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The concession left DOJ asking the Washington court to reject a judicial consensus that now includes 20 district court rulings and one federal appellate decision — without identifying any distinct fac...

'16% of my monthly Pro+ allowance. Gone. For basically nothing'

What a thing says doesn’t tell you how it came to say it

Breaking: “Uber COO Andrew Macdonald said he’s not seeing proportional productivity gains from increasing AI costs.”

To avoid saying or implying that Trump lost in 2020, his judicial nominees have repeatedly engaged in rhetorical gymnastics.

We live in interesting times

Eliza Orlins is a Manhattan public defender and outspoken advocate for our city’s most vulnerable moms, dads, daughters and sons. Since 2009, she has represented around 5,000 New Yorkers who otherwi...

Fixating on questions of whether Altman is untrustworthy, or whether Musk is even less so distracts from a far deeper problem with AI

The great skeptic gets taken in

What do the story of Oedipus and your insurance premiums have in common? They are both driven by self-fulfilling prophecies. Philosopher and TED Fellow Carissa Véliz traces the hidden power of prediction, from Roman emperors who banned prophets to the AI algorithms quietly making decisions about you

John Oliver discusses AI chatbots, why they’re flirting with users unprompted and encouraging people to open soggy cereal cafes, and how their flaws can be genuinely hazardous to the public. Subscribe to the #lastweektonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens: www.youtube.com

What the AI cheerleaders don’t tell you

Four separate studies all point in the same direction

Trump has pushed unfounded claims of Tylenol use in pregnancy being tied to ‘a very increased risk of autism’

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the surge.

Shifting goal posts and new efforts at redefining the narrative

Things will get wild, but probably not immediately

"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.

Stanford computer scientist James Zou is exploring how AI can accelerate scientific research and peer review. His finding: AI excels at spotting gaps, but judgment calls still need humans.

“The problem comes down to how A.I. chatbots are fundamentally designed”

The writer Tyler Austin Harper (of The Atlantic, etc.) sent me a thread this morning, asking whether a mistargeting yesterday that killed nearly 150 school children in Iran could have been the result of AI.

The Trump administration is literally playing with fire.

Gary Marcus advocates caution about AI's risks. He told Business Insider that using OpenClaw was like giving your passwords to a stranger at the bar.

Happy half anniversary, GPT-5

Happy half anniversary, GPT-5

Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.

“Every election is vulnerable.” The threat of AI to democracy, the internet and even itself is getting “worse and worse” and there’s not enough agreement that it’s a bad thing, says author of Marcus on AI and professor emeritus of psychology and neural science at New York University, Gary Marcus.

Ricursive Intelligence, founded by two former Google researchers and valued at $4 billion, is among several efforts to automate the creation of artificial intelligence.

The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”

After each shooting, federal agencies claimed the drivers tried to ram agents with their vehicles. But the claim often falls apart under scrutiny.

The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.