A new Verasight survey finds 69% of Americans support forcing AI giants to hand over 50% of their stock to a public wealth fund, as Senator Bernie Sanders pushes the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act amid warnings that AI could displace over 15 million U.S. workers.
Apple is suing OpenAI after former iPhone engineer Chang Liu allegedly defected to OpenAI's hardware division, stealing a company MacBook, exploiting a software bug to access Apple's internal servers, and using a current Apple employee to continue leaking proprietary secrets.
AI training startup Mercor is in talks to raise funding at a $20 billion valuation after doubling revenue to a $2 billion annualized run rate in just four months, while acquiring AI agent training company Deeptune — signaling a strong rebound after a turbulent early 2026 marked by a data breach and contractor lawsuits.
Microsoft is ditching OpenAI and Anthropic AI models in favor of cheaper, in-house MAI models across products like Excel and Outlook, while simultaneously cutting 4,800 jobs and doubling down on AI expansion — a bold cost-cutting gamble that risks alienating enterprises demanding top-tier AI performance.
AI-generated actor Tilly Norwood is set to star in her first feature film 'Misaligned,' a surreal coming-of-age story developed by U.K. studio Particle6, sparking fierce backlash from SAG-AFTRA, which accuses the technology of using stolen performances to displace human actors.
Uber burns through its entire 2026 AI coding budget in just four months, with COO Andrew Macdonald openly questioning whether the skyrocketing spending is actually delivering value, admitting a clear link between AI tool usage and meaningful consumer features has yet to be established.
Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs — about 2.1% of its global workforce — hitting gaming and commercial divisions hardest, as the tech giant reshapes operations amid an AI-driven transformation that is fundamentally changing how work gets done.
A groundbreaking new study of over 21,000 U.S. companies reveals that heavy AI adopters are actually growing their workforces by 10%, with entry-level hiring surging 12%, directly countering widespread fears that artificial intelligence is destroying jobs.
Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and Sam Altman are uniting behind 'universal basic capital,' a bold policy that would give every American an ownership stake in AI companies to fight extreme wealth inequality, though experts warn the leading version of the plan may carry serious unintended consequences.
Microsoft launches 'The Microsoft Frontier Company,' a $2.5 billion initiative embedding 6,000 engineers inside customer organizations to build and operate AI systems, intensifying an industry race against Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic to help businesses achieve real AI results beyond demos.