Relevant AI stories
InfrastructureSep 4, 2026
For a few hours, the most futuristic part of the software stack looked very ordinary: it went down. ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok suffering overlapping disruption matters because these systems are no longer side experiments. They sit inside coding, customer support, document work, search, and everyday decisions.
Policy and SafetySep 3, 2026
A lawsuit alleging that Grok generated new illegal sexual-abuse imagery from known victim material is one of the gravest forms of AI safety failure. This is not a routine moderation dispute; it concerns whether a model can amplify real-world abuse by creating new harmful material tied to an identifiable survivor.
AI in PracticeAug 31, 2026
Military AI adoption is no longer limited to specialized battlefield systems. The Pentagon adding versions of major chatbots to a central AI tools portal shows that defense organizations are also trying to bring general-purpose assistants into ordinary knowledge work.
Policy and SafetyAug 27, 2026
Training data usually sounds like a technical supply-chain issue until a lawsuit forces the public to ask what actually went into a model. The allegations against xAI are serious, and Pagish is treating them as allegations rather than findings. But the larger governance problem is already clear.