Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication

A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.

Billionaire Palmer Luckey isn’t leaving California over the wealth tax

“It’s causing a lot of people to run who I don’t want to be running,” native Californian Palmer Luckey said. “But I’m planning on staying in California. I’m going to keep fighting it.”

Opera introduces a new web standard to let users deploy AI locally in their browser

The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models.

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Anduril, Qualcomm launch BlueChip, a new kind of US-made laptop

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey is vowing to bring computer manufacturing back to the U.S. and by that he doesn’t just mean assembly, but every individual component, some of which are exclusively made in China today.

Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing

An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.

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Databricks co-founder shares his secrets for winning big enterprises customers

Turns out selling to big companies isn’t about having the shiniest tech: it’s about hitching a ride on a giant’s sales team.

SpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo

SpaceX has locked in a binding commitment for roughly $40 billion in financing to pay for AI chips and related data center equipment, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday. In a statement, SpaceX called it the “largest committed GPU finan…

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Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell

The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a “nap,” and summersaulted on voice command.

Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing

MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.

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Arc browser sunsets December 22 as The Browser Company doubles down on Dia

Arc was fiercely beloved by a dedicated group of enthusiasts, but it never quite became the mass-market Chrome alternative its makers once envisioned.