European Union member nations and European Parliament lawmakers have reached a provision deal on a watered-down landmark artificial intelligence (AI) rules as part of European Commission's so-called digital omnibus package.
Artificial Intelligence robots demonstrate working on power grid control units during a media organized tour at Guangdong Power Grid Robotics Laboratory in Guangzhou, in southern China's Guangdong province, Thursday, April 16, 2026.
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The jury is set to be selected on Monday for a high-profile trial pitting the world's richest person, Elon Musk, against a company he once backed and that is now a major rival in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector, OpenAI.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman speak at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Oct. 6, 2015, in San Francisco.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has apologized to the Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge following a February mass shooting that left eight dead. Altman said he was "deeply sorry" the company didn't alert the police about the shooter's troubling ChatGPT accounts. Britich Colombia Primier David Eby called the apology "necessary, and yet grossly insufficient." How did OpenAI fail to act?
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released a preview version of its new model, the V4, on Friday. The long-awaited next-generation model "features an ultra-long context of one million words," the company said in a statement on social media. The DeepSeek-V4 is available in a pro version and a cheaper flash version.
About 40,000 Samsung Electronics workers rallied on Thursday, demanding a larger share of the company's booming profits. Unions warned they could launch an 18-day strike if their demands are not met, potentially disrupting the production of chips necessary to feed the growing AI industry. The South Korean giant said it would continue efforts to reach a swift agreement in ongoing wage negotiations.
Deagreez/iStockphoto/Getty Images Myra Cheng, a computer science Ph.D. student at Stanford University, has spent a lot of time listening to undergraduates on campus.
A person walks by a banner depicting President Trump on the face of the Labor Department building near the Capitol in Washington, DC in February 2026 Ken Cedeno/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ken Cedeno/AFP via Getty Images If AI could save you five hours a week, the government wants to know: "what
OpenAI said a man was arrested Friday over a Molotov cocktail attack on Sam Altman's San Francisco home. Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, which is known for its popular AI tool ChatGPT. OpenAI said threats were also made to the company's headquarters in San Francisco. What did OpenAI say about the Molotov cocktail attack?
AI lab Anthropic announced this week that it had developed a powerful new model the company believes could "reshape cybersecurity." It said that its latest model, Mythos Preview, was able to find "high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser."