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  • Sam AltmanAI

    Dating chatbot expert: ChatGPT subscriptions aren’t ‘really earning much so having erotic content will bring them quick money’

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • MicrosoftBig Tech

    Microsoft brings you Windows 11, now including AI updates where you talk to your laptop all day

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • ICELaw

    ICEBlock creator devastated by Google, Apple decision to remove app after pressure from ‘authoritarian regime’

    By Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • Sam AltmanBig Tech

    Sam Altman on AI bubble: ‘People make some dumb capital allocations’ from time to time

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Sam AltmanAI

    OpenAI says it’s worried about ‘doomscrolling, addiction, isolation, and … sloptimized feeds’ as it rolls out Sora social media app

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Claude code product manager Cat Wu, left, and Alex Albert, head of Claude relations, work inside Anthropic headquarters in San Francisco, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)AI

    Engineers buck against ‘vibe-coding’ label, saying responsibility still lies with the humans behind the code

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Sam Altman puts his finger to his lips in contemplation during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, May 8, 2025.AI

    ChatGPT went from homework helper to confidant to ‘suicide coach,’ parents testify in Congress after teen’s death

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Dario AmodeiLaw

    ‘We’ll see if I can hold my nose and approve it’: Judge hates $1.5b AI settlement with book authors so much he’s taking 2 weeks to think it over

    By Michael Liedtke, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • Sam Altman testifies in courtNews

    Parents suing OpenAI and Sam AItman allege ChatGPT coached their 16-year-old into taking his own life

    By Matt O'Brien, Barbara Ortutay, and others
  • MicrosoftTech

    Microsoft just revealed how much its flagship cloud platform makes—a whopping $75 billion a year

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • WorkerTech

    Laying off workers because of AI is more of a fashionable excuse than a real business imperative, study suggests

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • TrumpTech

    Trump’s ‘AI Action Plan’ ditches Biden guardrails, ‘red tape,’ wants chatbots to cut out their liberal bias

    By Matt O'Brien, Ali Swenson, and others
  • White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks speaks as President Donald Trump listens at an event for the signing of the GENIUS Act, a bill that regulates stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency, in the East Room of the White House, Friday, July 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AI

    Trump’s ‘AI Action Plan’ to mix tech industry wishlist with culture war attacks on ‘woke AI’

    By Matt O'Brien, Ali Swenson, and others
  • Matt MahanTech

    Liberal mayor proudly outsources part of his job to ChatGPT. Up next: running the city government

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Jason RugoloTech

    The techie who allegedly showed Sam Altman and Jony Ive a drawing of an AI device just got sued by his former employer

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press