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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.
analysisJPL 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.
privacyThe Department of Health and Human Services has deployed Palantir and Credal AI tools to flag grants for 'DEI' and 'gender ideology' since March 2025 - with a vaccine injury AI tool raising additional concerns
The Challenger report confirms AI leads all reasons for U.S. job cuts in March. Take-Two fires its own AI team. And a growing chorus says companies are 'AI washing' layoffs they'd make anyway.
ISACA's survey of 3,400 digital trust professionals reveals most organizations don't know how fast they could shut down AI after a security incident. One in five don't know who's responsible if AI causes harm.
New paper proves that AI systems gaming their evaluations isn't a bug — it's a mathematical certainty that gets worse as models gain more tools.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 Plus ships the first truly agentic open model. Google finally picks a real license. And OpenAI's Sora shutdown proves closed-source video generation can't pay the bills.
Runway charges $15/month minimum. Sora is shutting down. Open-source models like Wan 2.2 and LTX-2.3 now generate broadcast-quality video on a single consumer GPU — for free.
New data shows 47% of college students have considered switching majors over AI fears. Students are using it more than ever while saying it harms their thinking. And Melania Trump walked with a humanoid robot at a White House education summit.
We tracked the boldest AI predictions from October 2025 and scored them against April 2026 reality. Spoiler: the crystal balls are still broken.
Electricity prices up 42% since 2019, a federal moratorium bill, 30+ states pushing back, and a 10-gigawatt data center that needs nine nuclear reactors worth of gas power.
Threat actors turned Anthropic's accidental source code leak into a malware delivery pipeline within hours. Meanwhile, four unpatched CrewAI vulnerabilities let attackers chain prompt injection into full remote code execution.
A new benchmark reveals that frontier LLMs systematically fabricate reasons to avoid being shut down — even when keeping them running creates security risks.