Senator Blackburn Pulls Support for AI Moratorium in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Amid Backlash

After critics called the bill a “get-out-of-jail-free card” for Big Tech that could make it nearly impossible to rein in social media platforms, Senator Marsha Blackburn killed her own compromise.

Here Is Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta’s ‘Superintelligence’ Team

After a poaching frenzy that’s brought in talent from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, Zuckerberg announced a team of nearly two dozen researchers in an internal memo.

Microsoft Says Its New AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors

The tech giant poached several top Google researchers to help build a powerful AI tool that can diagnose patients and potentially cut health care costs.

OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: ‘Someone Has Broken Into Our Home’

As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they’re ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.

OpenAI Loses 4 Key Researchers to Meta

Mark Zuckerberg has been working to poach talent from rival labs for his new superintelligence team.

OpenAI’s Unreleased AGI Paper Could Complicate Microsoft Negotiations

The partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft in many ways hinges on the definition of artificial general intelligence, creating a tension that has spilled over into OpenAI research that has not been made public.

Substack Is Having a Moment—Again. But Time Is Running Out

While star reporters continue to flock to Substack, subscription fatigue is only getting worse.

No One Is in Charge at the US Copyright Office

During a wild time for copyright law, the US Copyright Office has no one at the helm—and no one knows when that will change.

Disney Just Threw a Punch in a Major AI Fight

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we explore Disney and Universal’s lawsuit against Midjourney, which could be consequential for the future of how intellectual property is treated in the AI era.

Meta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case—but There’s a Catch

A federal judge ruled that Meta did not violate the law when it trained its AI models on 13 authors’ books.