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Desperate Workers on AI: We're Digging Our 'Own Grave'

Highly educated gig workers are powering the training data behind big artificial-intelligence models

(Newser) - Some white-collar workers who lost out to AI are now being paid to help perfect the tech that sidelined them, often in ways that feel just as precarious. That's the uneasy reality documented by the Verge's Josh Dzieza, who follows lawyers, writers, designers, coders, and scientists now piecing...

Bezos Wants $100B for a 'Manufacturing Transformation'

Amazon founder targets global companies to deploy Project Prometheus' AI-driven tech

(Newser) - Jeff Bezos is reportedly trying to assemble one of the biggest buyout funds in history. The Amazon founder is in early discussions to raise around $100 billion for a new investment vehicle that would scoop up industrial companies and then use advanced AI to speed up their automation, people familiar...

Altman's Thank-You Note to Coders Does Not Go Over Well

Critics see irony in his applauding of their 'effort' as AI leads to job loss

(Newser) - Sam Altman's thank-you note to programmers landed like a pink slip. Amid sweeping tech layoffs and mounting anxiety over artificial intelligence, the OpenAI CEO on Tuesday posted on X that he feels "so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character," adding that it's already hard to recall...

AI Companies Make Move to Prevent 'Catastrophic Misuse'

Anthropic, OpenAI seek chemical experts to strengthen safety guardrails

(Newser) - An AI company that says it doesn't want its tools used for certain weapons is now hiring someone who knows weapons inside out. Anthropic is seeking a specialist in chemical weapons and high-yield explosives to help keep its chatbot Claude from assisting others in the making of chemical, radiological, or...

Suit: Woman Fired Lawyer on ChatGPT's Advice

Insurer sues OpenAI for $10M, claims chatbot illegally practiced law

(Newser) - OpenAI is facing a novel accusation in federal court: that its chatbot is effectively playing lawyer without a license. Nippon Life Insurance Company of America sued the ChatGPT maker in Chicago, claiming the AI tool encouraged a former disability claimant to undo a settled case, then helped her bombard the...

Suit: OpenAI Knew of School Shooter's Plans

Family alleges chatbot maker ignored employee recommendations to alert police

(Newser) - OpenAI is now facing a lawsuit over its decision to not inform authorities about violent ChatGPT user messages from the perpetrator of last month's school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC. The family of 12-year-old Maya Gebala, critically wounded in the shooting that killed 8 , alleges the teenage suspect described...

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...

Op-Ed: Boycotting ChatGPT Could Actually Work
Op-Ed: Boycotting
ChatGPT Could
Actually Work
OPINION
Mar 4, 2026 2:45 PM CST

Op-Ed: Boycotting ChatGPT Could Actually Work

Rutger Bregman explains QuitGPT has the hallmarks of an 'effective consumer boycott'

(Newser) - Dutch historian Rutger Bregman sees OpenAI as a "company that's bankrolling authoritarianism." If you disagree, you can stop reading here. If you're aligned in his view—that, among other things, OpenAI is behind a $125 million lobbying push that is trying to place all AI-related rulemaking...

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...

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...

Pentagon Got Help From Claude in Iran

Military deployed Anthropic AI tool even as it begins severing ties

(Newser) - Claude is still apparently welcome at the Pentagon, at least for now. The military used the AI tool from Anthropic in its attack on Iran over the weekend, according to separate reports in the Wall Street Journal and Axios . The move came hours after President Trump ordered federal agencies to...

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," "...

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...

BC Premier Suggests OpenAI Could've Prevented Shooting

Ottawa presses ChatGPT maker on safety failures, mulls new regulations

(Newser) - Canada's new artificial intelligence minister says OpenAI had few answers when pressed about its decision to ban the ChatGPT account of a future mass shooter without informing police of her concerning messages. Evan Solomon said he left a Tuesday meeting with senior OpenAI officials "disappointed," after asking...

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,...

Altman: Training Humans Takes Resources, Too

OpenAI boss backs clean energy development

(Newser) - "People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model," OpenAI boss Sam Altman said, "but it also takes a lot of energy to train a human." The OpenAI chief executive made the comment while in India for an A1 Summit when addressing...

Before Mass Shooting, OpenAI Flagged Teen's Activity

Company decided to ban Jesse Van Rootselaar's account instead of contacting police

(Newser) - OpenAI is facing questions over whether it missed a warning sign months before a deadly school shooting in a small town in British Columbia. In June, employees at the ChatGPT maker debated whether to alert Canadian police about user messages from Jesse Van Rootselaar that described gun violence scenarios over...

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