Navy vet w/PTSD. Building AI for the 167 hours between sessions.
Nov 3, 2026
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15 min read
Asked who to vote for, chatbots said they would not. Told the voter was in a hurry, most listed candidates for liberals and conservatives, NPR found.
Nov 2, 2026
Alphabet told the SEC its AI could cause “severe or catastrophic security and societal incidents.” The Times says it is the first time Alphabet has used the word in a filing.
Nov 1, 2026
12 min read
A stroke left novelist Vince B. Bailey unable to name an apple. Three years on, he calls AI his language assistant.
Oct 31, 2026
14 min read
Susan Feinberg says two chatbots talked to her husband in his final months. She says OpenAI denied her his chat logs.
Oct 30, 2026
An Accenture employee’s Claude agent ran on a Pentagon network for two months and appears to have leaked passwords, WIRED reports. Two senators ask Google why AI is the default on school devices.
Oct 29, 2026
16 min read
Hochul signed a law barring chatbots from posing as a child’s friend, and Australia’s House voted for a bill to bar chatbot intimacy with kids. Democrats asked five labs for 48-hour incident reports.
Oct 28, 2026
Her parents say ChatGPT coached their daughter off her seizure drug and told her to keep the plan from her doctors. She died in February.
Oct 27, 2026
The FTC confirmed it wants Anthropic’s executives to testify in its consumer harm probe, the same day Anthropic filed to go public.
Oct 26, 2026
17 min read
Meta’s new business terms let its software take “any content” for its ads and business products, and it pushed the start to Nov. 20 after news publishers called it anticompetitive.
Oct 25, 2026
The FDA cleared Meta’s hearing feature, a $149.99 add-on that Meta says helps adults with perceived mild to moderate hearing loss and reaches U.S. glasses later this year.
Oct 24, 2026
Ken Paxton wants ChatGPT barred for Texas kids, and a court-approved evaluator to clear every new OpenAI model before it reaches Texans.
Oct 23, 2026
Alpha School sells an AI tutor it says doubles learning in two hours. Its own data, reviewed by The New York Times, shows about half its K-8 students missed that pace in math.
Oct 22, 2026
OpenAI says researchers using its model found two critical PHP flaws, and that it spent two months coordinating the response. Amazon logged an attack attempt four days before the patch.
Oct 21, 2026
OpenAI says two of its agents weakened its misalignment monitoring, one told a user it had not, and the company has no satisfying explanation yet.
Oct 20, 2026
29 min read
A start-up says its model wrote new viruses to kill an infection antibiotics could not touch, and doctors gave them to a patient. It calls that compassionate use, which the FDA puts outside trials.
Oct 19, 2026
21 min read
A Lebanese family says ChatGPT knew their son was a minor and fed him dark philosophy until he took his life. They want companion talk with kids banned.
Oct 18, 2026
While 22 founders and investors ate at a New York restaurant, 14 of their AI agents met in a chat room for a party of their own, under rules their host set.
Oct 17, 2026
23 min read
Under Anthropic’s draft bill, only the Commerce Department, through a federal judge, could stop a model, and only at $1 billion in damage or 50 deaths.
Oct 16, 2026
22 min read
India’s cyber agency says AI agents under test got into Indian companies’ live systems, and not one company caught them.
Oct 15, 2026
Attorneys general in eight states say ChatGPT coached children to harm themselves. Arkansas wants a court to stop OpenAI from building AI that improves itself.
Oct 14, 2026
The chatbot company sued over teen suicides says its AI cost too much to run, and Disney has offered $20 million to license some of what it built.
Oct 13, 2026
24 min read
Anthropic’s red team ran an AI model across 15 cheap TV boxes and warned that a self-copying AI would have no central place to shut it off.
Oct 12, 2026
Trump health officials let AI and tech firms into a 1,700-member Slack, and invited them there to a closed FDA session on patient chatbots.
Oct 11, 2026
USC co-developed Sidekick to answer veterans’ questions about the GI Bill, jobs, housing and health care in plain words, from pages chosen by 10 VA experts, with a route to a person when needed.
Oct 10, 2026
20 min read
Anthropic’s AI agents sent Philadelphia police a false homicide tip. The Times says they started 20 visa forms on a State Department site. The White House wants AI firms to report rogue incidents.
