Latest Artificial Intelligence Updates and Stories
The National Academy of Medicine formally launched its 'Patient Safety in the Era of AI' initiative on March 4, 2026, bringing together health care, technology, and policy leaders to develop a national strategy for leveraging AI to prevent patient harm.
Google has expanded Canvas in AI Mode to all U.S. users in English, enabling anyone to draft documents, build shareable apps, and conduct deep research directly within Google Search using Gemini's AI capabilities.
President Trump convened top AI and tech executives at the White House to sign the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, committing companies to build or buy their own power and cover all infrastructure costs for AI data centers without passing expenses to consumers.
Max Schwarzer, OpenAI's VP of Research who led post-training for GPT-5 and o3, announced his departure to join Anthropic, citing trust in colleagues there and a desire to return to individual contributor research.
In an internal memo reported by The Information, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei accused OpenAI of 'safety theater,' calling Sam Altman's framing of the Pentagon deal 'straight up lies' and a false attempt to present himself as a peacemaker.
The U.S. Department of War terminated its $200M contract with Anthropic after the AI company refused to lift safety restrictions on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, designating it an unprecedented supply-chain risk to national security.
