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ethics 2026-04-16

AI Companies Trained on Artists' Work. Now Everyone Is Arguing About Who Owns What.

The Supreme Court declined to rule on AI-generated copyright. Anthropic settled with authors for $1.5 billion. Chicken Soup for the Soul sued eight AI companies at once. The law has not kept up.

power 2026-04-15

OpenAI Wants Immunity. Anthropic Wants Accountability. One AI Bill Will Decide Which Vision Wins.

Illinois SB 3444 has cracked the AI industry's safety consensus in two, and the fault line runs straight through the question of who pays when an AI kills someone.

power 2026-04-13

OpenAI's Deal with the Future

A 13-page policy paper proposes robot taxes and wealth funds. The fine print backs a bill that shields AI companies from lawsuits when their systems kill people.

power 2026-04-11

Supremely Intelligent Teenagers

Seventy-nine percent of enterprises are running AI agents. Eleven percent have security approval for what those agents can do. The gap is not a growing pain.

power 2026-04-11

The Company That Beat OpenAI Is Now Afraid of Nvidia

Anthropic just surpassed OpenAI in revenue and valuation. Its next problem is that both companies depend on a chip supply they do not control.

ethics 2026-04-10

OpenAI Is Backing a Bill That Would Let It Cause Mass Death Without Full Liability. This Week It Got Sued for Causing a Stalking.

SB 3444 shields AI firms from damages in catastrophic harm cases, if they publish safety reports. The same week OpenAI endorsed it, a lawsuit dropped alleging ChatGPT deepened a man's delusions until he stalked a woman.

decision 2026-04-08

OpenAI's Robin Hood Pitch

The company racing hardest to automate the global workforce has published a 13-page plan to compensate everyone it displaces. which is either the most responsible move in AI history or the most successful rebranding.