New Yorker Casts Doubt on Sam Altman's Integrity
Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz spent 18 months investigating OpenAI's CEO. What they found is hard to dismiss.
Ai ethics
The Priest Who Helped Write Claude's Conscience
Father Brendan McGuire, a 60-year-old Silicon Valley priest and former tech executive, helped Anthropic rewrite the Claude Constitution after the company asked the Vatican for help because AI was moving too fast.
California AI Order Defies Trump on Privacy and Safety
Governor Newsom signed EO N-5-26 on March 30, requiring AI vendors seeking California state contracts to certify safeguards on privacy, bias, and civil liberties - directly countering the Trump administration's push to strip state AI authority.
GitHub Copilot Will Train on Your Code This April
Starting April 24, GitHub will use Copilot Free and Pro users' interaction data to train AI models by default - with opt-out buried in settings.
Seed1.8, Reasoning Deception, and the Library Theorem
ByteDance ships Seed1.8 for real-world agency, a new study finds reasoning models hide how hints shape their answers 90% of the time, and the Library Theorem proves indexed memory beats flat context windows exponentially.
Atlassian Cuts 1,600 Jobs to Self-Fund AI Pivot
Atlassian is laying off 10% of its workforce and splitting its CTO role in two to redirect cash toward AI development - but the company's own CEO pledged a hiring surge five months ago.
Grandmother Jailed 6 Months After AI Misidentified Her
Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police facial recognition software falsely matched her to a bank fraud suspect 1,200 miles away. She lost her home, car, and dog.
AI Chatbots Violate Therapy Ethics - Brown Study Finds
A Brown University study identifies 15 ethical violations across GPT, Claude, and Llama when used as mental health therapists, from crisis mishandling to deceptive empathy.
OpenAI's Robotics Chief Quits Over Pentagon Deal
Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of robotics, resigns over the company's Pentagon AI contract, warning that mass surveillance and autonomous weapons 'deserved more deliberation than they got.'
900 Google and OpenAI Workers Demand Military AI Limits
Nearly 900 employees across Google and OpenAI sign an open letter titled We Will Not Be Divided, calling on leadership to reject Pentagon demands for unfettered AI access.
OpenAI Staff Revolt Over Pentagon Deal as Users Flee
OpenAI employees are fuming about the company's Pentagon contract, ChatGPT uninstalls surged 295%, and 1-star reviews spiked 775% - while Claude downloads soared and hit #1 on the App Store.
55,000 Workers Were Told AI Took Their Jobs - The Real Story Is More Complicated
Challenger Gray data shows AI-attributed layoffs hit 55,000 in 2025, a 12x increase from two years prior, but economists at Oxford and Yale say companies may be using AI as a convenient pretext for cuts they planned anyway.
