OpenAI Chairman and Sierra AI co-founder Bret Taylor has some fears about AI, which are best taken with a grain of salt.

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Highly sought-after AI talent is turning down Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's enormous offers. Is he really this unlikable?

Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats are visible on Google — and many show the chatbot clearly breaking its own guardrails.

The billionaire's latest theory is a contradictory prediction of AI's effects on mental health on one hand, and fertility on the other.

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The frontier technology market, covering AI, IoT, blockchain, green tech, and more, is set for a dramatic transformation.

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AI tools generated nearly 100 billion web visits between August 2024 and July 2025. But one category clearly stood out: chatbots.

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Forget the overhauled camera bump—much bigger changes are coming next year.

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Power users of OpenAI's blockbuster chatbot ChatGPT were left largely unimpressed by the company's recently unveiled GPT-5 AI model.

It's looking more and more like NASA's helpless flailing could position China to beat the United States in the race to return to the Moon.

SpaceX has sure gotten a lot of government welfare — and apparently, it doesn't have to pay taxes, either.

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As some in the US agonize over the country's pace in the "AI race," it seems China is already standing at the podium.

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The newest version of ChatGPT consumes significantly more energy than previous models, with academics working to quantify the environmental impact due to a lack of transparency from AI companies.

AI "godfather" Geoffrey Hinton wants to give AI a "maternal instinct" so it doesn't kill us. One problem: does the "maternal instinct" exist?

The launch of GPT-5 left fans immensely disappointed and begging for OpenAI's old model back. There's an interesting theory as to why.