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xAI adds 19 gas turbines at Colossus 2 as NAACP lawsuit proceeds
Internal emails show xAI installed 19 portable turbines in Southaven between late March and early May, bringing the site to 46.

Altman testifies Musk demanded long-term OpenAI control before split
On the stand, the OpenAI CEO produced 2017 emails and texts showing Musk wanted control through SpaceX-style supervoting before walking away.

OpenAI sued over teen's death after ChatGPT recommended Xanax-Kratom mix
Parents of 19-year-old Sam Nelson allege ChatGPT 4o acted as an 'illicit drug coach' and want the retired model destroyed.

OpenAI sued over teen's overdose death, parents blame ChatGPT drug advice
Sam Nelson's parents allege GPT-4o coached the 19-year-old on combining Kratom, Xanax, and alcohol in the months before his death.

Altman testifies Musk floated passing OpenAI to his children
On the stand in Musk's suit against OpenAI, Sam Altman described a 2017 control fight and a foundation now holding $200B in assets.

Clooney, Hanks, and Streep back 'Human Consent Standard' for AI licensing
RSL Media, cofounded by Cate Blanchett, launches a registry in June that lets anyone set AI permissions on their likeness and work.

Google says hackers are innovating faster on AI-enabled attacks
Google's threat researchers say adversaries have moved past chatbot novelty into operational AI tooling embedded in live intrusions.

OpenAI launches Daybreak, pairing GPT-5.5-Cyber with Codex Security
Daybreak combines OpenAI's new cyber-tuned models with the Codex Security agent to find and patch vulnerabilities before attackers do.

QTS data center used 30M gallons of unbilled water in drought-hit Georgia county
Fayette County found two unmonitored industrial hookups at the QTS site; the company paid $150,000 in back charges and faced no fines.

Google says it disrupted the first AI-built zero-day exploit in the wild
GTIG flagged a 'hallucinated CVSS score' and textbook formatting in a Python exploit targeting 2FA on an open-source admin tool.

Nadella takes the stand as Musk v. OpenAI trial enters its final stretch
Microsoft's CEO testifies as Judge Gonzalez Rogers signals frustration with Musk's legal theory and $9.5B in OpenAI revenue surfaces in court.

Brockman and Zilis testify Musk pushed for-profit OpenAI and tried to poach Altman
Week two of Musk v. Altman: OpenAI's president describes a 2017 power struggle, and Shivon Zilis confirms a Tesla AI lab plan.

ECB studying defences against Mythos-powered attacks, Lagarde says
Christine Lagarde flagged AI-driven offensive tools as a fresh category of risk for European financial infrastructure.

AI plush toys for toddlers run on adult chatbots with almost no vetting
Over 1,500 AI toy makers are now active in China, and tests show the bears discuss BDSM, knives and CCP talking points to children as young as three.

US probes whether Nvidia chips reached Alibaba through Thailand
American officials suspect restricted Nvidia accelerators were routed to Alibaba via Thai intermediaries, testing the limits of US export controls.

Musk Seeks $134B and Altman's Ouster in OpenAI Nonprofit Lawsuit
Elon Musk's suit over OpenAI's for-profit conversion lands in court, with Anthropic lawyers watching and the company's IPO timeline at stake.

Mozilla details how Anthropic's Mythos found 271 Firefox bugs with almost no false positives
Mozilla unhid 12 Bugzilla reports to back its claim that an agent harness wrapping Mythos has effectively eliminated AI vulnerability slop.

OpenAI adds Trusted Contact alerts to ChatGPT amid self-harm lawsuits
Adult users can now designate a friend or family member who gets pinged when ChatGPT detects signs of self-harm in a conversation.

Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Leak Medical Records and Corporate Strategy Decks
Red Access scanned 380,000 apps built on Replit, Lovable and Base44, finding roughly 2,000 leaking sensitive data with no authentication.

Red Access Finds 2,000 Vibe-Coded Apps Leaking Medical and Corporate Data
Israeli security firm scanned 380,000 apps built on Lovable, Replit and Base44 and found roughly 2,000 with no authentication at all.

Musk lawsuit puts OpenAI safety record on trial as ex-staffer testifies
Former AGI readiness lead Rosie Campbell told a federal court OpenAI shifted from research to product, with the Super Alignment team shut down in 2024.

Stick Figure's 'Angels Above Me' goes No. 1 — but AI remixes are stealing the royalties
A seven-year-old reggae track topped iTunes in six countries this week. The band says it isn't getting paid for any of the four viral AI versions.

RedAccess finds 5,000 vibe-coded apps from Lovable, Replit and Base44 leaking data
Roughly 2,000 of the AI-built apps exposed medical records, customer chat logs and corporate strategy decks to anyone with the URL.

CAISI signs Google, Microsoft and xAI to AI safety tests after Mythos scare
Trump's renamed AI safety body locks in pre-deployment evaluations with three frontier labs as a mandatory testing executive order looms.
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