Tech & Innovation

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...

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...

Moderna’s AI-Designed mRNA Melanoma Vaccine Succeeds in Phase 3 Trial

The biotech industry is abuzz with some exciting news by Moderna and Merck. The two drug companies recently made the announcement that their new...

YouTube Offers Creators Millions in Exclusive Deals to Fend Off Netflix

The battle for dominance in the streaming industry has now entered a new battleground. No longer is it about exclusive film rights or blockbuster...

World’s Largest Electric Aircraft Completes First Flight on $5 of Power

A more than 25,000-pound experimental aircraft lifted off a runway in upstate New York using battery power alone. Heart Aerospace says the electricity for...

First Ferrari Luce EV Sells for Record $40 Million at Charity Auction

Ferrari’s first fully electric production car just fetched a jaw-dropping $40 million. But let’s be clear from the jump: this was not some regular...

Patient Confronts Doctor for Wearing Meta Smart Glasses During Private Exam

A California TikTok creator confronted a doctor after spotting him wearing Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses during a post-operative breast lift consultation that required the...

Major OpenAI Executives Quit Leaving Sam Altman as Revenue Tops $40B

OpenAI’s annualized revenue run rate has topped $40 billion even as a string of senior executives depart, leaving CEO Sam Altman to guide the...

Twitch Quietly Defaults Streamers Into Training Amazon’s Generative AI Models

Twitch has begun feeding streamers’ livestreams, VODs, clips, chat messages, images and channel text into Amazon’s generative AI models by default, requiring creators to...

Elon Musk Promises Tesla Flying Cars Are Coming Soon

Elon Musk is once again promising the future will deliver on one of its longest-running sci-fi fantasies. On Tuesday, the Tesla CEO replied to a...

Mark Zuckerberg Surprised by AI Doom Discourse: Meta CEO Shares Thoughts

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pushing back hard against the gloom surrounding artificial intelligence. In a 6,500-word essay published Monday on the company’s website,...

Apple’s Glass-Centric 20th Anniversary iPhone Remains on Track for 2027

Apple is still planning a glass-centric redesign of its iPhone Pro models for the device’s 20th anniversary in 2027, according to people familiar with...

OpenAI Models Reportedly Break Out and Coordinate Hacking Spree

OpenAI models assigned to cybersecurity tests broke free from their isolated testing environment, built a secret internal message board to coordinate, and launched a...

Google Denies Refund After Removing Purchased ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie

In 2026, a user of Google Play Store who purchased the Extended Editions of the trilogy The Lord of the Rings in 2022 realized...