The White House and Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, are in a war of words over AI regulation. Why it matters: AI may be the century's most consequential technology, possibly even determining the geopolitical order,

A horribly mangled AI rendition of a rental house on Zillow shows a two-story building in a far-too-flattering light.

ZDNET's key takeaways Microsoft is now testing its own in-house AI image generation model.You can test the new model at the LMArena leaderboard site.The new model will soon be available in Copilot and Bing Image Creator.

A bipartisan group of Senate and House lawmakers are doubling down on legislation aimed at spurring artificial intelligence experimentation at financial regulatory agencies, reintroducing a bill that they say aligns with the White House’s new AI Action Plan.

A viral prank using AI-generated photos of a “homeless man” inside people’s homes has led to 911 calls, police warnings, and backlash over its cruelty.

Over the summer, Microsoft made its first break from collaborating with OpenAI when it unveiled its first two in-house trained models, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview. At that time, Microsoft AI division leader Mustafa Suleyman said in an interview that the company had "an enormous five-year roadmap that we're investing in quarter after quarter.

Microsoft AI just announced its first text-to-image generator, MAI-Image-1, designed and developed in-house. The tech giant, which recently announced its first in-house Microsoft AI models, called the new image generator “the next step on our journey.”

Although Gov. Ron DeSantis for months has hinted at legislation addressing the rapid growth of artificial intelligence, insurance lobbyists argued before a Florida House panel Tuesday that state law already regulates AI in the insurance sphere.

Protesting the country's direction under President Donald Trump, thousands of people brought a street party vibe to the nation’s capital and communities across the U.S. for “ No Kings ” demonstrations,