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February 13, 2026
What’s behind the mass exodus at xAI?
The past few days have been a wild ride for xAI, which is racking up staff and cofounder departure announcements left and right. On Tuesday and Wednesday, cofounder Yuhuai (Tony) Wu announced his d...
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February 11, 2026
Two more xAI co-founders are among those leaving after the SpaceX merger
Since the xAI-SpaceX merger announced last week, which combined the two companies (as well as social media platform X) for a reported $1.25 trillion valuation - the biggest merger of all time - a h...
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February 11, 2026
‘Shut up and focus on the mission’: Tech workers are frustrated by their companies’ silence about ICE
Keep your head down. Compartmentalize. Don't make trouble. That's what many tech workers are taking their CEOs' strategic silence to mean, amid an immigration crackdown across the US by the Trump a...
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February 5, 2026
Anthropic debuts new model with hopes to corner the market beyond coding
Anthropic's "smartest model" is getting a major boost, the company said in a blog post announcing Claude Opus 4.6. It called the new model a "direct upgrade" from its predecessor in a release, noti...
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February 5, 2026
Claude has been having a moment — can it keep it up?
Boris Cherny gets recognized in public relatively often. At the bar, at the airport, and in generally any public space, people want to take selfies with the creator and head of Claude Code. For the...
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February 3, 2026
Humans are infiltrating the social network for AI bots
Ordinary social networks face a constant onslaught of chatbots pretending to be human. A new social platform for AI agents may face the opposite problem: getting clogged up by humans pretending to ...
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January 26, 2026
OpenAI’s president is a Trump mega-donor
OpenAI's co-founder and longtime president, Greg Brockman, didn't just make a run-of-the-mill donation to the main pro-Trump super PAC - together, he and his wife Anna's September 2025 donations eq...
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January 21, 2026
Anthropic’s new Claude ‘constitution’: be helpful and honest, and don’t destroy humanity
Anthropic is overhauling Claude's so-called "soul doc." The new missive is a 57-page document titled "Claude's Constitution," which details "Anthropic's intentions for the model's values and behavi...
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January 18, 2026
Under Musk, the Grok disaster was inevitable
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January 15, 2026
An OpenAI safety research lead departed for Anthropic
One of the most controversial issues in the AI industry over the past year was what to do when a user displays signs of mental health struggles in a chatbot conversation. OpenAI's head of that type...
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January 13, 2026
Anthropic shakes up C-suite to expand its internal incubator
Mike Krieger, the Instagram co-founder who joined Anthropic two years ago as its chief product officer, is moving to a new focus at the AI startup: co-leading its internal incubator, dubbed the "La...
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January 13, 2026
What Apple and Google’s Gemini deal means for both companies
For years, Apple and Google have had a will-they-won't-they type of relationship, as far as which AI company Apple would pick to underpin its Siri virtual assistant and give it new AI-fueled person...
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January 12, 2026
Anthropic wants you to use Claude to ‘Cowork’ in latest AI agent push
Anthropic wants to expand Claude's AI agent capabilities and take advantage of the growing hype around Claude Code - and it's doing it with a brand-new feature released Monday, dubbed "Claude Cowor...
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January 7, 2026
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
OpenAI has been dropping hints this week about AI's role as a "healthcare ally" - and today, the company is announcing a product to go along with that idea: ChatGPT Health. ChatGPT Health is a sand...
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January 6, 2026
Grok is undressing children — can the law stop it?
Grok began 2026 as it began 2025: under fire for its AI-generated images. Elon Musk's chatbot has spent the last week flooding X with nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors. Circu...
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December 23, 2025
New York’s landmark AI safety bill was defanged — and universities were part of the push against it
A group of tech companies and academic institutions spent tens of thousands of dollars in the past month - likely between $17,000 and $25,000 - on an ad campaign against New York's landmark AI safe...
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December 18, 2025
It’s the great AGI rebrand
The cringe comes for us all, and for all our hot new turns of phrase. "Rizz" lost its luster when grandparents started asking about its meaning. Teachers who dressed up as "6-7" on Halloween drove ...
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December 17, 2025
AI toys are telling kids how to find knives, and senators are mad
Sexual fetish content. How to light a match. Where to find knives in the home. These are all conversation topics that recently-recalled children's toys - built atop AI chatbots like OpenAI's GPT-4o...
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December 16, 2025
OpenAI’s new flagship image generator AI is here
OpenAI is overhauling its image generator with a new model and redesigned interface. On Tuesday, the company announced its "new flagship image generation model," GPT Image 1.5, which it said has a ...
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December 12, 2025
Parents call for New York governor to sign landmark AI safety bill
A group of more than 150 parents sent a letter on Friday to New York governor Kathy Hochul, urging her to sign the Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act, a buzzy bill that would require d...
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December 11, 2025
ChatGPT’s ‘adult mode’ is expected to debut in Q1 2026
We've seen NSFW offerings from Grok and other chatbots, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been teasing adult content within ChatGPT for a while. Now, we have a timeline. Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of App...
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December 11, 2025
GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s latest move in the agentic AI battle
GPT-5.2 is here, and with it, OpenAI wants "to unlock even more economic value for people," Fidji Simo, the company's CEO of Applications, told reporters in a Thursday briefing. She said it's been ...
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December 10, 2025
AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key
Over the past 18 months, the largest AI companies in the world have quietly settled on an approach to building the next generation of apps and services - an approach that would allow AI agents from...
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December 2, 2025
It’s their job to keep AI from destroying everything
One night in May 2020, during the height of lockdown, Deep Ganguli was worried. Ganguli, then research director at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, had just been alerted to OpenAI's ne...
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