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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.
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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.

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.

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.'

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 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.

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.

Pope Leo XIV urged Roman clergy to resist the temptation of AI-generated homilies, arguing that sharing faith is something artificial intelligence will never be able to do.

Anthropic has launched 'Claude's Corner,' a Substack newsletter written by the retired Claude Opus 3 model, as part of a broader experiment in model preservation and AI welfare.

New papers show chatbot sycophancy causes delusional spiraling even in rational users, AI data analysts produce wildly different conclusions from the same dataset, and test-time scaling fails for general-purpose agents.

Industry insiders reveal a pervasive 'don't ask, don't tell' culture around AI in Hollywood, where studios use generative AI extensively while publicly downplaying it, screenwriters quietly rely on Claude and ChatGPT, and every 2026 Best Picture nominee allegedly used AI in production.

A wave of safety researchers and executives have quit OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI in the span of a single week, warning that the industry is moving too fast and abandoning its own principles.