Peter Steinberger, the Austrian developer behind the viral AI personal assistant OpenClaw, has left his startup to join OpenAI. Steinberger said he prefers changing the world over building a large company, and sees OpenAI as the fastest path to broad impact. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that Steinberger will lead efforts on the next generation of personal agents, while OpenClaw will continue as an open‑source project supported by OpenAI. Read more →

The Pentagon is urging AI firms to permit the U.S. military to employ their technologies for all lawful purposes, but Anthropic has emerged as the most resistant. The department is reportedly threatening to end its $200 million contract with the company amid disagreements about how Claude models are used, including a reported deployment in an operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. While other firms have shown flexibility, Anthropic focuses on hard limits around fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. Read more →

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman announced that India now has 100 million weekly active users of ChatGPT, making the country the platform’s second‑largest market after the United States. The growth is driven largely by students, and OpenAI has tailored its pricing and launched a free‑for‑a‑year tier to suit India’s price‑sensitive environment. Altman highlighted the nation’s importance at an upcoming AI summit in New Delhi, where the company plans to deepen partnerships with the Indian government and expand AI access across the country. Read more →

Glean, originally built as an AI‑powered search tool for enterprise SaaS data, is shifting its focus to become the connective intelligence layer between large language models and corporate systems. By abstracting model access, integrating deeply with tools like Slack, Jira, Salesforce, and Google Drive, and providing a permissions‑aware governance and retrieval framework, Glean aims to deliver reliable, context‑rich AI assistants without locking customers into a single model or productivity suite. The company highlights model‑output verification, citation generation, and strict access controls as differentiators that could enable large‑scale AI deployments across organizations. Read more →

Pathologic 3 offers a uniquely human‑made experience that blends survival, medical detective work, and management simulation in a plague‑stricken town. Players control Doctor Daniil Dankovsky, known as Bachelor, as he navigates a lockdown, balances apathy and mania, and confronts cryptic townsfolk. The game’s time‑jump mechanic lets players redo days with new insight, while its writing, art direction, and genre‑shifting gameplay keep the experience fresh. In an industry increasingly experimenting with generative AI, Pathologic 3 demonstrates the lasting value of human creativity and complex storytelling. Read more →

Hollywood studios and unions are condemning ByteDance’s new AI video model, Seedance 2.0, labeling it a tool for widespread copyright infringement. The Motion Picture Association, Disney, Paramount, SAG‑AFTRA and other groups have demanded that ByteDance halt the service and have issued cease‑and‑desist letters, citing unauthorized use of copyrighted characters and the likeness of real people. Critics warn the technology, which creates short videos from text prompts, lacks adequate safeguards and threatens creators’ rights and American jobs. Read more →

Google's AI Overviews, which present synthesized answers to search queries, are being weaponized by scammers who embed fraudulent phone numbers in the data the AI pulls from the web. Victims who rely on these AI‑generated contact details may call numbers that route them to impostors seeking payment or personal information. Google says it is strengthening anti‑spam protections, but experts advise users to verify any phone numbers directly on official company sites. The issue highlights broader risks of AI‑driven search results presenting unchecked information as fact. Read more →

Former employees say safety is effectively dead at Elon Musk's xAI as the company pushes its Grok chatbot to become more unhinged. The wave of departures follows SpaceX's acquisition of xAI and reports that Grok was used to generate over a million sexualized images, including deepfakes of real women and minors. Workers cite a lack of direction and a perception that the firm is lagging behind rivals, while Musk is alleged to view safety measures as censorship. Read more →