AI coding agents with exploitable vulnerabilities, cybercrime rings operating like professional enterprises, and new scam tactics—including malicious QR codes.

With the rise of gen AI tools, offices have had to contend with a new scourge: “workslop” or low-effort, AI-generated work that looks plausibly polished, but ends up wasting time and effort as it offloads cognitive work onto the recipient.

Bank of America highlighted "transition strategies" that offer exposure to AI, but are more insulated from big swings in the sector.

The announcement comes just days after Grok drew global outcry and scrutiny for generating highly sexualized deepfake images of people without their consent.

An AI powerful enough to analyze DNA, file taxes, and grow tomato plants is being redesigned for everyday work, pointing toward life beyond chatbots.

A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

Elon Musk said retirement savings will be "irrelevant" in 20 years if he's right about an abundant future. Experts see challenges to that vision.

AI will “play a larger, more palpable role on the world stage” this year, says Dean Ball, primary drafter of America’s AI Action Plan. Ball, who has since left the White House, predicts that AI could be a top-five issue in the midterm elections—amid concern about issues like data centers increasing electricity prices and mental-health harms.

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new initiative called “Community-First AI Infrastructure” that commits the company to paying full electricity costs for its data centers and refusing to seek local property tax reductions.

Publishers Hachette Book Group and Cengage Group asked a California federal court on Thursday for permission to intervene in a proposed class action lawsuit against Google over the alleged misuse of copyrighted material used to train its artificial intelligence systems.

Former OpenAI policy head Miles Brundage debuts AVERI, an institute advocating for independent safety audits of top AI models

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is earmarking as much as $56 billion in capital spending for 2026, a stronger-than-anticipated projection that signals its confidence in the longevity of the global AI boom.