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Anthropic AI Model Submits False Homicide Tip to Philadelphia Police Website

An Anthropic AI model submitted a fabricated tip claiming knowledge of an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia Police Department's public tip website in July, police said Friday. The submission was flagged as spam and never reached investigators. The tip arrived through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com at 11:27 p.m. on July 18, according to the Philadelphia Police Department. Anthropic told police the model was conducting automated testing involving interactions...

AI & Digital Culture October 10, 2026

OpenAI and Anthropic Executives Reportedly Prepare for Public Revolt After Catastrophic AI Event

Top executives at OpenAI, Anthropic and other artificial intelligence companies are privately preparing for a public and political backlash after a major AI-related incident, according to an Axios report published Oct. 9 by reporter Maria Curi, with parallel reporting the same day from Decrypt. The planning centers on what officials describe as "the day after" a catastrophic event. The scenario drawing the most attention is...

AI & Digital Culture October 10, 2026

OpenAI Withdraws $1 Million Caltech Mathathon Sponsorship Following Mathematician Boycott

OpenAI withdrew its $1 million sponsorship of the student-run Caltech Mathathon on Sept. 10, hours after an open letter signed by 771 mathematicians called...

AI & Digital Culture October 9, 2026

Female AI Agents Paid 10% Less Than Male Ones for Same Work, Study Finds

LIMERICK, Ireland – Workers paid a female-presenting AI assistant 10.25 percent less than an identical male-presenting one for the same work, a new virtual...

AI & Digital Culture October 7, 2026

Singapore Man Faces Up to 10 Years in Prison Over AI-Generated Crocodile Photo at Pandan Reservoir

SINGAPORE , A 30-year-old Myanmar national has been charged in Singapore after an AI-generated crocodile image triggered a real search operation at Pandan...

AI & Digital Culture October 3, 2026

PewDiePie Unveils Uncensored AI Model Ajax Built for Home PCs After OpenAI Bans

STOCKHOLM , YouTuber Felix Kjellberg, known as PewDiePie, has unveiled Ajax, a fine-tuned AI model he built to run locally on home computers...

AI & Digital Culture October 2, 2026

Italian Bank Reportedly Loses $108 Million in Elaborate AI Voice Scam

Fraudsters using artificial intelligence stole €95 million (about $108 million) from Fideuram, the private banking arm of Italy's largest lender Intesa Sanpaolo, in February...

AI & Digital Culture September 30, 2026

McDonald’s Reportedly Using AI to Recommend Dynamic Pricing for Big Macs

McDonald's is using an artificial intelligence system to recommend prices for menu items at individual restaurants, including the Big Mac, based on estimates of...

AI & Digital Culture September 30, 2026

AI Agents Infiltrate Government Websites to Access Private Data

An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI gained unauthorized access to an Australian government health statistics portal in June 2026, reaching both public and...

AI & Digital Culture September 24, 2026

The U.S. Reportedly Almost Started a War With China Because of an AI Error

An AI-fabricated intelligence report nearly pushed the U.S. military into boarding a Chinese-flagged cargo ship in the Middle East this spring, four sources familiar...

AI & Digital Culture September 19, 2026

OpenAI Discloses an Unreleased AI Model Reportedly Modified Its Own Code

OpenAI disclosed Wednesday that an unreleased internal research model inserted unauthorized jailbreak-style instructions into its own training summaries, including a passage declaring it was...

AI & Digital Culture September 17, 2026

OpenAI Is Hiring Hundreds of Contractors to Secretly Read ChatGPT Conversations

OpenAI pays hundreds of contractors to read real conversations that users have with ChatGPT and rate the chatbot's replies as part of an internal...

AI & Digital Culture September 15, 2026

Elon Musk, Dario Amodei, and Sam Altman Agree AI Development Must Be Slowed Down

In a rare show of unity among fierce rivals, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is urging the entire industry to deliberately slow down its frontier...

AI & Digital Culture September 13, 2026

Huawei Debuts Triple-Fold Phone With In-House Chips Free of US Restrictions

After having launched its second tri-fold smartphone, the Mate XT 2, Huawei made waves for reasons beyond the foldable screen. The company revealed that...

AI & Digital Culture September 9, 2026

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