Sriram Krishnan, a senior White House policy adviser on artificial intelligence, is leaving his role at the end of June, marking a notable change in the Trump administration’s AI policy team. Krishnan announced his departure in a post on X, calling the opportunity to serve “the privilege of a lifetime.” He thanked President Donald Trump and said the administration’s leadership helped position the United States at the front of the global AI race. He did not give a specific rea

Equal AI is trying to solve a problem that many people in India deal with every day: too many unwanted, unclear, or time-consuming phone calls. From spam and scams to delivery updates, job offers, and financial service pitches, users often receive calls that interrupt their day. Existing tools like Truecaller and the government’s Calling Name Presentation system can help identify who is calling, but Equal AI argues that knowing a caller’s name is not always enough. Its AI ass

As artificial intelligence becomes more powerful, some thinkers are turning to ancient philosophy to guide how it should be used. From investing to education and technology leadership, Aristotle and Socrates are being brought into modern AI debates because they focused on judgment, reasoning and human purpose. The main idea is that AI should not simply give people faster answers. It should help people think better, question assumptions and make wiser decisions. In finance, la

ChatGPT has reached a major milestone in the artificial intelligence industry, becoming the fastest app in history to hit one billion monthly active app users. According to estimates from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, OpenAI’s chatbot reached this mark in May, only about three and a half years after launching in November 2022. This achievement puts ChatGPT ahead of major platforms such as Google Maps, TikTok, and Instagram in terms of adoption speed. Google Maps prev

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has declined an invitation from Sen. Elizabeth Warren to testify before the Senate Banking Committee at a June 11 hearing focused on artificial intelligence, China, export controls and American technological dominance. The decision has drawn more attention to Nvidia’s growing influence in the global AI race, especially as its advanced chips remain essential to training and running many of today’s most powerful AI systems. Warren had invited Huang to sp

Anthropic is warning that the AI industry may need something it currently does not have: a “brake pedal.” The company behind Claude says the world should have the option to slow down or temporarily pause the development of the most powerful AI systems before they move beyond human control. This warning comes as advanced models are beginning to play a bigger role in improving AI itself, raising concerns about whether society, governments, and safety researchers are keeping up

As artificial intelligence continues to reshape the business world, a new concern is emerging alongside the excitement surrounding the technology: cost. For the past few years, companies have focused heavily on increasing AI adoption, encouraging employees to use AI tools, and investing billions of dollars into developing more powerful models. Now, however, many organizations are beginning to realize that widespread AI use comes with significant expenses, particularly as toke

Florida has become the first U.S. state to file a lawsuit against OpenAI, marking a significant escalation in the growing debate over artificial intelligence safety and accountability. The lawsuit, filed by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, accuses OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman of prioritizing profits and rapid growth over user safety while concealing known risks associated with ChatGPT. The legal action alleges that OpenAI aggressively marketed ChatGPT as a safe and trust

Meta’s growing reliance on artificial intelligence for customer support came under scrutiny this week after hackers discovered a way to manipulate the company’s AI-powered support chatbot into granting unauthorized access to Instagram accounts. The security flaw, which has now been fixed, reportedly allowed attackers to take control of accounts without needing access to the account holder’s email address, raising broader concerns about the risks of allowing AI systems to hand

OpenAI has surprised the mathematics world after one of its internal AI models found a counterexample to a famous problem first proposed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős in 1946. The problem, known as the planar unit distance problem, asks a simple-sounding question: if a certain number of dots are placed on a flat plane, how many pairs of dots can be exactly one unit apart? For decades, mathematicians believed that grid-like arrangements were likely close to the best po

Hundreds of people marched through Vancouver over the weekend to protest Telus’s planned AI data centres, raising major concerns about water use, energy demand, land use, and the rapid growth of artificial intelligence infrastructure. The protest began at Waterfront Station, moved through downtown Vancouver, crossed toward Granville Island, and ended at Vancouver City Hall, where speakers addressed the crowd. The group behind the demonstration, No AI Data Centres in Vancouver

YouTube is taking a much stronger stance on AI-generated content as the platform faces a growing wave of realistic synthetic videos, deepfakes, and misleading media. In a major update announced this week, the company revealed that it will now automatically label videos that make “significant photorealistic AI” use, even if creators fail to disclose it themselves. The move marks one of the most aggressive transparency efforts yet by a major social media platform as generative

Anthropic’s acquisition of Stainless marks another important step in the growing competition around AI developer tools and agent connectivity. As AI moves beyond simple chatbots and into agents that can complete tasks, connect to business systems, and interact with outside software, the tools that help developers build those connections are becoming more valuable. Stainless, founded in 2022 by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray, specializes in generating software development

A California jury has ruled in favor of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a closely watched legal battle brought by Elon Musk, ending one of the most dramatic courtroom clashes in the history of the artificial intelligence industry. The federal jury in Oakland found that Altman, OpenAI, company president Greg Brockman, and Microsoft were not liable for Musk’s claims that they had betrayed OpenAI’s original nonprofit mission for personal and commercial gain. After less than two hours o

TELUS is moving forward with a major expansion of Canada’s sovereign AI infrastructure through a proposed cluster of artificial intelligence data centres in British Columbia. The project, developed with the Government of Canada and Westbank, is part of the federal Enabling Large-Scale Sovereign AI Data Centres initiative. Its goal is to give Canadian businesses, researchers, startups, public institutions, and government organizations access to powerful AI computing systems wh

Amazon is making a major shift in its artificial intelligence shopping strategy by moving away from its Rufus chatbot and putting Alexa at the centre of the company’s online shopping experience. The new tool, called Alexa for Shopping, brings Amazon’s AI assistant directly into Amazon.com, the Amazon app, and Echo Show devices. Instead of using a separate chatbot, shoppers will now be able to ask questions, compare products, set alerts, and complete certain shopping tasks thr

Digg is returning once again, but this time it is taking a very different approach from its earlier comeback attempt. The once-popular link-sharing site, originally founded by Kevin Rose in 2004, is now being redesigned as an AI-focused news aggregator. Instead of trying to directly compete with Reddit as a community forum, the new Digg is focused on helping users sort through the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence and identify the stories, voices, and conversations

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing cybersecurity, and Google’s latest findings show that AI-powered hacking is no longer just a future concern. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group says criminal groups and state-linked actors are already using commercial AI models to make cyberattacks faster, more advanced, and easier to scale. The findings have raised concerns among governments, technology companies, and cybersecurity experts about how powerful AI systems could be use

Microsoft, Google DeepMind, and Elon Musk’s xAI have agreed to give the U.S. government early access to their newest artificial intelligence models before they are released publicly. The agreement was announced by the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation, known as CAISI. The goal is to let government researchers examine powerful AI systems ahead of public launch so they can better understand possible security risks, weaknesses, and national security co

Google is expanding its generative AI search experience with new updates designed to make AI Mode and AI Overviews more useful, more transparent, and more connected to the wider web. As AI becomes a bigger part of how people search online, Google is trying to make its AI tools feel less like a replacement for websites and more like a starting point for deeper exploration. The company’s latest updates focus on better links, trusted sources, firsthand perspectives, and easier w