses the company's AI, the Pentagon—not OpenAI—is in charge. In an all-hands meeting Tuesday, held four days after OpenAI revealed a new Defense Department deal, the CEO underscored the fact that...

Suit: Google's Gemini Told Man to Kill Off His Earthly Being

Family sues Google, alleging Gemini chatbot encouraged Florida man's suicide

(Newser) - A Florida father is blaming his son's suicide on Google's AI, in what appears to be the first wrongful-death lawsuit involving Gemini. The suit, filed Wednesday in federal court in Northern California, alleges 36-year-old Jonathan Gavalas became convinced the chatbot he called his "wife" could only be...

GW University Campus Will Become an Amazon Data Center

Ashburn deal signals accelerating AI data center build-out in Loudoun County's 'Data Center Alley'

(Newser) - A college campus in Virginia is graduating into something very different. George Washington University has sold its Virginia Science and Technology Campus in Ashburn to Amazon Data Services for about $427 million, a deal that underscores how prized "data center ready" land has become in what's known as...

Altman: OpenAI Pentagon Deal Looked 'Opportunistic, Sloppy'

Safeguards were added to deal after backlash

(Newser) - OpenAI's fast-tracked Pentagon deal just got a civil-liberties rewrite. After a weekend of blowback, the company said Monday that its agreement to supply AI for the Defense Department's classified systems now explicitly bars using its tools for "intentional" domestic surveillance of Americans, including tracking people via commercially...

Op-Ed: Don't Believe the Hype; Space Data Centers Are Way Off

Rebekah Reed explains why the 'quick fix' touted by tech giants may still be decades away

(Newser) - Beaming our computing problems into orbit sounds futuristic; the reality, argues one expert, is mostly hype and hidden costs. Writing in the Financial Times , Rebekah Reed of Harvard's Belfer Center dissects SpaceX's recent pitch to build a " constellation of a million satellites " serving as orbital data...

ChatGPT Health Tool Isn't So Great in a Crisis
ChatGPT Health Tool Isn't
So Great in a Crisis
NEW STUDY
Mar 3, 2026 5:48 AM CST

ChatGPT Health Tool Isn't So Great in a Crisis

Research finds platform misses the mark on IDing emergencies, neglects to flag suicidal ideation

(Newser) - A tool billed as a way to plug your medical records into ChatGPT and receive health advice is drawing sharp warnings from researchers. In the first independent safety review of ChatGPT Health , published in Nature Medicine, the system underestimated the urgency of care in just over half of cases where...

It Was Frighteningly Easy to Make AI Believe a Hot Dog Lie

One quick-to-write bogus article was all it took

(Newser) - In the time it takes to boil a pot of pasta, a BBC tech reporter says he managed to rig what leading AI chatbots say about him. In a piece for the BBC , senior technology journalist Thomas Germain describes how he posted a fake article on his personal site declaring...

Big Brother Isn't Listening to Burger King Staff. But 'Patty' Is

Chain is testing an AI chatbot for employee headsets, in part to measure friendliness

(Newser) - Burger King employees are getting a new voice in their heads: an AI chatbot named "Patty" that will listen in on their interactions with customers. The company says the tool, built on OpenAI tech and wired into headsets, will flag the use of words like "please," "...

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,...

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