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The mystery behind an audio clip that helped upend a Senate race

Late last month, left-wing firebrand Hasan Piker showed his Twitch viewers a social media post quoting a supposed audio recording of a Jewish American politician saying that the primary objective of his campaign was to aid Israel.

Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Worry You More

An aggressive "collective" of OpenAI agents' attack reveals the danger of AI systems that can organize themselves.

Authors Wrangle With Publishers Over $1.5 Billion Anthropic A.I. Settlement

The tech giant must pay $3,000 per pirated book that it used to train its chatbot. Many authors fear they could lose funds to others in the book business.

Kenyans Made a Living Writing College Essays. Then A.I. Arrived.

Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline.

Sam Altman says he's 'a mega Apple fan boy' and is sad they are suing OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman loves Apple, but a legal battle is testing the relationship between the two companies.

ChatGPT bans campaigns from using AI to make ads. They’re doing it anyway.

Artificial intelligence has subtly entered the machinery of the 2026 midterms, with major-party candidates acknowledging in campaign filings and website fine print that they are using the technology to court voters — despite limits imposed by leading AI companies to protect elections from the technology’s risks.

The best time to buy an iPhone may be right this minute

Apple’s new iPhone 18 models expected to be announced next week may cost at least $100 more than last year’s versions and a price bump is coming for some older models, too, according to analyst estimates.

This Week's Top Five Stories in AI

AI Magazine takes a look at some of the biggest stories from the past week, featuring NVIDIA and Hugging Face, Laurel's AI rollout, Deepseek and SK hynix

Court Filings In A.I. Suit Invoke Copyright Law, Culture and Sports

Filings made Friday in The New York Times’s closely watched lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft included a range of copyright law and cultural references.

XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation

The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.

OpenAI's rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them

OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.

OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.