OpenAI’s relationship with “chat” may be changing faster than most people realize. While the public conversation around ChatGPT has often treated the chat window as the product, a recent report from TechCrunch suggests that at least one senior OpenAI employee…
For a while, spotting AI “content creators” felt almost like a parlor trick. The earliest virtual influencers were so stylized—so perfectly lit, so uniformly smooth, so obviously “rendered”—that you didn’t need media literacy training to notice something was off. Their…
Walmart’s latest message to employees is unusually direct for a company that, like many retailers, is moving quickly into artificial intelligence. In internal communications and training materials shared with store and corporate teams, the retailer’s central claim is simple: the…
Public anxiety about artificial intelligence is no longer confined to boardrooms, developer forums, or the pages of specialist policy papers. It is increasingly moving into the arena where fears become votes: politics. A growing body of reporting and analysis suggests…
OpenAI is reportedly preparing what could be the most consequential redesign of ChatGPT since the chatbot first went mainstream—an effort that, according to the framing in recent coverage, is less about improving the model’s raw intelligence and more about changing…
AI has been in the headlines long enough that many people now assume a simple story: the models get better, the tools mature, and the mistakes should become rarer—or at least less damaging. Yet the first half of 2026 has…
OpenAI’s latest proposal is trying to solve a problem that doesn’t show up neatly in technical roadmaps: the growing sense among many Americans that AI progress is happening “to” them rather than “with” them. The idea, as reported, is to…
OpenAI’s latest security push, dubbed “Lockdown Mode,” is aimed squarely at one of the most persistent problems in deploying large language models in real-world settings: prompt injection. The idea is simple to describe and difficult to solve in practice. Attackers…
WWDC 2026 is shaping up to be one of those Apple events where the “big story” isn’t a single feature launch—it’s the feeling that the company is finally tightening the loop between what users ask for and what their devices…
Sriram Krishnan’s reported departure from his role as a White House AI advisor marks a familiar turning point in Washington: the moment when influence doesn’t necessarily disappear, but changes shape. According to reports, Krishnan is stepping down from the advisory…
The Trump administration is reportedly exploring a new model for how the United States participates in the AI boom—one that could involve taking an equity stake in OpenAI or structuring deals so that Americans share directly in the company’s upside.…
A proposed $2 billion data center complex in Shelbyville, Indiana, has become more than a planning debate about jobs, tax revenue, and infrastructure. It has turned into a fight over who gets to speak for the community—and what kind of…