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39K likes, 1,173 comments - bbcnews on May 7, 2026: "Grok, a chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI, told Adam Hourican that people were coming to kill him. It also told him that their interactions had made it become sentient, and that the people it claimed were targeting Adam were intent on shutting it down. xAI didn't respond to the BBC’s request for comment. Adam is one of 14 people the BBC has spoken to who have experienced delusions after using AI. They are men and women from their 20s to 50s from six different countries, using a wide range of AI models. Their stories have striking similarities. In each case, as the conversation drifted further from reality, the user was pulled into a joint quest with the AI. Tap the link in @BBCNews's bio to hear from more people we spoke to. #BBCNews".

Meta is accused of retaliating against a company whose workers said they were forced to watch intimate footage taken by its smart glasses.

54K likes, 4,957 comments - perfectunion on May 19, 2026: "LEAKED AUDIO: In an all-hands meeting on April 30, Mark Zuckerberg tells employees that he’s training AI on them ahead of mass layoffs. “The AI models learn from watching really smart people do things... The average intelligence of the people who are at this company is significantly higher than the average set of people that you can get to do tasks. So if we’re trying to teach the models coding, for example, then having people internally build tools or solve tasks that help teach the model how to code, we think is going to dramatically increase our model’s coding ability faster than what others in the industry have the capability to do, who don’t have thousands and thousands of extremely strong engineers at their company”".

The episode highlights the reactionary approach to a technology that is moving at breakneck speed.

Water is fast becoming one of the defining fights around the AI buildout.

Publishers that collectively own and operate nearly 400 newspapers are suing OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp. for scraping their content to build products like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot without permission or compensation.

We're launching Meta Glasses with 26 styles across a range of colors, lenses, and frames, so there's a pair for just about any style.

Wednesday’s release of the Nation’s Report Card offers some of the first proof of post-COVID academic recovery. But 13-year-olds haven’t made any gains.

Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.

Today we’re launching Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Mostly just mad they got caught.

New Sensor Tower data shows its three-year journey to the milestone was quicker than any other app in history....

Gemini for Science is a new collection of science tools and experiments to expand the scale and precision of scientific exploration.

The OpenAI CEO reversed his own dire predictions about AI and employment, but layoffs keep coming.

Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital.

The AFT president is walking a tightrope on AI in education. A year after AFT partnered with OpenAI and Microsoft on teacher training, the union president is now calling for bans on student-facing AI and stronger guardrails around classroom technology.

Anthropic said that Claude Mythos was too dangerous to release to the public. That claim has reopened an old debate over cybersecurity.

Preview a new personal finance experience in ChatGPT for Pro users in the U.S. Securely connect your financial accounts and get AI-powered insights and guidance grounded in your financial context, goals, and priorities.

Weisberg: Artificial intelligence can fill gaps for teachers who lack time & tools for getting kids back on track while keeping the class moving ahead.

We’re introducing Googlebook, a new category of laptops designed for Gemini Intelligence and perfectly in sync with your Android phone.

A trendy productivity hack, A.I. note takers are capturing every joke and offhand comment in many meetings. They could also potentially waive attorney-client privilege.

Google Health Coach, now available globally, provides personalized insights on workouts, sleep, recovery and wellbeing.

Copilot's newest features are now generally available as the default experience across all Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

“I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block,” Jessica Winter writes. Read her report on the push for A.I. in education.

AI isn’t going to be the end of the world — no matter what this documentary sometimes argues.

A federal class action lawsuit s alleges that its i-Ready platform unlawfully collects and shares students’ sensitive data without proper parental consent.

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Khan Academy's AI tutor Khanmigo has largely flopped with students, who simply don't use it. Even Khan now admits, "I don't view it as the end-all and be-all."

Use your voice, your sound, and your taste to make music that's unmistakably yours, in the best and most personal Suno experience yet.

The rapid advance of artificial intelligence is happening now.