This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The California Privacy Protection Agency kicked off 2026 by launching a tool that ...

OpenAI has quietly rolled out 'formatting blocks,' which tweak GPT's layout to match the UI of the task it is supposed to execute. ChatGPT has different use cases, including writing emails or blogs.

On October 7, a TikTok account named @fujitiva48 posed a provocative question alongside their latest video. “What are your thoughts on this new toy for little kids?” they asked over 2,000 viewers, who ...

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block have cofounded a new open source organization—the Agentic AI Foundation—to promote standards for artificial intelligence agents. The three companies are also transferring ...

A judge found that immigration agents were using force in a way that “shocks the conscience.” Appellate judges said the restrictions she imposed went too far. By Mitch Smith Reporting from Chicago A ...

A panel of federal judges on Tuesday blocked Texas from using its new congressional map in next year’s midterm elections, saying the new lines were likely unconstitutional racial gerrymanders. The 2-1 ...

A federal court has blocked Texas from using its new congressional map for the 2026 midterm elections, directing the state to revert to its previous districts. The majority opinion said the coalition ...

The US government shutdown has officially reached a month in length, the second longest federal funding gap on record. That makes it a perfect storm for the chaos-fueled Trump administration, which ...

OpenAI is temporarily blocking users of its Sora 2 AI video app from making content that includes Martin Luther King Jr.'s likeness after some people created what the technology company called ...

A top US Army general stationed in South Korea said he’s been turning to an artificial intelligence chatbot to help him think through key command and personal decisions — the latest sign that even the ...

Last month, OpenAI published a usage study showing that nearly 15 percent of work-related conversations on ChatGPT had to deal with “making decisions and solving problems.” Now comes word that at ...

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