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Need Spiritual Guidance? Gurus Join Chatbot Trend as People Turn to AI for Answers

CHENNAI, India — When Kripa Vaidyanathan’s 27-year-old niece died in an Alaska car crash in 2024, her family in Chennai, India, felt shell-shocked. They questioned why this tragedy would befall them when they had such “immense faith in God.”

Asian shares mostly gain after upbeat results for Nvidia and others lift US stocks

BANGKOK — Shares were mostly higher Friday in Asia after Nvidia and other technology stocks led an advance on Wall Street.

Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules

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Judge Blocks Pentagon's Anthropic Blacklist

A federal judge struck down the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk.

AI firm Anthropic wins case challenging Pentagon blacklisting

The artificial intelligence company Anthropic won a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s decision to brand the company a national security risk earlier this year, blocking it from doing business with the entire government and military contractors.

Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.

Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.

Humanoid robots can run fast, but they can’t seem to stop

Chinese humanoid robots have been breaking human athletic records at The World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, including in a 100-meter sprint.

Our ChatGPT and OpenClaw Guides Just Got an Overhaul

New apps, tools, and setup—here’s what we changed and why

The $40 Trillion National Debt Is Growing While Social Security Goes Broke—Because Wealthy Boomers Are Collecting Over $100k in Benefits Per Year

The United States is entering the most expensive phase of retirement. Some of America’s oldest are eligible for more than $100,000 a year in combined Social Security benefits, while remaining as one of the wealthiest generations in the country. The national debt is rising—just passing $40 trillion this month—and Social Security is set to enter insolvency by 2032, meaning it may already be too late for the generations left behind.

OpenAI issues call for 'collective action' on cyber defense: 'We have a limited window'

More than 100 organizations, including Anthropic, joined OpenAI's call for action.

Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion

Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.