OpenAI Wants Legal Immunity for 100 Deaths — Anthropic Said No
OpenAI backs an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from liability for 100+ deaths — Anthropic, the self-styled safety company, publicly opposes it.
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Maine Became the First State to Ban Large Data Centers — 11 More Are Considering It
Maine's LD 307 halts permits for data centers over 20MW until November 2027, putting the state first in what is fast becoming a national legislative revolt against AI infrastructure.
The Developer Who Helped Build Tesla's AI Says We're Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'
Andrej Karpathy posted about a 'growing gap in understanding of AI capability' — and the three-camp structure of the debate reveals more about power than technology.
80,000 Tech Workers Lost Their Jobs in Q1 — Companies Blamed AI for Half
78,557 tech layoffs in Q1 2026, with nearly half companies explicitly citing AI — the first quarter where AI attribution reached this scale.
Meta and Broadcom Will Build 1 Gigawatt of Custom AI Silicon — Personal Superintelligence Is the Pitch
Meta and Broadcom extend their chip deal through 2029 with 1 gigawatt of custom 2nm AI silicon — the infrastructure Meta calls 'personal superintelligence.'
Musk Launches XChat, a Standalone Encrypted Messaging App, on April 17
XChat arrives Friday on iOS — end-to-end encrypted, no ads, no phone number required — and the WeChat super-app comparison Musk explicitly wants you to make.
800 Hungarian Government Logins — Including NATO Accounts — Surfaced in Breach Dumps
Bellingcat found nearly 800 Hungarian government email-password pairs in breach databases — including defense ministry and NATO-linked accounts using passwords like 'Snoopy' and 'Adolf'.
Hackers Stole 7.7 Terabytes of LAPD Files Including Witness Identities
World Leaks stole and published 337,000 LAPD files — personnel records, internal affairs documents, and unredacted witness identities — from the Los Angeles City Attorney's system.
Anthropic Paid $400 Million for a 10-Person Biotech Startup
Anthropic's all-stock acquisition of stealth startup Coefficient Bio values each of its roughly 10 employees at $40 million and signals an AI lab's bet that biology is its next frontier.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google United Against Chinese AI Copying
Three fierce rivals are sharing intelligence through the Frontier Model Forum to detect Chinese labs distilling their models — cooperation that looks principled until you notice who benefits.
AI Deepfakes Are Flooding the 2026 Midterm Landscape — And No One Is Stopping Them
With X's moderation reduced to a fraction of its 2020 capacity, AI-generated political deepfakes are proliferating ahead of the 2026 midterms with no effective deterrent.