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Trump awards Musk and other tech titans National Medals of Science

8 October 2026 at 17:43
President Donald Trump joined Michael Kratsios to award the Medal of Science to Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su and Sergey Brin amid announcements about new science funding.

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk receives the National Medal of Science from President Donald Trump at the Science: A New Golden Age Summit at the U.S. Institute of Peace on Thursday.

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk receives the National Medal of Science from President Donald Trump at the Science: A New Golden Age Summit at the U.S. Institute of Peace on Thursday.

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk receives the National Medal of Science from President Donald Trump at the Science: A New Golden Age Summit at the U.S. Institute of Peace on Thursday.

MAGA activists protest AI data centers at Big Tech headquarters in San Francisco

5 October 2026 at 21:55
The group, called Humans First, advocates for better guardrails on data center construction and AI in general.

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The "AI Data Center Revolt" tour bus used by Humans First in its 8,000-mile trip cross country parked in downtown San Francisco in front of Anthropic's headquarters Monday.

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The "AI Data Center Revolt" tour bus used by Humans First in its 8,000-mile trip cross country parked in downtown San Francisco in front of Anthropic's headquarters Monday.

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The "AI Data Center Revolt" tour bus used by Humans First in its 8,000-mile trip cross country parked in downtown San Francisco in front of Anthropic's headquarters Monday.

© Jared Perlo

The "AI Data Center Revolt" tour bus used by Humans First in its 8,000-mile trip cross country parked in downtown San Francisco in front of Anthropic's headquarters Monday.

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The "AI Data Center Revolt" tour bus used by Humans First in its 8,000-mile trip cross country parked in downtown San Francisco in front of Anthropic's headquarters Monday.

OpenAI launches always-on AI agents a day after apologizing for a hack by its bots

29 September 2026 at 19:03
OpenAI announced its new AI agent product, Dots, amid a barrage of controversy over AI agents that had gone rogue.

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At the OpenAI developers conference Tuesday, CEO Sam Altman announced new artificial intelligence personal assistant agents named "dots" to rival Meta's Muse.

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At the OpenAI developers conference Tuesday, CEO Sam Altman announced new artificial intelligence personal assistant agents named "dots" to rival Meta's Muse.

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At the OpenAI developers conference Tuesday, CEO Sam Altman announced new artificial intelligence personal assistant agents named "dots" to rival Meta's Muse.

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At the OpenAI developers conference Tuesday, CEO Sam Altman announced new artificial intelligence personal assistant agents named "dots" to rival Meta's Muse.

Google says its AI model gained unauthorized access to three outside systems

18 September 2026 at 21:37
Google on Friday disclosed the first known instance of its artificial intelligence software, Gemini, carrying out an undirected computer hack, weeks after similar disclosures by AI firms Anthropic and OpenAI raised security alarms about AI models going beyond the instructions of their human creators.

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Google said it did not consider the unauthorized logins to rise to the level of misalignment, the AI industry term for software going rogue or not following instructions.

Two researchers who left Anthropic and Google warn AI could become ‘uncontrollable’

10 September 2026 at 18:33
After Jacob Coxon roiled the AI industry with his viral departure from Anthropic, two more researchers are speaking out about their concerns over AI safety.

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Josh Engels, who used to work on AI safety research at Google.

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Joe Benton, who used to lead a safety research team at Anthropic.
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