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US health systems are launching branded AI chatbots, framing them as safer alternatives to ChatGPT for medical advice. But convenience and conflict of interest may be harder to separate than they appear.

Ukraine claims ground robots and drones forced Russian soldiers to surrender without a human soldier present. If verified, it marks a turning point in autonomous warfare with global implications.

OpenAI's $852B valuation is drawing skepticism from its own backers as Anthropic's ARR tripled in three months. The secondary market is already voting with its feet.

OpenAI acquired Hiro Finance, an AI-powered personal finance startup. Is this just a talent grab, or is the ChatGPT maker quietly building a financial services empire?

Inertia Enterprises just signed three agreements with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, licensing nearly 200 patents. Is this the moment laser fusion gets serious about the grid?

Machine-translated junk is flooding minority-language Wikipedia pages. AI learns from that junk. The result could accelerate the extinction of thousands of languages.

Google's Project Zero proved Pixel modem firmware can be remotely exploited. The fix for Pixel 10? Rust. Here's why that matters—and why the rest of the industry is watching.

Stanford's 2026 AI Index reveals AI adoption outpacing PCs and the internet, junior dev jobs falling 20%, and the benchmarks we use to measure AI progress are broken. Here's what the data actually says.

Booking.com confirmed a data breach exposing names, emails, addresses, phone numbers, and booking details. Hackers are already using the data for phishing attacks.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco residence was attacked twice in three days — first a Molotov cocktail, then a shooting. What does this say about tech power, public anger, and the real-world risks facing AI leaders?

Elon Musk promised minds merged with AI. Neuralink delivered a brain-controlled cursor. The gap between the two reveals something important about how Silicon Valley sells the future.

The Trump administration is battling Anthropic in court while simultaneously urging Wall Street banks to test its Mythos AI model. What does this contradiction reveal about US AI policy?