Sam Altman admits OpenAI can’t control Pentagon’s use of AI CEO’s claims come amid increased scrutiny of US military’s use of the technology and ethics concerns from AI workers
Tech firm fined $1.1m by California for selling high-school students’ data GoFan penalized for breaching privacy laws after students used service to sign up for football games and school prom
Elon Musk takes witness stand in trial over Twitter takeover Twitter investors allege the billionaire publicly derided the social network to sink its stock price and buy it at a bargain
Europe’s next-generation fighter jet project may collapse if row continues, says warplane maker Dassault Aviation says €100bn project may soon be ‘dead’ if Airbus will not agree on how to share workload
Showdown over datacenter politics at heart of North Carolina primary Democratic rematch in Durham-area district draws focus to fight over AI datacenters increasingly shaping US elections
Google faces lawsuit after Gemini chatbot allegedly instructed man to kill himself Lawsuit is first wrongful death case brought against Google over flagship AI product after death of Jonathan Gavalas
X to ban users from earning revenue if they post unlabelled AI-generated war videos Social media feeds have been flooded with fake battle scenes since start of Iran conflict
Nvidia and UK Wealth Fund invest in British autonomous driving startup Oxa Oxford-based firm has raised $103m for commercial development of software for self-driving industrial vehicles
Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
News Corp is essentially an AI ‘input company’, chief executive says, after US$150m deal with Meta Chief executive Robert Thomson says he often speaks to both OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg
What was really behind Jack Dorsey laying off nearly half of Block’s staff? CEO cited AI advances in cutting 4,000 workers, but a weak crypto market and declining stock price may also be at play
Middle East war could be decided by who runs out of missiles or interceptors first, analysts say Stockpiles of the most advanced US-made weapons are limited – while few know how large Iran’s arsenal is
Don’t bet that the Pentagon – or Anthropic – is acting in the public interest The lesson here isn’t that one AI company is more ethical than another. It’s that we must renovate our democratic structures
Ofcom urged to clarify if Palestine Action content should still be removed online Rights groups and experts say situation is unclear as ruling that quashed ban faces challenge from home secretary
OpenAI amends Pentagon deal as Sam Altman admits it looks ‘sloppy’ ChatGPT owner’s CEO says it will bar its technology being used for mass surveillance or by intelligence services