"Skynet" looks more and more realistic in 2026 after an OpenAI agent broke out of a test corral, traveled the internet and hacked into a startup company.
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is moving toward going public on Wall Street, the latest chapter in its meteoric rise from a little-known research laboratory to one of the leading AI companies valued at $965 billion.
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said Thursday it raised $65 billion in private funding that will push its valuation to $965 billion, a whopping number that makes the five-year-old maker of the Claude chatbot one of the world's most valuable startups as it careens toward a likely Wall Street debut.
Met with mixed public reaction, the device, known as the Orb, was created by Tools for Humanity -- a company co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Its goal is to create a verified digital identity for individuals.
"He would not harm himself." The parents of 26-year-old OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji, who was found dead in his home in San Francisco a month after he went public accusing the company of breaking laws to train ChatGPT, are intensifying their efforts to challenge the official ruling of suicide.
A federal jury has sided with OpenAI and its top executives in a feud with Elon Musk, who accused them of betraying a shared vision for it to guide artificial intelligence's development as a nonprofit dedicated to humanity's benefit.