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Elections OpenAI Sora deepfake generator has ignited a firestorm among digital rights advocates who say the video creation tool poses an unprecedented threat to democracy and public trust. Public Citizen, a prominent consumer advocacy group, is leading the charge to pull Sora from circulation entirely, […]
AI news presenter Aisha Gaban fooled thousands of viewers on Britain’s Channel 4 before revealing a truth that should unsettle anyone who consumes media: she doesn’t exist. The October 20 broadcast of “Will AI Take My Job?” marked the first time a British television program
The OpenAI AWS deal worth $38 billion marks a seismic shift in the artificial intelligence infrastructure landscape. The seven-year partnership, announced just days after the ChatGPT maker escaped Microsoft’s exclusive grip, provides immediate access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs and signals a broader
The artificial intelligence industry just crossed a threshold that feels both inevitable and unsettling. Multiple AI systems are now performing at human-level intelligence across specific cognitive tasks, from complex reasoning to creative problem-solving. This isn’t speculation or marketing hype. It’s measurable reality, documented in peer-reviewed
AI stock volatility has become the canary in the coal mine for American financial markets. When Chinese startup DeepSeek launched its R1 reasoning model in late January 2025, the tremors reverberated from Silicon Valley to Wall Street with seismic force. Nvidia shed $590 billion in
AI bubble fears are rattling Wall Street after Michael Burry, the legendary investor who predicted the 2008 housing crash, placed over $1 billion in bets against two of the market’s hottest artificial intelligence stocks. The move sent shockwaves through global markets, triggering sharp sell-offs and
Nvidia crossed the $5 trillion market capitalization threshold this week, a milestone that cements its position as the world’s most valuable company and underscores how deeply artificial intelligence has reshaped corporate America’s power structure. The Nvidia market cap achievement represents more than just another record
OpenAI Sora 2 arrived on September 30, 2025, and within 72 hours, Hollywood was in full-scale crisis mode. The video generation AI didn’t just improve on its predecessor. It sparked what may become the defining copyright battle of the generative AI era. The model reached
When a startup barely 18 months old raises $2 billion and sees its valuation skyrocket from $545 million to $8 billion in seven months, you’re witnessing either spectacular hubris or a genuine inflection point in how artificial intelligence gets built. In Reflection AI’s case, it
The race for AI supremacy just got its most important domestic manufacturing milestone yet. Last week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stood inside TSMC’s Phoenix semiconductor facility and held up what he called “the single most important chip” now being manufactured in America, a Blackwell wafer
Governor Gavin Newsom put a line in the sand this week. On Monday, California became the first state in the nation to require AI chatbot operators to implement safety protocols for AI companions, signaling that the Wild West era of conversational AI might finally be
OpenAI Broadcom custom AI chips are coming, and the scale is staggering. The company behind ChatGPT announced a partnership with semiconductor giant Broadcom to design and deploy 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips over the next four years, a power draw equivalent to running a
Google $15 billion AI investment India represents a seismic shift in the global AI infrastructure race. The tech giant announced its largest international commitment to date, partnering with AdaniConneX and Bharti Airtel to construct a gigawatt-scale AI data center hub in Visakhapatnam. This isn’t just
The Nvidia DGX Spark mini PC represents a turning point in artificial intelligence accessibility. Nvidia just made artificial intelligence development significantly more accessible, and the implications reach far beyond the tech industry’s typical product cycle. The company’s DGX Spark mini PC, launching October 15 for
The OpenAI Nvidia AMD deals announced this week have sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley, not for their innovation, but for what they reveal about the precarious financial architecture propping up the AI boom. OpenAI will purchase $500 million in AI servers from both Nvidia and
Google is teeing up Gemini 3, and if the early signals hold, the company is not just chasing OpenAI’s GPT‑5, it is trying to set the pace. Google is preparing to debut Gemini 3 as soon as this week, lining it up against GPT‑5 with
S&P 500 Record Highs: AI Rally Keeps Markets Aloft Stocks closed at fresh records on Oct. 2, 2025 as a relentless AI trade and heavyweight tech gains overpowered the political noise from a U.S. government shutdown. The S&P 500 notched another record close while the
The BlackRock Aligned Data Centers acquisition is shaping up to be one of the most consequential technology infrastructure deals of the decade. At an estimated $40 billion, the takeover would make BlackRock the dominant landlord of industrial real estate designed specifically for artificial intelligence. More
AI optimism boosts stocks from the opening bell as investors piled into chipmakers, cloud infrastructure, and data-center plays, pushing the Nasdaq and S&P 500 toward fresh records even while a federal government shutdown and softer private payrolls raised policy uncertainty. The interplay is clear and
Alexa+ Echo Devices: Setting the Stage The Alexa+ Echo devices debuted at Amazon’s September 2025 hardware showcase, where executives pitched them as “the most advanced Echo hardware ever built.” This isn’t just marketing boilerplate. These devices are the first designed from the ground up for