For years, long COVID has been defined almost entirely by what patients report feeling: fatigue, brain fog, memory lapses, a loss of motivation that won’t lift. Doctors have struggled to treat a symptom with no clear physical marker, and the condition has reshaped workplaces as employers scramble to accommodate it. But despite the shared symptoms,
Tech leaders like Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk are calling for a slowdown in the development of AI, and investors on Monday appeared to be taking the notion seriously. Stocks linked to the AI boom tumbled as investors processed the implications of frontier labs hitting the brakes. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell as
In 2025, a California teenager named Adam Raine took his life after ChatGPT allegedly coached him on how to do it. The tragic event inspired “Adam’s Law,” which California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law on Thursday. The law requires AI chatbot companies to adopt safeguards to protect users—especially children—from harmful content and manipulative interactions,
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An AI industry watchdog is accusing OpenAI of violating California’s AI safety law multiple times in the past year, including with the release of its latest model, Astra. A new analysis from the Midas Project—a nonprofit that describes itself as a watchdog “working to ensure that AI benefits everybody, not just the companies developing it”—alleges
Microsoft sums up its AI code of conduct in five words: “People matter more than AI.” As the debate over whether AI could destroy humanity rages on, Microsoft AI on Monday released a draft of its 37-page code of conduct for its “humanist” AI models. It includes basic principles for how the AI should think,
