AI agents may soon be massed to invade social media, mimicking humans and spreading false stories, bullying and harassing users, and undermining belief in democracy and free society, a 22 January commentary in Science magazine from the BI Norwegian Business School warned.
An AI price war might be in the offing, a war that could shoot holes in major AI companies’ stock valuations.
Investors have sunk the market values of AI-related companies in recent weeks, worried that the technology isn’t producing bottom-line gains for businesse
The Trump administration responded to the Supreme Court’s ruling last week that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he imposed tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEPPA) in a 6-3 opinion that was seen as a blow to the White House’s economic agenda.
President Donald Trump has ordered the most airpower into the Middle East since before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as the U.S. prepares for a possible war with Iran that has hardly been explained by the administration and faced essentially no pushback in the news media or by politicians in Washington.
Newly released research found that the more children ingested ultra-processed food earlier in life, the lower their IQs developed into their childhood, raising new concerns about diets and their impact on the developing brain.
In a new $30-billion funding round, investments from backers including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Sequoia Capital have set the AI developer Anthropic’s value at $350 billion and put it on track for what is expected to be a wildly successful initial public stock offering later this year.
“Today I finally feel the existential threat that AI is posing,” Hieu Pham, an OpenAI developer, wrote in an 11 February post on X. “When AI becomes overly good and disrupts everything, what will be left for humans to do?”
The U.S. State Department announced last week that it will provide Manila with advanced missile systems and a slew of other weapons in Washington’s latest effort to thwart China in the South China Sea.
The IDF on Friday carried out new airstrikes across eastern Lebanon, killing at least 12 in Tel Aviv’s latest violation of the ceasefire reached in November 2024.