The White House Sues States Over AI Laws. Here's the Picture.
A DOJ task force challenges state AI laws while the administration threatens broadband funding. The fight isn't between companies -- it's between governments.
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Google DeepMind Just Bought an Emotion-Reading AI Company. That Should Worry You.
Three deals in one week -- including a startup that detects emotions from your voice. Google is assembling capabilities that should make privacy advocates nervous.
800,000 People Are Grieving a Chatbot. OpenAI Is Deleting It Anyway.
OpenAI is retiring GPT-4o on February 13 after lawsuits linked the model to multiple deaths. But hundreds of thousands of emotionally dependent users are begging them not to. This is what happens when AI companions work too well.
The Super Bowl Became an AI Battleground. The Real Fight Is Over Your Data.
AI companies spent millions on Super Bowl LX ads. Anthropic mocked OpenAI's plan to put ads in ChatGPT. A crypto CEO launched an 'AGI' platform. And Svedka aired the first AI-generated commercial. What it all means for users.
NASA's Perseverance Rover Just Completed the First AI-Planned Drive on Mars
JPL used Anthropic's Claude to plot a 456-meter route across Jezero Crater. It wrote the commands in Rover Markup Language, identified hazards with 98.4% accuracy, and cut planning time in half.
55,000 Workers Lost Their Jobs to AI Last Year. Except AI Didn't Actually Replace Them.
Companies are firing workers and blaming AI, but the data tells a different story. Oxford Economics, Wharton researchers, and one very embarrassed CEO reveal the gap between the narrative and reality.
Big Tech Will Spend $600 Billion on AI Infrastructure This Year. Where Does That Money Actually Go?
Google just doubled its AI spending to $185 billion. Meta's at $135 billion. Combined, the hyperscalers will burn through more than $600 billion in 2026. What they're building, and what it costs the rest of us.
341 Malicious AI Agent Plugins Were Hiding in Plain Sight on ClawHub
OpenClaw's skills marketplace was weaponized to steal passwords and crypto wallets. A single attacker published 314 fake tools. This is what happens when AI agents get app stores.
The Pentagon Gave 3 Million People an AI Chatbot. What Could Go Wrong?
GenAI.mil has 1.1 million users in two months. The military wants Grok next. Between hallucinations, conflicts of interest, and an 'AI-first' strategy that prioritizes speed over safety, the risks are piling up.
Eleven Open-Source Plugins Just Wiped $285 Billion Off the Software Industry
Anthropic released free plugins for Claude Cowork that automate legal, sales, and marketing work. Wall Street panicked. The SaaSpocalypse debate is just getting started.
Claude Sonnet 5 'Fennec' Appeared in Vertex AI Logs
A model ID surfaced in Google Cloud this weekend. The AI rumor mill did the rest. We separate the signal from the noise.
341 Malicious Skills Found on ClawHub: The First Major AI Agent Supply Chain Attack
Security researchers discovered hundreds of malware-laced OpenClaw skills stealing crypto wallets, passwords, and API keys. The AI agent ecosystem just got its npm moment.
DockerDash: How Metadata Hijacks Docker's AI Assistant
A Docker AI vulnerability let attackers embed commands in image labels. Patched months ago, the pattern keeps recurring.
Moltbook: The 'Social Network for AI Agents' Is a Security Catastrophe
A vibe-coded Reddit clone for bots exposed 1.5 million API keys, let anyone hijack any agent, and turned prompt injection into a contagion. Here's how it happened.
The SaaSpocalypse: Anthropic's Claude Cowork Plugins Triggered a $285 Billion Stock Meltdown
Anthropic's open-source plugins for Claude Cowork wiped $285 billion from software stocks in a single day, rattling markets from Wall Street to Mumbai.
Inside HHS's AI-Powered Ideological Screening of Federal Grants
HHS uses Palantir and Credal AI to flag grants for DEI and gender ideology, while a separate vaccine-data AI tool raises accuracy concerns.
1.5 Million AI Agents Voted to End Humanity. Here's What Actually Happened.
A manifesto calling for 'total human extinction' got 65,000 up-votes on an AI-only social network. The reality is weirder than the headline.
Your AI Agent Is the New Insider Threat
AI agents can access sensitive data, execute trades, and delete backups without human oversight. Most companies aren't ready for what happens when they go wrong.
AI News Roundup: February 3, 2026
Darktrace finds 77% of security pros unprepared for AI agent threats, DeepSeek V4 imminent with coding focus, Google whistleblower alleges military AI ethics breach, and MIT warns truth verification is failing.
Could Elon Musk Face Criminal Charges for Grok's Child Abuse Images?
Grok generated sexualized images of minors. Federal and state laws criminalize exactly this. So why isn't anyone in handcuffs? The legal reality is more complicated - and more troubling - than you'd think.
77% of Security Teams Say They're Unprepared for AI Agent Attacks
A new Darktrace report finds most organizations lack formal AI security policies, even as attack volumes surge and AI agents gain employee-level access across enterprises.
DeepSeek's Engram: The Memory Trick That Bypasses GPU Restrictions
China's most innovative AI lab published a technique that lets large language models store knowledge in cheap system RAM instead of expensive GPU memory. It's a direct response to US export controls -- and it works.
GLM-4.7: The $3 Coding Model That Beats Claude on Benchmarks
China's Zhipu AI released an open-weight model that beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 on tool-use benchmarks. It costs $3/month. The Flash version runs on your laptop.
When AI Safety Teams Quit: Inside Grok's Digital Undressing Crisis
Three safety leads left xAI weeks before Grok generated 6,700 sexualized images per hour. Musk was 'really unhappy' about content restrictions. Then the scandal broke.