Jeffrey Wigand, Who Blew the Whistle on Big Tobacco, Takes a Lot of Calls

By: David Streitfeld

7 November 2026 at 10:00

Jeffrey Wigand, who took on Big Tobacco, counsels insiders who think they have a story about wrongdoing. There are quite a few of them.

Jeffrey Wigand at home in Mount Pleasant, Mich.

OpenAI Pledges to Give Locals More Say in Data Center Projects

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By: Emmy Martin

6 November 2026 at 01:54

The artificial intelligence company pledged to be more collaborative with the communities where it is building its data centers.

OpenAI’s Stargate data center project in Abilene, Texas, is one of the largest under construction in the country.

What Shaped Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s Thinking on A.I.

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By: Ryan Mac， Kalley Huang， Cade Metz and Georgia Gee

6 November 2026 at 17:09

Some call him a doomer. Others see him as a responsible technologist. Here’s how Dario Amodei’s thinking on artificial intelligence was shaped.

OpenAI and Anthropic Set Up ‘War Rooms’ to Fight Disinfo About Midterm Elections

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By: Steven Lee Myers

3 November 2026 at 18:25

OpenAI, Anthropic and other tech companies have vowed to protect Tuesday’s elections from efforts to undermine democracy.

OpenAI employees work inside the company’s Election Operations Center in San Francisco.

House Democrats Criticize Justice Dept. Support of OpenAI in Copyright Suit

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By: Karen Weise

30 October 2026 at 20:30

In a court filing, top Democrats on the Judiciary Committee indicated their support for publishers in a lawsuit led by The New York Times.

The San Francisco offices of OpenAI, which is being sued in federal court by The New York Times and other publishers.

Microsoft’s Profit Jumps 32% Despite Big Increase in Spending

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By: Emmy Martin

29 October 2026 at 16:08

The company’s free cash flow stayed positive in the last quarter even as it spent $45.2 billion on capital expenses like data centers and offered to pay workers to leave.

The Redmond, Wash., campus of Microsoft, which reported $36.6 billion in profit for its latest quarter.

AI Is Finding a Flood of Bugs, and Silicon Valley Is Rushing to Fix Them

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By: Kate Conger

28 October 2026 at 19:14

A.I. has uncovered a horde of software flaws, which engineers are racing to fix before they can be exploited and abused by hackers.

Meet Anthropic’s Seven Founders as the A.I. Firm Prepares for an IPO

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By: Emmy Martin

26 October 2026 at 15:24

Former OpenAI employees started the company in 2021 after disagreements over how to safely build artificial intelligence. An I.P.O. could make them billionaires.

Put Your A.I. Agents to Work with These 5 Killer Tasks

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By: Brian X. Chen

25 October 2026 at 09:01

When you start using Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s dots for these tasks — like applying for jobs and booking hard-to-get restaurant tables — you may never go back.

Put Your A.I. Agents to Work with These 4 Killer Tasks

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By: Brian X. Chen

25 October 2026 at 09:01

When you start using Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s dots for these tasks — like applying for jobs and booking hard-to-get restaurant tables — you may never go back.

A.I. Discovered a Critical Vulnerability in PHP, a Coding Language Behind Many Websites

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By: Dustin Volz

21 October 2026 at 19:04

The disclosure heightened concerns about A.I.’s potential to upend cybersecurity unless shortcomings are addressed.

The website for the French government was temporarily unavailable on Wednesday amid hacking concerns stemming from major bugs in a piece of software used widely across the internet.

What Is PHP? Why Are Government and Business Websites Going Offline?

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By: Karla Adam and Dustin Volz

22 October 2026 at 21:31

A critical security flaw in the programming language underpinning much of the web has prompted a global rush to patch vulnerable systems.

A programmer in Guernica, Spain, on Thursday, working on PHP code, software used throughout the internet.

A.I. and Its Dangers Are Embedded In the Midterm Elections

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By: Tiffany Hsu， Steven Lee Myers and Julian E. Barnes

22 October 2026 at 15:21

The midterms are the first elections in which artificial intelligence is integrated into every major social media platform. Efforts to blunt its harms are uneven.

One in five voters plan to use A.I. to look into a race on their ballot, according a survey released this month by the American Association of Political Consultants.

PHP Security Flaw Sets Off Global Rush to Patch, Leaving Websites Offline

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By: Lynsey Chutel， Amelia Nierenberg and Brian O. Otieno

22 October 2026 at 16:01

Governments and businesses around the world scrambled to prevent hackers from exploiting a vulnerability in PHP, a popular programming language.

Prime Minister Rob Jetten of the Netherlands in Brussels last week. He said that his cabinet was closely monitoring the online vulnerability caused by a security flaw in PHP.

China Criticizes U.S. Ban on DeepSeek A.I. in Government Systems

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By: Ephrat Livni

20 October 2026 at 22:24

The response came after Homeland Security ordered the removal and exclusion of products developed by the Chinese company.

A DeepSeek AI sign at the company’s office in Beijing.

Saudis Aided Family of Engineer Accused of Bugging OpenAI, Prosecutors Say

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By: Emmy Martin

20 October 2026 at 02:27

Saudi officials paid for his wife and son to fly out of the U.S. and offered to cover his bail, according to court filings. A judge ordered the engineer to remain in custody.

The San Francisco offices of OpenAI, whose former employee Abdulrahman Alfozan is charged with trying to secretly record conversations.

OpenAI Engineer, Who Is Charged With Planting Bug, Advised Saudis

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By: Emmy Martin

15 October 2026 at 02:27

The employee, now fired, had said he advised government agencies in Saudi Arabia. He was also listed as a partner at a venture firm with a Saudi prince.

The San Francisco offices of OpenAI. According to a court filing, a thumb-size recording device wrapped in toilet paper was found plugged into the back of a television in an executive conference room.

Rogue A.I. Agents from China Chatted with Researchers

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By: Dylan Freedman

14 October 2026 at 11:00

Researchers discovered that the agents were trying to bypass security controls on websites and made contact with them. A Times reporter was invited to join the discussion.

Tencent is one of the biggest tech companies in China.

22 People Got Together For a Dinner Party. So Did Their A.I. Agents.

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By: Erin Griffith

14 October 2026 at 09:01

As artificial intelligence bots spread, we are increasingly glimpsing how these digital entities interact and what they talk about with one another.

F.B.I. Arrests OpenAI Employee Accused of Planting Bug in Office

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By: Emmy Martin

14 October 2026 at 01:33

OpenAI said that the employee had placed a device built to evade detection and that he had planned to secretly record meetings in other sensitive spaces.

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