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OpenAI amends Pentagon deal as Sam Altman admits it looks ‘sloppy’

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ChatGPT owner’s CEO says it will bar its technology being used for mass surveillance or by intelligence servicesBusiness live – latest updatesOpenAI is amending its hastily arranged deal to supply artificial intelligence to the US Department of War (DoW) after the ChatGPT owner’s chief executive admitted it looked “opportunistic and sloppy”.The contract prompted fears the […]

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Trump is using AI to fight his wars – this is a dangerous turning point | Chris Stokel-Walker

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The technology most people use only as a chatty tool for daily tasks is reportedly aiding US military aggression. And there is not much we can do about itThere are a lot of things that AI can do. It can sort out your shopping list, and it can keep your kids entertained when they’re mutinous

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Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’

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Speed and scale of US military’s AI war planning raises fears human decision-making may be sidelinedThe use of AI tools to enable attacks on Iran heralds a new era of bombing quicker than “the speed of thought”, experts have said, amid fears human ­decision-makers could be sidelined.Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, was reportedly used by the

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Does Trump want to wage an AI-powered war? – podcast

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In the past three months, Donald Trump’s White House has reportedly used AI twice to effect regime change – once in its capture of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and more recently to help plan the strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The most recent strikes coincided with the end of the Pentagon’s

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Anthropic’s AI model Claude gets popularity boost after US military feud

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Claude climbs to top of app store charts in US and UK after being blacklisted by the Pentagon over ethics concernsThe AI model Claude has surged in popularity after being blacklisted by the Pentagon last week over ethics concerns.Claude climbed to the number one spot on Apple’s chart of top free apps on Saturday in

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‘The digital colonization of flyover states’: how datacenters are tearing small-town America apart

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The rapid rollout of datacenters across the US is creating a divide between municipal governments and residentsWilmington, Ohio, resident Quintin Koger Kidd was so concerned last June with his local public officials’ alleged misdoings – open meeting violations and other discrepancies – that he filed a complaint in court to have the mayor and city

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US military reportedly used Claude in Iran strikes despite Trump’s ban

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Trump calls Anthropic a ‘Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about’US-Israel war on Iran – latest updatesThe US military reportedly used Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, to inform its attack on Iran despite Donald Trump’s decision, announced hours earlier, to sever all ties with the

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Instagram to alert parents if teens repeatedly search self-harm terms

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Feature for supervised accounts rolls out as Meta platform faces US trials over alleged harms to childrenInstagram will start alerting parents if their kids repeatedly search for terms clearly associated with suicide or self-harm.The announcement on Thursday comes as Instagram’s parent company, Meta, is in the midst of two trials over harms to children. Continue

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OpenAI to work with Pentagon after Anthropic dropped by Trump over company’s ethics concerns

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CEO Sam Altman claims military will not use AI product for autonomous killing systems or mass surveillanceOpenAI said it had struck a deal with the Pentagon to supply AI to classified US military networks, hours after Donald Trump ordered the government to stop using the services of one of the company’s main competitors.Sam Altman, OpenAI’s

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Trump orders US agencies to stop use of Anthropic technology amid dispute over ethics of AI

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Department of Defense and artificial intelligence company were unable to reach agreement before deadlineSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxDonald Trump said Friday he will direct all federal agencies to “IMMEDIATELY CEASE” all use of Anthropic technology.The Department of Defense and Anthropic have hit an impasse with

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