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The Left’s Reductio ad Hitlerum Obsession with ICE Raids

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23.10.2025 40

Matt Obrien

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

Sexual content was a top draw for AI tools almost as soon as the boom in AI-generated imagery and words erupted in 2022.

17.10.2025 3

Matt Obrien

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

Among Windows 11's features is a voice mode that enables users to dictate “Hey, Copilot” to start chatting with their computer.

16.10.2025 3

Matt Obrien

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

“People will overinvest and lose money, and underinvest and lose a lot of revenue,” Altman said while touring a huge new data center in Texas.

03.10.2025 10

Matt Obrien

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

The company it would “periodically poll users on their wellbeing” and give them options to adjust their feed, with a built-in bias to recommend...

01.10.2025 2

Matt Obrien

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

Chatbots that can code are transforming the way software gets built and sparking a fierce race among top AI companies.

29.09.2025 2

Matt Obrien

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

Parents also testified about their teens being "groomed" by highly-sexualized chatbots.

17.09.2025 3

Matt Obrien

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

The wrongful death lawsuit said Adam Raine started using ChatGPT last year to help with challenging schoolwork.

27.08.2025 4

Matt Obrien

The Due Process Delusion: When Migrants Demand Rights They Don’t Have

20.08.2025 50

Matt Obrien

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

Companies are spending on new AI investments more than they are spending on AI as a worker alternative.

31.07.2025 5

Matt Obrien

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

The Azure cloud business is a centerpiece of Microsoft's efforts to shift its focus to artificial intelligence, but the company hadn't previously...

31.07.2025 10

Matt Obrien

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

Trump gave his tech advisers six months to come up with new AI policies after revoking President Joe Biden's signature AI guardrails on his first...

23.07.2025 10

Matt Obrien

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

By 2026, Matt Mahan wants about 15% of San Jose's workers trained to use AI for tasks including pothole response, bus routing and even crime-solving.

17.07.2025 8

Matt Obrien

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

Altman and Ive claim they chose the name "io" years ago, even though they saw prototypes made by a company named iyO, which is suing them and others.

11.07.2025 10

Matt Obrien

Xbox CEO says latest job cuts ‘follow Microsoft’s lead in removing layers of management’

Microsoft is laying off thousands of workers, its second mass layoff in months and its largest in more than two years.

02.07.2025 5

Matt Obrien

Anthropic’s landmark copyright ruling is a victory for the AI industry—but the company is still on the hook for piracy claims

A federal judge has ruled that Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books.

24.06.2025 3

Matt Obrien

Meta ramps up AI efforts by paying $14.3 billion for 49% of Scale and hires its CEO Alexandr Wang for ‘superintelligence’ team

Meta announced what it called a “strategic partnership and investment” with Scale, now valued at over $29 billion.

13.06.2025 10

Matt Obrien

Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly sneaking user comments to train Claude AI

Anthropic said in a statement that it disagreed with Reddit’s claims "and will defend ourselves vigorously.”

05.06.2025 9

Matt Obrien

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta just inked a 20-year deal with a nuclear power giant to fuel his AI ambitions

Meta's 20-year deal with Constellation Energy follows similar maneuvers from Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

03.06.2025 3

Matt Obrien

Trump administration fires top copyright official days after firing Librarian of Congress

Perlmutter’s office recently released a report examining whether artificial intelligence companies can use copyrighted materials to “train”...

12.05.2025 5

Matt Obrien

OpenAI’s CEO just ditched a months-long effort to abandon non-profit control over its for-profit business

The California attorney general's office said, “This remains an ongoing matter — and we are in continued conversations with Open AI.”

06.05.2025 7

Matt Obrien

Trump’s tariffs are the ‘No. 1 topic’ on the minds of robot makers hoping to beat China amid supply chain ‘inconveniences’

Humanoid makers are looking at a potential bright side to the geopolitical shifts.

02.05.2025 6

Matt Obrien

Visa wants to give AI your credit card to buy groceries and plane tickets

Visa is betting that what seems futuristic now could become a convenient alternative.

01.05.2025 10

Matt Obrien

Microsoft workers say they’ve been fired after 50th anniversary protest over Israel contract

AI models from Microsoft and OpenAI had been used as part of an Israeli military program to select bombing targets in Gaza and Lebanon.

08.04.2025 4

Matt Obrien

Federal judge denies Elon Musk’s request to block OpenAI for-profit conversion—but she’d be happy to hold a trial

U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled late Tuesday that “Musk has not demonstrated likelihood of success on the merits” in his request...

05.03.2025 10

Matt Obrien

OpenAI is combing through over a dozen U.S. states for ideal spots to establish ‘somewhere between 5 to 10’ Stargate AI data centers

Trump called Stargate a “resounding declaration of confidence in America’s potential” under his new administration.

07.02.2025 10

Matt Obrien

Elon Musk’s own businesses sit front and center as he says he and Trump have a ‘mandate to delete’ regulations with DOGE

Ronald Reagan tapped J. Peter Grace to lead a cost-cutting commission in 1982. Still, the chemical business magnate had fewer conflicts of interest...

14.11.2024 5

Matt Obrien

Anthropic accused of seeking to profit from ‘strip-mining the human expression and ingenuity’ behind authors’ work

The lawsuit alleges Anthropic committed “large-scale theft” in training its popular chatbot Claude on pirated copies of copyrighted books.

20.08.2024 2

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Boys are taking images of female classmates and using AI to deepfake nude photos. A landmark lawsuit could stop it.

The tools have been used by boys in schools to create images of female classmates that then circulate widely through social media.

17.08.2024 2

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