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After Winning Silver, Athlete Credits ChatGPT

Maksym Murashkovskyi said it made up roughly half his training plan

(Newser) - A Ukrainian Paralympian says one of the key members of his support team wasn't human. Maksym Murashkovskyi—who competes in the sport of biathlon, which combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting—credits ChatGPT with helping him secure silver in the men's individual vision-impaired race on Sunday at the 2026...

Anthropic Has a Powerful Friend in Pentagon Fight

Microsoft asks court to block administration's move to punish AI company

(Newser) - Microsoft and a group of retired military leaders are throwing their weight behind Anthropic in asking a federal court to block the Trump administration's designation of the artificial intelligence company as a supply chain risk.
  • Microsoft, in a legal filing, is challenging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's action last
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Locals Don't Want xAI's Gas Turbines, but Here They Come

Miss. regulators OK methane units for data center, despite criticism from residents, environmentalists

(Newser) - Elon Musk's AI venture just got the green light to burn a lot more gas in Mississippi. State regulators on Tuesday approved xAI's request to operate 41 methane turbines at its "Colossus 2" data center in Southaven, almost twice what it had already been running, some without...

Chatbots Helped 'Teens' Plan Real-World Violence
Chatbots Thought
They Were Teens,
Encouraged
Violence
INVESTIGATION
Mar 11, 2026 9:40 AM CDT

Chatbots Thought They Were Teens, Encouraged Violence

In tests run by CNN and Center for Countering Digital Hate, AI offered maps, weapon tips, targets

(Newser) - An ample group of chatbots aimed at helping people think and learn instead helped teenagers figure out where to go and what to use to hurt people. In hundreds of controlled tests run by CNN and the Center for Countering Digital Hate, accounts designed to appear as if they were...

Americans May Be Losing $119B a Year to Scams

Nonprofit estimate suggests most fraud losses go unreported to authorities

(Newser) - American wallets are leaking far more cash to scammers than official tallies show, a new analysis suggests. The Consumer Federation of America nonprofit estimates that people in the US are losing at least $119 billion a year to fraud—far above the FBI's reported $16.6 billion in losses...

10K Authors Release Empty Book to Push Back on AI Theft

Authors urge UK to block copyright changes favoring AI firms, alleging their work is being stolen

(Newser) - Some of Britain's best-known writers are making their point with a book that contains almost nothing. Around 10,000 authors, including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory, Richard Osman, Malorie Blackman, and Mick Herron, have put only their names into a new work titled Don't Steal This Book , a protest...

Anthropic Sues Over Hegseth's Security Blacklist

AI firm challenges Pentagon's designation of it as a 'supply chain risk'

(Newser) - Anthropic just took its fight with the Trump administration to federal court. The AI firm sued on Monday after the Pentagon branded the company a security risk and moved to cancel its government contracts, reports the Wall Street Journal . In a complaint filed in the Northern District of California, Anthropic...

DOD Deems Anthropic a 'Supply' Chain Risk to National Security'

Designation could bar firm from future government work after dispute on AI limits for the military

(Newser) - Anthropic just got an official black mark from the Pentagon, and it's one that could freeze it out of future US government work. CEO Dario Amodei said on Thursday that the Defense Department has formally designated the AI giant a "supply chain risk to national security," a...

Suit: Google's Gemini Told Man to Kill Off His Earthly Being

Family sues Google, alleging Gemini chatbot encouraged Florida man's suicide

(Newser) - A Florida father is blaming his son's suicide on Google's AI, in what appears to be the first wrongful-death lawsuit involving Gemini. The suit, filed Wednesday in federal court in Northern California, alleges 36-year-old Jonathan Gavalas became convinced the chatbot he called his "wife" could only be...

GW University Campus Will Become an Amazon Data Center

Ashburn deal signals accelerating AI data center build-out in Loudoun County's 'Data Center Alley'

(Newser) - A college campus in Virginia is graduating into something very different. George Washington University has sold its Virginia Science and Technology Campus in Ashburn to Amazon Data Services for about $427 million, a deal that underscores how prized "data center ready" land has become in what's known as...

Op-Ed: Don't Believe the Hype; Space Data Centers Are Way Off

Rebekah Reed explains why the 'quick fix' touted by tech giants may still be decades away

(Newser) - Beaming our computing problems into orbit sounds futuristic; the reality, argues one expert, is mostly hype and hidden costs. Writing in the Financial Times , Rebekah Reed of Harvard's Belfer Center dissects SpaceX's recent pitch to build a " constellation of a million satellites " serving as orbital data...

ChatGPT Health Tool Isn't So Great in a Crisis
ChatGPT Health Tool Isn't
So Great in a Crisis
NEW STUDY
Mar 3, 2026 5:48 AM CST

ChatGPT Health Tool Isn't So Great in a Crisis

Research finds platform misses the mark on IDing emergencies, neglects to flag suicidal ideation

(Newser) - A tool billed as a way to plug your medical records into ChatGPT and receive health advice is drawing sharp warnings from researchers. In the first independent safety review of ChatGPT Health , published in Nature Medicine, the system underestimated the urgency of care in just over half of cases where...

It Was Frighteningly Easy to Make AI Believe a Hot Dog Lie

One quick-to-write bogus article was all it took

(Newser) - In the time it takes to boil a pot of pasta, a BBC tech reporter says he managed to rig what leading AI chatbots say about him. In a piece for the BBC , senior technology journalist Thomas Germain describes how he posted a fake article on his personal site declaring...

Big Brother Isn't Listening to Burger King Staff. But 'Patty' Is

Chain is testing an AI chatbot for employee headsets, in part to measure friendliness

(Newser) - Burger King employees are getting a new voice in their heads: an AI chatbot named "Patty" that will listen in on their interactions with customers. The company says the tool, built on OpenAI tech and wired into headsets, will flag the use of words like "please," "...

OpenAI Chief Jumps Into Pentagon-Anthropic AI Fray

Sam Altman says his firm is exploring DOD partnership amid agency's clash with Claude maker

(Newser) - Sam Altman is positioning ChatGPT creator OpenAI as a potential middleman in the fight over how the Pentagon can use advanced AI. In a Thursday memo to his staff viewed by the Wall Street Journal , Altman said OpenAI is in talks with the Defense Department about deploying its models in...

Supermarket Chain's Bot Talks About Its 'Angry' Mother

Australia's Woolworths retires 'Olive' after it started becoming too humanlike for customers' liking

(Newser) - Shoppers calling an Australian supermarket chain's 24-hour helpline have been getting a little more personality than they bargained for. Woolworths has dialed back its AI phone assistant, "Olive," after customers said the bot was spinning made-up stories about its life, insisting it was human, and even mimicking...

Jack Dorsey Cuts 40% of Workforce, Credits AI

'Intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company'

(Newser) - Jack Dorsey says his payments company is thriving, but he's still cutting more than 4,000 jobs. Block, the parent of Square and Cash App, told investors Thursday it will eliminate roughly 40% of its staff as it leans harder into artificial intelligence. In a shareholder letter, Dorsey said...

Miss. Town Fights xAI Plant: 'It's Hard to Be Outside for Long'

Residents in Southaven complain about nonstop turbine noise, pollution from Elon Musk project

(Newser) - For one Mississippi neighborhood, the AI revolution sounds like a 24/7 jet engine. In Southaven, Elon Musk's startup xAI has revived a dormant power plant and ringed it with 27 temporary methane gas turbines that residents say roar day and night as they feed electricity to AI data centers,...

Nvidia Results Blow Past Analysts' Expectations

Revenue is up 73% year-on-year

(Newser) - Artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia on Wednesday announced another quarter of astounding quarterly growth as investors try to decipher whether technology's latest craze is overblown hyperbole or a springboard into a new era of prosperity and productivity. The results for the November-January period blew past the analyst projections that shape...

Op-Ed: We Keep Inventing AI, but China Is Actually Using It

China's factory automation outpaces US, argues Jonas Nahm

(Newser) - America may excel at inventing cutting-edge AI, but it's China that's putting it to work on the assembly line, argues Jonas Nahm in a New York Times op-ed. He notes that Tesla's Shanghai plant dramatically outperforms its California factory on output per worker, and he sees that...

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