Tech
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White House chief of staff to meet with Anthropic CEO about dangerous new Mythos model, official says
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles plans to sound out Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about the artificial intelligence company’s new Mythos model, which has attracted attention from the federal government for how it could transform national security and the economy. A White House official, who requested anonymity to discuss the planned meeting Friday, said
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OpenAI’s policy chief says AI companies ‘need to do a much better job’ talking about AI as industry leaders face personal attacks
Dario Amodei warned last May that AI could wipe out half of entry-level white collar jobs. Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman predicted the technology would automate most tasks of the entire white-collar workforce in a year to 18 months. And recently, a report from Anthropic mapped out exactly what Suleyman warned about, and what Elon
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Illinois is OpenAI and Anthropic’s latest battleground as the state tries to assess liability for catastrophes caused by AI
OpenAI and Anthropic are backing opposing AI bills in the Illinois General Assembly that try to answer what should happen when AI makes something go terribly wrong. It’s the latest round in the companies’ ongoing feud over AI safety and regulation, as their CEOs have tradedinternal and public barbs over each other’s approach. OpenAI is
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Anthropic’s Mythos cybersecurity capabilities require urgent international cooperation, AI godfather Yoshua Bengio says
Yoshua Bengio, a computer scientist considered one of the “godfathers of AI” for his help in pioneering the deep learning systems that underpin today’s AI models, has been warning about the risks of the technology he helped to create for years. Now, he says new models like Anthropic’s Mythos demonstrate why international institutions urgently need
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China has ‘nearly erased’ America’s lead in AI—and the flow of tech experts moving to the U.S. is slowing to a trickle, Stanford report says
China has taken a bite out of the U.S.’s lead in artificial intelligence. The country has nearly closed its gap to the U.S. in AI bot performance, while continuing to best global competition in number of patents, publications, and rollout of robots, according to Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) 2026 AI Index
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Exclusive: Eigen raises a seed round from Benchmark to build the world’s first ‘mutual friend’
More than 600 million people watched the moon landing live in 1969. When NASA’s Artemis program returned astronauts to the lunar surface, an estimated 27 million tuned in, even as the world’s population had doubled. The shared cultural experience, the kind that once stitched strangers together, has quietly collapsed—and Paul Scherer thinks AI is about
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Harvey’s 30-year-old CEO says failing is a ‘good way to learn’ and says ‘destroying your ego’ led him to an $11 billion success
How do you build an $11 billion startup? For Winston Weinberg, CEO and co-founder of AI legal startup Harvey, it’s all about failure. “I think it’s really hard to figure this out without failing. You just have to fail a million times,” Weinberg said on a recent episode of Fortune’s Term Sheet podcast. The 30-year-old
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Gen Z turning its back on AI isn’t irrational — it’s a verdict on everyone who failed them
America has a problem with young people and AI. Gen Z has looked clearly at what the AI revolution is doing to their lives and rendered a verdict: the institutions that were supposed to prepare them for this moment have failed, the employers that were supposed to hire them have vanished, and the government that
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Canva debuts a new suite of agentic tools, as the design app quietly becomes one of the world’s most used AI services
Canva, the Australian startup that’s won over 265 million users with its design software, is launching a new suite of tools that combine visual creation and workflow automation, run by AI agents that respond to conversational prompts Dubbed “Canva AI 2.0,” the new platform of services lets users create and alter designs using natural language,
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Most of you are rejecting AI. The data shows you’re running out of time
The resistance is measurable, the anxiety is real—and neither will slow down what’s coming. A new global survey of 3,750 executives and employees across 14 countries finds more than 54% of workers bypassed their company’s AI tools in the past 30 days and completed the work manually instead. Another 33% haven’t used AI at all.