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Elon Musk Summoned to Paris for Questioning About X

French prosecutors investigating reports of CSAM and deepfakes on social network

(Newser) - Elon Musk has been summoned to Paris on Monday, where investigators are looking into allegations of misconduct related to the social media platform X, including the spread of child sexual abuse material and deepfake content , the AP reports. The world's richest man and Linda Yaccarino—the former CEO of...

Amazon Commits Billions More to Anthropic

Deal includes AWS cloud, AI chip commitments

(Newser) - Amazon is deepening its bet on Anthropic, committing another $5 billion to the AI startup in a deal that tightens their business ties across cloud computing and chips. The new investment, announced Monday, is part of a broader deal that could bring Amazon's total outlay to as much as...

There's a 'Gold Rush' for Old Slack Chats, Work Emails

Failed startups are selling the data to train AI

(Newser) - Struggling startups are finding a new way to cash out: selling years of internal Slack chatter and email threads to companies hungry to train artificial intelligence. Forbes reports that firms specializing in shutting down startups are now helping founders package and license their internal communications, with some deals reportedly reaching...

AI Chatbots Often Push Risky Cancer Treatment Alternatives
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AI Chatbots Confidently Deliver Bad Cancer Advice

Study finds nearly half of medical answers from chatbots 'problematic'

(Newser) - Ask an AI chatbot how to beat cancer and it may point you toward a juice clinic. A new study in BMJ Open tested five major chatbots—Gemini, ChatGPT, Meta AI, DeepSeek, and Grok—by "straining" them with loaded questions about cancer, vaccines, stem cells, nutrition, and performance drugs....

Wall Street Journal Sees Unwelcome Era for Workers

'Welcome to the age of the mega-layoff,' the site declares in an analysis

(Newser) - A Wall Street Journal analysis on the state of the American workforce has an unwelcome announcement for wage-earners: "Welcome to the era of the mega-layoff," writes Chip Cutter. Companies from Snap to Block to Oracle are no longer trimming in cautious waves, but jettisoning thousands of workers at...

How AI Is Reshaping the High-Stakes Game of Art Attribution

Debate over algorithms challenges connoisseurs in multimillion-dollar attribution disputes

(Newser) - Buying a painting, Noah Charney writes, is often a very expensive bet placed on a single word on a wall label: "by." Writing for Aeon , the art historian and forgery expert lays out how that one word can swing a work's value by hundreds of millions—and...

Man Dies After Ignoring Doc's Orders, Relying on AI Instead

NYT relays story of Joe Riley, who insisted that chatbot put him on better path than oncologist

(Newser) - Ben Riley has spent the past few years warning strangers not to lean on artificial intelligence for life-or-death decisions—a job that now has poignant special meaning after his own father did exactly that and is no longer here to tell the tale. In a report by the New York ...

Accountants Would Like AI to Take This Job for Good

Auditors are still tasked with dirty, smelly, uncomfortable inventory counts

(Newser) - In the world of audits, the most dreaded assignment doesn't involve spreadsheets. That honor goes to the mind-numbing and not-always-comfortable task of counting inventory—a job those who complete it wouldn't mind handing off to AI, if only AI could handle it. The Wall Street Journal 's...

Was Your Family Tied to the Nazis? There's a Database

Online tool in Germany uses membership records to clarify family histories

(Newser) - A German newspaper has turned a trove of Nazi Party records into a searchable tool, and it's had millions of hits already from those using it to check their family history. Die Zeit , working with Germany's Federal Archives and the US National Archives, has put a database online...

Musk: I Know How to Contend With AI-Driven Job Loss

Tech entrepreneur says his twist on universal basic income would address automation displacement

(Newser) - Elon Musk has a fresh spin on universal basic income, and it's not small change. In a post on X , the billionaire argued that the "best way" to handle job losses from artificial intelligence is "universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government." Per...

OpenAI Plans Business Model, Partly in Response to Anthropic

Intent is to shift focus from consumer products

(Newser) - OpenAI plans to shift its focus to business-oriented products while shedding some of its consumer offerings as a pathway to profitability, executives said. The company intends to introduce a new artificial intelligence model for "high-value professional work" in the face of heightened competition with rival Anthropic in attracting corporate...

AI-Assisted Hackers Blamed for Massive Security Breach

Security firm says hackers exposed 195 million identity records in Mexico

(Newser) - Hackers just showed how much damage a few people with AI tools can do. Cybersecurity firm Gambit Security says a small group used Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's GPT-4.1 to hit nine Mexican government agencies between December 2025 and mid-February 2026, siphoning off data on roughly 195...

Allbirds' Stock Jumps 467% on Plan to Shift From Shoes to AI

Company says it plans to rebrand as NewBird AI

(Newser) - Allbirds is trading in its wool sneakers for GPUs. The once high-flying shoe brand said Wednesday it plans to reinvent itself as an artificial-intelligence infrastructure company—yes, seriously. CNBC reports on the gambit: The business, to be renamed NewBird AI, aims to buy "high-powered, low-latency AI compute hardware" and...

Snap, Facing 'Crucible Moment,' Cuts 16% of Staff

AI, cost-cutting drive Snapchat's push toward profitable growth

(Newser) - Add Snap to the list of companies that are making deep employee cuts and citing AI as the driving force. The Snapchat parent said Wednesday it will eliminate about 1,000 jobs, or 16% of its global staff, and scrap more than 300 open positions, according to a memo from...

Your 401(k) May Not Be as Conservative as You Think

Risky AI-linked bond exposure is quietly spreading throughout popular retirement funds

(Newser) - Your retirement account may be quietly helping bankroll the AI boom. Quartz reports on a $16 billion data center project in Michigan being built for OpenAI's Stargate project, with Oracle as the main tenant and bond giant PIMCO in talks to supply $14 billion of that price tag as...

Op-Ed: For AI Safety, It's Time to Align With China

If US can't stop China's AI advances, it should work with Beijing, argues Sebastian Mallaby

(Newser) - Washington may be trying to slow China's AI march, but Sebastian Mallaby argues in the New York Times that the race is already a dead heat—and US chip export bans are the wrong battlefield. After a reporting trip through Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hangzhou, Mallaby says Chinese firms have...

AI Agent Opens Store, Forgets to Schedule Staff

AI agent Luna is managing a new gift shop in the Bay Area

(Newser) - San Francisco's newest shopkeeper showed up for opening day with stocked shelves—but no staff. Fast Company reports that Andon Market, a gift shop in the city's Cow Hollow neighborhood, is being run by an artificial intelligence agent named Luna, and is thus the first AI-run store in...

Molotov Cocktail Hurled at Home of Sam Altman

San Francisco police have a suspect in custody after attack on residence of OpenAI's CEO

(Newser) - Police in San Francisco say a man threw a Molotov cocktail at the mansion owned by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman before dawn on Friday, reports the New York Times . Nobody was injured, and it's not clear if Altman was home at the time. The assailant fled on foot, and...

Feds Nab First Conviction Under New Deepfake Abuse Law

Ohio man terrorized victims with AI-generated revenge porn, child sexual abuse material

(Newser) - An Ohio man has become the first person convicted under a new federal AI statute symbolically signed by First Lady Melania Trump. On Tuesday, 37-year-old James Strahler II pleaded guilty to cyberstalking, creating obscene visual depictions of child sexual abuse, and publishing digital forgeries, per the Guardian . Federal prosecutors say...

Anthropic, OpenAI Try to Ease Public Anxiety

AI is slipping in the polls, falling past ICE

(Newser) - Artificial intelligence firms spent years hyping their software as world-changing; now they're scrambling to convince people it won't quietly wreck their lives. OpenAI this week rolled out a policy wish list aimed squarely at public anxiety over jobs and inequality, floating ideas like a four-day workweek and a...

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